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Entering the active-duty Navy after graduation, Gabrielle attended the United States. Navy Flight School at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida from 1998 to 2000, earning her Naval Aviator Wings.
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She is also a general-assignment reporter for Shepard Smith Reporting. While attending Mount Vernon High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, Gabrielle was named a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. She is a 1997 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, earning a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering.
She is also qualified with an Instrument rating and as a commercial pilot.
She served in the United States Navy for twelve years and was a fighter pilot of the single-seat F/A-18 "Hornet," with combat deployment from United States Ship George Washington. Her call sign as a pilot was "Flower".
Additional duties were as a landing signals officer (LSO) and as a squadron public affairs officer She also served as an intelligence operations officer during Operation Enduring Freedom, and while in Afghanistan she was embedded with a Navy Sea, Air, Land unit conducting intelligence operations.
She was also a defense foreign liaison officer
After leaving the Navy, Gabrielle attended the New York Film Academy in 2009, receiving a digital journalism certificate. She then worked for National Broadcasting Company News (2010-2011) in Washington, District of Columbia where she shot, wrote, edited, and produced packages for National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, The Today Show, North websites, and web spots. As a digital journalist and editor (Avid), Gabrielle covered stories for the National Broadcasting Company Nightly News web page and nationwide National Broadcasting Company affiliates.
She conducted interviews for White House and Political Correspondents and Nightly News (including the President, the first female governor in Afghanistan, and Grand Old Party Presidential nominees).
In September 2011, Gabrielle moved to San Diego, California, and became a military reporter for KNSD-television (National Broadcasting Company 7), using her then-married name Lea Sutton. She joined Fox News Channel in New York City in December 2013.
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