Capt. Rebecca Lobach, left, and now-Capt. Bilal Kordab pose December 2018 after Lobach took the oath of enlistment into the North Carolina Army National Guard in Raleigh, N.C. Lobach died while ...

Lobach, a 28-year-old aviation officer assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion, was the only female pilot on the ... Lobach enlisted in the state's Army National Guard in December 2018.

Jo Ellis, a transgender pilot with the Virginia National Guard, released a statement on Facebook as “proof of life” in response to viral posts online falsely identifying her as one of the pilots of a ...