Vernice "Flygirl" Armour
Vernice Armour was born in Chicago, IL in 1973 and grew up in Memphis, TN. In 1991, she graduated from John Overton High School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she was very active in the music program, class Vice President, and a member of Mu Alpha Theta (the mathematics honor society) and The National Honor Society. Vernice marched in the military boot steps of both her dad, Clarence Jackson, a former Marine, who married Vernice’s mother, Authurine, and her father, Gaston C. Armour Jr. of Chicago, a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserves. In 1993, the future combat pilot enlisted in the Army Reserves and a few months later joined the Army ROTC program while enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).
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