She needs to be number one to realise her dream of becoming flight surgeon. Beeding had barely informed flight surgeon Capt. However it would require the approval of the base flight surgeon. Lonnie spent several years as a NASA flight surgeon. He served as a clinic supervisor and flight surgeon at Redstone Arsenal. Graveline was granted the aeronautical rating of flight surgeon in February 1957. A permanent flight surgeon position and administration officer was added to the team. Included in the group of pilots was a chaplain and flight surgeon. The civilian equivalent of the flight surgeon is the Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). Novello was married to former US Navy flight surgeon and psychiatrist, Joseph R. Novello. Back in Pearl Harbor, Best was examined by the flight surgeon. The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was Lt. Oliver Seaman, an Air Force flight surgeon. He served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force. He subsequently trained as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force.