As the first female African American combat pilot in military history, Marine Corps Captain Vernice Armour’s limits are sky high. 

Originally hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Armour grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.  She attended Middle Tennessee State University, where as a student, she enlisted in the Army Reserves in the spring of 1993, and enrolled in Army ROTC that fall.
Before graduating from college, Armour accomplished her childhood dream of becoming a police officer in 1996.  She went on to become the first African American woman and second woman ever on the Nashville Police Department's motorcycle squad.

Still in search of the next challenge, she was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in December 1998. Armour earned her wings in July 2001, ranked No. 1 out her class of 12 and of the last 200 to graduate becoming the United States Marine Corps’ first African American female pilot.

After completing flight school, Armour was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton near San Diego, California.  There she trained in the AH-1W SuperCobra, a twin-engine attack helicopter.  During her time at Camp Pendleton, she was named 2001 Female Athlete of the Year, won the Camp’s annual Strongest Warrior Competition twice, and to top it all off, was a running back for the San Diego Sunfire women’s professional football team.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, she was recognized as America’s First African-American Female Combat Pilot by the Department of Defense, and completed two combat tours of duty in the Persian Gulf before departing the Marine Corps in 2007.

She now travels around the world, speaking and motivating people to achieve their dreams and excel at whatever they chose to do.