The following year, she was accepted for commissioning under the Officer Candidate Training Program, posted to North Bay, Ontario, graduating as an Air Weapons Controller in 1974.
In 1979, as the Canadian Forces introduced a trial program to employ women in traditionally men’s roles, she was accepted into a pilot training course.
Brasseur, along with Nora Bottomley and Leah Mosher, graduated from Canadian Forces Flight Training School in Portage la Prairie.
[1] The forces subsequently began a trial allowing women to fly fighter jets, which Brasseur was accepted into in June 1988, along with Captain Jane Foster.
In the June 1 edition of the magazine, Brasseur claimed that throughout her 21-year career she faced unwanted sexual advances, was raped by her enlisted boyfriend and was coerced into having sex with her flight teacher.