By Amie Gordon For Mailonline
Published: 12:40 GMT, 20 February 2019 | Updated: 13:04 GMT, 20 February 2019
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An RAF engineer has become the most senior female military officer in the British Armed Forces in an 'historic moment' today.
Royal Air Force engineer Sue Gray has been promoted to the rank of Air Marshal, and will take up the role of director general of the Defence Safety Authority in March.
The 56-year-old said she was 'incredibly proud' to become the most senior woman in the UK armed forces and the first ever female three-star commander.
Sue Gray, a Royal Air Force engineer, who has been promoted to the rank of Air Marshal, making her the most senior female military officer in the British Armed Forces
Then-Air Vice Marshall Sue Gray with Air Marshall Sir David Walker, and Group Captain Mark Heffron accompanying the Queen on her visit to the Royal Air Force Club in London to mark its centenary year in October 2018
Air Marshal Gray joined the RAF in 1985 after gaining a degree in electronics from Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic.
Commissioned as an engineer, she has climbed through the ranks during a 28-year career.
She has twice served on the frontline in Iraq, in the First Gulf War in 1991 and again in 2003 as chief engineer for the Joint
