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September 11th came this year and for the first time in over a decade I wasn’t in uniform. I was a cadet in the Reserve Officer Training Corp for four years and then served six years as an officer in the United States Air Force. For this year, some reason it hit me that this […]
This is the story of my first mission in Afghanistan. I spent nine months in Afghanistan and four months in Indiana for training. I almost spent the twenty-fifth year of my life training for or being in Afghanistan. When I left for training when I was two weeks before my twenty-fifth birthday and came back […]
We learned there are lots of things in Dayton, Ohio for the four years we were stationed there. Part of military life is living in different parts of the world. My last assignments in the military took me to Dayton, Ohio. While in Dayton my husband and I went from a couple to a family […]
I decided a fun way to share my deployment would be through sharing Afghanistan through pictures. At the time I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have a Public Affairs (PA) team with us on every mission. I have so many pictures from my deployment. Many of my friends have less than twenty pictures […]
I thought I knew what it meant to be in a combat zone. You see I deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 and even got shot at on a mission off base. Then I became a mom. I thought this would be easy when compared to my deployment. I mean I had gone to war. But […]
Going home from a deployment is a lot of hurry up and wait. You probably didn’t realize the process it takes to get you from your deployed location and back home. I was in Afghanistan and the process to get from my Forward Operating Base and back to the United States was almost a three-week […]
