I see from the title, you’re looking for Army pilots, but I know women have been flying advances fighter jets in the Navy for at least 20 years. I don’t believe they are allowed to fly in combat, which would make no sense since it still costs an arm and a leg to train a Naval aviator. Lt. Kara Hultgreen was killed in an F-14 crash in Oct. 1994, while landing on a carrier.
Since the army has had a very limited fix wing program since Vietnam, I assume you’re looking for a helicopter pilot.
This question, and similar ones about US military women, always irks me. If you are a soldier, in uniform, carrying a live weapon in performance of your duties in a designated hostile/combat zone, you are a combat soldier/pilot/whatever. Period. Doesn’t matter if you’re a truck driver or a super ninja, male or female. You are a combat soldier.
You think a mortar/rocket or IED gives a damn what your sex is?
Sorry, didn’t mean to vent, but every US Military female I saw in Iraq or Afghanistan over the last five years had a weapon (and usually body armor) on or nearby. Anybody telling me they’re not “real” combat soldiers is going to likely end up with a fat lip.
They deserve as much respect as any male who served, and more respect than any chickenhawk politico from whichever party.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
PS: Clearly I have some issues! 
While not in the WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Flight Squadron) at that time, Cornelia Fort was giving flight instruction as a civilian at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on December 7th. She survived, and went on to a distinguished career with the WAFS until her fatal crash in March, 1943…
I have not yet been able to find an account of a WAC, WAFS, or WASP member that encountered enemy fire while ferrying planes or other tasks they performed. As some of them served overseas, per the wiki for WASP, including places like New Guinea and Southeast England during the Normandy invasion, this is surprising.
I don’t know who ggimlick is but ggimlick is right, I was deployed to Grenada in 1983. It was kept quiet. The Army is a different place today, no one (who matters) gets upset anymore. General Mackmull, who as Commander of the 18th Airborne Corps approved my deployment, retired to the same community where my Mom lived. My last name is no longer Henderson and I got out of the US Army after going to the first Gulf war.
Nice a living, breathing cite. Welcome to the Dope. Please share some stories about being a woman and flying combat in the Military.
Capt
My friend’s Mother did exactly this in WWII (in NG) , and she claimed that they did take fire, but since their planes were not loaded with ammo, all they did was run. And, by that time, most of our planes were faster, and the best IJN aces were dead. So getting away wasn’t that hard.
She was arguing for her admittance as a full member of the VFW (my dad supported her) so that’s how the story came out.