This post contains affiliate links My military career led me to directly connect to international development. As such, I have been given some amazing opportunities. One of these being sharing my experience with The Engineering Career Coach. Leading up to the interview questions were sent back and forth. Since I write about my deployment experience often […]
Category Archives: Military Life
A Hidden Village in Afghanistan
Michelle Obama recently announced that women veterans should tell our stories: “(Your stories) are so worth telling, and our girls, our granddaughters need to hear them. If you are a woman veteran, if you have worn the uniform and served bravely, I want to ask you to stand tall.” – That is part of why I […]
Some days I forget I’m the lucky one
As a stay at home mom sometimes I forget I’m the lucky one as a stay at home mom. My husband has been gone for almost two weeks. Currently, he is sitting in an airport waiting for a delayed flight hoping to be home before we wake up tomorrow. It was a long two weeks. […]
Honoring Veterans by Sharing your Beauty
When I was in the military one of the things that was hardest for me to adjust to was having my hair within military regulations every day. I am not very good at doing my hair in general and to keep flyaways pinned down and a neat bun in place meeting military regulations was not […]
5 Tips for Transitioning from Airman to Mom
This post was sponsored on behalf of Lincoln Military Housing, but the opinions are my own. My experience with the transition from being a career woman to staying at home meant I left the military and a huge part of my identity. But I don’t think my experience is really all that different from other […]
Part 5: PRT Challenges
Today I’m going to talk about some of the PRT challenges we faced. This is the last piece for my PRT series. If you missed Part 1, start here. It will be mainly a look from the engineering/female standpoint. There were a number of other issues faced by the team. I did not go into […]
Deployment Living: Afghanistan
This letter was sent home during my deployment to Afghanistan in 2010: Soon after the first mission, our team headed out to our final location Forward Operating Base (FOB) Morales Frazier. I lived in a tent (an Alaskan also known as SSS) with six other girls, I share my bunk but have plenty of room […]
PRT Missions (Part 4)
The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) went on missions “outside the wire” (off base) for many different reasons. Most often the PRT Engineers had some part to play in whatever PRT missions happened. The main reason the PRT Engineers had to go off base was to complete site visits of the various projects located throughout […]
Part 3: PRT Civil Engineers
I did a briefing shortly after arriving home from Afghanistan about my deployment on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) as PRT Civil Engineers. You may have been reading my stories or maybe this is your first-time visit. Either way, here is a deeper look into what I was doing while deployed to Afghanistan. If you missed […]
Part 2: The Province of Kapisa
I did a briefing shortly after arriving home from Afghanistan about my deployment on a PRT. This is a five-part series giving a little extra detail about what I did while I was deployed overseas and where I was. This is all about the province of Kapisa. If you missed Part 1: Defining a PRT […]
