E-mail a friendJuly 23, 2007
U.S. Marine combat pilot Vernice Armour talks about being a role model to future generations. Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, discusses building a movement with young people at the center.
Vernice Armour
Vernice Armour
The first African American female combat pilot discusses growing up in a military family. (2:46)
As the first-ever African American female combat pilot, Marine Capt. Vernice Armour is part of U.S. military history. She flies a missile-equipped Super Cobra helicopter and has served two tours in Iraq. During college, the multi-sport athlete joined the Army Reserves and took private flying lessons. After graduation, Armour worked as a police officer before joining the Marines. She was admitted to Officer Candidate School on an aviation contract and finished at the top of her flight school class.
Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel is founder-executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that gets young people of different faith backgrounds talking with one another. Patel has worked as an organizer, teacher and artist on four continents and, in '02, was named one of 'thirty social visionaries under thirty changing the world.'" He completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. Patel is a frequent contributor to numerous Op-Ed pages and author of Acts of Faith.