Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Her journey began more than a decade prior: When she was a child, she remembers seeing helicopters flying over her home and being both perplexed and intrigued.

"I thought they were the weirdest things ever," said Alexander. "It was amazing to me how they could just defy gravity like that." (Video by Austin Rooney, All Hands Magazine)

Read the whole story: http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?issue=3&id=102633