Army Pilot Made Combat History During Gulf War

On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War, Maj. Marie Rossi-Cayton commanded a company of Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters deployed to Saudi Arabia. No American woman had ever flown, let alone led, helicopters into war before, but Rossi-Cayton’s Chinooks had orders to fly soldiers and supplies with the 101st Airborne Division into Iraq when the U.S. invasion began.