They said the canyon was a death trap and ordered her to stand down. She walked to her A-10, pulled on her gloves, and a young crew chief handed her a patch stitched with one word no one in the command tent believed.
PART 2 The wheels left the runway and Major Elaine Kit pushed the throttles forward until the airframe shuddered. The Warthog climbed through the late afternoon haze like a beast shaking off sleep. Below, the base shrank into rectangles of concrete and hangar bays. Ahead, the Corangar peaks rose out of the earth like a…
