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By Michael W. Chapman | April 29, 2021 | 10:56am EDT
Gina Ortiz Jones, nominee for Undersecretary of the Air Force. (Wikimedia Commons)
(CNS News) On Tuesday, April 27, Democratic President Joe Biden announced that he had nominated Gina Ortiz Jones to be the Undersecretary of the Air Force, the No. 2 position at that military branch. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Jones will be the first openly gay, Filipino woman to serve in that post.
Jones, 40, went to Boston University through its Air Force ROTC program. Once in the Air Force, she served as an intelligence officer and was deployed to Iraq where she supported air-support operations. Jones also earned a Master s degree at the School of Advanced Military Studies of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
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