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Welcome to episode six of the Women of the Military Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Amanda Huffman interviews Mandy Snell. Mandy faced gender discrimination in the military due to becoming a single mom early in her career. After graduating from the Naval Academy. She served in the military (10 years on active duty and […]
This week’s interview is with Vietnam veteran, Janet Appling. Janet was an active-duty Army Officer during the Vietnam War but was never given the chance to deploy overseas. Listen here. Military Service Janet served in the Army during Vietnam. She never deployed overseas but made critical contributions to the change allowing women to be part […]
Here is part two of Cynthia Cline’s interview about being a military officer in the Air Force. Her husband is also in the Air Force. He is a pilot. In this half of the interview Cynthia shares how they met and the struggles that they have to overcome to being married in the Air Force. […]
In today’s episode, we talked to one of the Army’s female military leaders, Tiye Young. She is a Charlotte native currently serving in the North Carolina National Guard after serving on active duty in the Army for over six years. She is also a cancer survivor and is about to celebrate her one-year anniversary of […]
Why Women of the Military Welcome to Women of the Military Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Amanda Huffman will share the why behind the podcast, where the idea came from, and why I picked military women as the focus point. It is always important to know the why behind the story. So, I’m starting […]
Letter home from my deployment in 2010: Pumpkins in Afghanistan We don’t have pumpkins yet, but they are growing like weeds and we have flowers so hopefully soon we will have little baby pumpkins. It is crazy how much fun taking care of the garden is. Even though it is hot and going back and […]
I have decided to be a part of the 31 days of writing, which means writing every day in October. The theme for me was easy being a military veteran and spouse “31 Days of Military Life.” The topic needed to be broad and narrow. I hope I can share my insights into what being […]
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 […]
