Lashanda holmes biography of michael

In 2010, La’Shanda R. Holmes Hawkins became the first African American female helicopter pilot in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). As an officer in that uniformed service, she has amassed more than 2,000 flight hours while helping to carry out search-and-rescue missions; law enforcement operations; and various other duties.

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Hawkins, who was born in 1985, grew up in North Carolina. Her formative years were characterized by considerable turbulence and hardship. Hawkins and her younger brother were placed in the foster care system and, in a 2011 interview originally published on the website WomensColleges.org, she recounted her drive and determination to surmount all of the hurdles she faced early on in life.

“I was used to people telling me what I couldn’t do,” Hawkins asserted in that interview. “We moved around a lot, and I think it fueled my ambition to live better and work harder. It just gave me more motivation to succeed.”

This motivation resulted in Hawkins graduatin