please welcome kathy stearman. [applause] you can hear me. so amy is going to let me ask the first question. first of all i want to say to you amy thank you for everything you have done for our country and your service and for all that you have done for young women who follow you and all those little girls who can look at amy and not ask the question, will i be able to do that? will i be able to fly back f-18? those little girls can say i can do that and that's because of amy soaked givee her a big hand for that. [applause] my first question is this. for me and for i would say most people in this room we are never going to fly in fa 18, right? the closest we will ever come is watching the new tom cruise movie where he's not really flying the plane. so i've really want to know and amy touched on this in her book about flying in fa 18 but i want to know. i want to know how it feelsow is early. did it feel like you just want to scream and you want to bomb and does your stomach does want to come out of your throat? tell us what it's like want to

in today's your recounts some of the global experiences that shaped her life, please welcome kathy stearman. so can yes, you can hear me i can tell you can hear me. so amy is going to let me ask the first question and i think you all are going to love it. but first of all, i just want to say to you amy. thank you for everything that you've done for our country for your service and for all that you've done for young women who follow you and all those little girls who can look at amy and and not ask the question. will i be able to do that? will i be able to fly that fa 18 those little girls can say no i can do that and that's because of amy. so give her a big hand for that. thank you. so my first question is this for me and for i would say most people in this room. we are never going to fly an fa 18, right? probably the closest we're ever going to come is watching the new tom cruise movie where he's not really flying the plane. so i really want to know an amy touched on this a little bit in her book about what it's like to fly an fa 18. i want to know more i want to know how that feels viscer