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Seeing the World With the Navy – Episode 9 Welcome to Episode 9 of Women of the Military Podcast. In today’s episode, I interviewed Shakeia Kegler. Shakeia joined the Navy in 2011 and was sent to Japan for her first assignment. The day she landed in Japan she learned her ship the USS George Washington […]
Want to learn what military engineers do? Check out the story of Amanda Huffman who served as an Air Force Civil Engineer for six years. She now shares the stories of other women who have served in the military in hopes of helping women who are considering military life. What do military engineers do? Amanda […]
Are you leaving the military? You might think the transition after leaving the military and going from military to civilian is an easy one. But for me and many of the women I have talked to on the Women of the Military Podcast transitioning out of the military is anything but easy. Transitions are hard, […]
September 11th was like a rock being dropped into a pond of my life. It started out a big event that happened, but the ripple that started changed my life completely. For so many people the effects of September 11th were felt right away as people lost family and friends on that day. Our military […]
My family attended a ceremony a few months ago. The announcer asked people who were military veterans and military spouses to raise their hand. My hand went up next to my husbands, as did my blood pressure. You see I am a military spouse. And I would be the first to tell you how hard it […]
My journey from military to motherhood didn’t go quite like I expected. Go and have children they said… You can stay at home with the kids and life will be easy… So…I took the bait, but they were wrong. So very wrong. Before I left the military behind to become a stay at home mom […]
Leaving the military was the easy choice on paper. My husband’s and my career fields made it hard to be stationed together. I would likely have to deploy soon after my son was born. Other miscellaneous travel was to be expected. Just to name a few of the reasons. The list continued on… It was […]
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 […]
