Vernice Armour

About

America's first black female combat pilot. Once she left active duty she was posted as program liaison officer for the Manpower and Reserve Affairs Equal Opportunity Branch. She left the military in 2007, officially retiring and as a private citizen, she works as an established Keynote and Inspirational speaker focusing on leadership and empowerment of women and other employees in their places of work and amongst peers in their respective career fields. 

Before Fame

She flew and survived the Iraqi conflict while flying the AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopter. She served in the United States Marine Corps from 1993 to 2007. She was born in Chicago but raised in Memphis, TN and graduated from Overton High School of Creative and Performing Arts as a member of the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honor society as well as the National Honor Society and was elected her class vice-president as a senior. Following graduation she enlisted in the military and attended flight school.

Trivia

Her Instagram account has over 10,000 followers at the account handle verniceflygirlarmour. Her grid features highlights from her life as a mother, celebrity, icon amongst black women, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. Her Twitter account has over 7,000 followers and features inspirational content focused on activism and equality. 

Family Life

Her parents Gaston Armour Jr. and Authurine Armour divorced when she was young. Her mother remarried and both her father and stepfather were military veterans that helped influence and inspire her to join the armed forces. Her grandfather even served in the Montford Point Marine, the first regiment to enlist black soldiers into the Marine Corps, serving from 1942 to 1949. She has a wife and two children, a boy and a daughter.  

Associated With

At an event where she was speaking in May 2022 she met and interviewed Yvonne Orji about what makes her gutsy and posted the video to her Instagram account.