Susan Helms

**Susan Jane Helms** (an haife ta a ranar 26 ga Fabrairu, 1958) Laftanar Janar ce ta Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Amurka mai ritaya kuma 'yar sama jannatin NASA . Ita ce kwamanda, rundunar sojojin sama ta 14 (Manufar Sojojin Sama); kuma kwamanda, rundunar hadin gwiwa ta sashin aiki ta sararin samaniya a sansanin sojojin sama na Vandenberg da ke California . 

Helms ma'aikacin jirgin ruwa ne a ayyukan jigilar jiragen sama guda biyar kuma mazaunin Tashar Sararin Samaniya ta Duniya (ISS) ne sama da watanni biyar a shekara ta 2001.

Helms ya yi ritaya a hukumance daga rundunar sojin saman Amurka a shekarar 2014.

A shekarar 2020, an zaɓe ta a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Injiniya ta Ƙasa don nasarorin da ta samu a shirye-shiryen sararin samaniya na farar hula da na soja.

## Rayuwa ta sirri
An haifi Helms a Charlotte, North Carolina, amma tana ɗaukar Portland, Oregon, a matsayin garinsu. Tana jin daɗin piano da sauran ayyukan kiɗa, gudu, tafiya, karatu, kwamfuta, da girki . Tana zaune a Colorado Springs, Colorado. Iyayenta, Laftanar Kanar (mai ritaya, USAF) Pat da Dori Helms, suna zaune a Denver, Colorado . Tana da 'yan'uwa mata uku.

## Aikin soja
Helms ta kammala karatun digiri na farko a fannin injiniyan jiragen sama daga Kwalejin Sojojin Sama ta Amurka a shekarar 1980. Ta sami aikinta kuma aka tura ta zuwa sansanin sojojin sama na Eglin, Florida, a matsayin injiniyan raba makamai na F-16 tare da dakin gwaje-gwajen makamai na rundunar sojin sama. A shekarar 1982, ta zama babbar injiniyar raba makamai na F-15 . A shekarar 1984, an zabe ta don halartar makarantar digiri na biyu. Ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyyar jiragen sama da ilmin taurari daga Jami'ar Stanford a shekarar 1985 kuma an tura ta a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin jiragen sama a Kwalejin Sojojin Sama ta Amurka. A shekarar 1987, ta halarci Makarantar Gwajin Jiragen Sama ta Sojojin Sama a Edwards Air Force Base, California . Bayan kammala shekara guda na horo a matsayin injiniyan gwajin jiragen sama, an tura Helms a matsayin Jami'in Musayar Amurka zuwa Cibiyar Gwajin Injiniyan Jiragen Sama, a sansanin sojojin sama na Kanada Cold Lake da ke Alberta, Kanada, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin injiniyan gwajin jiragen sama da kuma jami'ar aiki a jirgin CF-18 . Tana kula da haɓaka tsarin sarrafa jirgin sama na CF-18 ga Sojojin Kanada lokacin da aka zaɓe ta don shirin ' yan sama jannati .

Bayan shekaru 12 na aikin NASA wanda ya haɗa da kwanaki 211 a sararin samaniya, Helms ta koma Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Amurka a watan Yulin 2002 don ta sami muƙami a Hedikwatar Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Amurka (USAF Space Command) . Bayan ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar sashen Sashen Kula da Bukatu na Hukumar Kula da Sararin Samaniya ta Sojojin Sama a Colorado Springs, Colorado, ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar kwamandan rundunar soji ta 45 a sansanin sojojin sama na Patrick kusa da Cape Canaveral, Florida . Daga nan ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar darakta a ayyuka (Training Technical) na Hukumar Ilimi da Horar da Jiragen Sama a sansanin sojojin sama na Randolph kusa da San Antonio, Texas . Helms ta yi aiki a ƙungiyar aikin Komawa Jirgin Sama bayan hatsarin Columbia .  An ɗaukaka ta zuwa Brigadier Janar a watan Yunin 2006 kuma ta zama kwamandan rundunar soji ta 45 a ranar da aka ɗaukaka ta. 

An ɗaukaka Helms zuwa Manjo Janar a watan Agusta na 2009.  Ta yi aiki a matsayin darektan tsare-tsare da manufofi, Rundunar Dabaru ta Amurka, Sansanin Sojojin Sama na Offutt, Nebraska. Ta kasance mai alhakin kai tsaye ga kwamandan Rundunar Dabaru ta Amurka don haɓakawa da aiwatar da manufofin tsaron ƙasa da jagora; dabarun soja da jagora; manufofin aiki na sararin samaniya da makamai da manufofi; da kuma koyarwar haɗin gwiwa kamar yadda suka shafi umarni da aiwatar da ayyukanta. Ta kuma kasance mai alhakin haɓaka shirin yaƙi na dabarun ƙasar, shirye-shiryen tallafi na dabarun yaƙi ga kwamandojin yaƙi na wasan kwaikwayo da kuma shirin gaggawa don aikin yajin aiki na duniya.

A watan Janairun 2011, an ƙara wa Helms matsayi zuwa Laftanar Janar kuma ya karɓi aiki a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojin sama ta 14 (Manufar Sojojin Sama), Kwamandan Sararin Sama na Rundunar Sojan Sama da Kwamanda, Kwamandan Sashen Aiki na Haɗin gwiwa don Sararin Sama, Kwamandan Dabaru na Amurka [1] [2] [3] [4]

## Manazarta