The Navy introduced Friday thatCapt Amy Bauernschmidt will certainly think command of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) noting the very first time a women commander will certainly lead the team of among the Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered attack aircraft carrier.

Bauernschmidt will certainly take command of Lincoln this summertime, upon conclusion of the nuclear power, air travel, and also management training called for of warship COs.

“I am incredibly honored and humbled to be selected,” claimedBauernschmidt “I love leading Sailors and I take that responsibility extremely seriously.”

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Bauernschmidt was additionally the very first woman to function as the executive police officer aboard a warship, a setting she held from September 2016 to January 2019, additionally on the Lincoln.

Bauernschmidt hails Milwaukee, Wisconsin and also finished from the United Stated Naval Academy in May 1994, the very first finishing course in which ladies were permitted to offer aboard contender ships and also airplane. She was marked as a Naval Aviator in 1996 and also offered with a number of helicopter armadas throughout her profession. She has actually formerly regulated the “Spartans” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70 and also aquatic transportation dock USS San Diego (LPD-22).

Reference: navy.mil