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Rear Admiral Nora W. Tyson was the first female NFO to command a warship, the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan ( LHD-5 ), and the first female naval officer to command an aircraft carrier strike group, Carrier Strike Group Two, aboard the USS George H. W.

Bush ( CVN-77 ).

She previously flew in the land-based EC-130Q Hercules and the E-6 Mercury TACAMO aircraft.