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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Soon after he entered office, President Biden issued an executive order allowing transgender people to serve in the military. It was the latest in a long series of shifts in who can serve and who can't. Women only recently were able to serve in certain ranks. And it wasn’t until 1993, that congress lifted a ban against women flying in combat. But women actually started flying military aircraft much earlier than that, 5 decades earlier. During World War II. They were known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots… the WASPs.

Music this week from Blue Dot Sessions, “Flying” by the Beatles, and “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine,” performed by Blanche Ring in 1910.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnikin, each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:03.9	My colleagues and I unpack what's happening in a very complicated world.
0:08.6	You'll hear from the New Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers, Jelani Cobb on race
0:13.2	and justice, Jill Lapor on American history, Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolentino on culture,
0:19.2	Bill McKibbin on climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news, listen to the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever
0:27.7	you get your podcasts.
0:30.8	Radio Tapia.
0:34.0	From PRX.
0:35.6	From PRX's Radio Tapia, this is Radio Diaries.
0:38.2	I'm Joe Richmond.
0:43.2	Today, flag rolls.
0:44.6	I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going.
0:51.0	Soon after he entered office, President Biden issued an executive order allowing
0:55.4	transgender people to serve in the military.
0:58.7	It was the latest in the long series of shifts in who can serve and who can't.
1:03.0	Not long ago, of course, fighting in combat was for men only, and it wasn't until 1993
1:07.9	that Congress lifted a ban against women flying in combat.
1:11.5	Jeannie Levitt became America's first female fighter pilot.
1:14.8	She flew a total of 300 combat hours over Iraq and Afghanistan.
1:19.3	But women actually started flying military aircraft much earlier than that.
1:23.5	Five decades earlier, during World War II.
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