Article: AVIATOR TO LEAVE NAVY AFTER PLAYBOY MAGAZINE APPEARANCE.(FRONT)

Byline: JACK DORSEY, STAFF WRITER

Navy Lt. Frederica Spilman most likely will leave the service on Thursday with a ``poor fitness report,'' an assessment that may differ with the evidence presented to 3.4 million readers of Playboy magazine.

``Unfit'' is not what Spilman, 28, appears to be.

The first woman aviator assigned to fly as a navigator aboard the ES-3 ``Shadow'' electronic surveillance plane, Spilman is depicted out of uniform in a six-page pictorial in Playboy's June issue, which hit newsstands Tuesday.

While Playboy has featured women from many professions - nurses, teachers, police officers and firefighters - this is the ...

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