Sarah Deal

Lieutenant Colonel Sarah Deal Burrow, United States Marine Corps, is the first female Marine who selected for Naval aviation training in 1993, and subsequently became the Marine Corps' first female aviator in 1995.

Early life

Sarah Deal was born to Richard and Marjorie Deal, in Bowling Green, Ohio on 14 September 1969. The daughter of a Marine, she grew up in Pemberville, Ohio. She was an athlete, participating in cross country, track and basketball, as well as 4H and her church youth group. She also worked on a dairy farm and raised one pig a year she would sell at auction. Deal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace flight technology from Kent State University in 1992.

As of July 2016, she was a LtCol serving in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Personal life Deal is married to Philip M. Burrow, a former Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot she met while in flight school. They are the parents of twins Troy and Brandon Burrow and Eric Burrow.

Honors Deal was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1999.