Day 25 – Enjoy One of my favorite memories from being deployed was Easter Sunday. My mom sent me an Easter basket full of goodies. Bunny ears, candies, eggs, and a few extra things. I had a plan, get up early, and hide eggs in the office for a little bit of fun. We didn’t […]
Category Archives: Military Life
Dare to believe
Day 24 – Dare I did not think I could do what the military was asking me to do. I could not believe that somehow I was not only supposed to go to a foreign country but also interact with the people in a culture I did not understand and danger seemed to be at […]
Looking Back At Military Life
Did you know a year ago this month I went from holding the title of Captain and served my last day in the Air Force? It is easy to look back at military life and reflect on all the things that have happened in this past year. Time has flown by. It is still unreal […]
Training for War: Unmet Expectations
I didn’t really know what to expect when I left for training for war to deploy to Afghanistan. And then when I left training I thought I knew what to expect when I got to Afghanistan. But I found out my expectations from training and reality were not the same. The Journey Begins I left […]
Honor, Duty, Sacrafice: Giving It All
When I think of honor I think of all those men and women who gave their life while serving their country. Some people have lost their lives in war, others in training missions, and others in experiments gone wrong. But all gave their lives for their country. All gave some, some gave all One of […]
Combat in Afghanistan: My PRT Deployment
When I deployed to Afghanistan we spent four months in Indiana preparing us for the undertaking of going to Afghanistan. A good portion of what we learned was what to do in a combat situation. The likelihood of combat in Afghanistan was probable. Going out into a war zone a minimum of two times a […]
Becoming a Second Lieutenant
When I commissioned I became a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It was a day I had been striving toward and dreaming about. I would have gold bars put on my shoulder and I would transition from being a cadet to an officer. At my commissioning, eight other cadets sat with me. […]
The Food from Afghanistan
While deployed to Afghanistan I was able to taste real Afghan food. Sometimes there would be a potluck on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) other days our local national engineers would bring us kebob wraps from the local market, occasionally our contractors would bring us food either at the site or to a meeting on […]
Long Days Preparing for War
It felt like I was in Afghanistan for a long time or at least it felt like a long time. The weird thing was that I spent four months in training and almost nine months deployed, but the longest part of the deployment was the four long months of training preparing for war. It seemed […]
Leaving for Afghanistan
Adjust – Day 16 Leaving from Indiana and arriving at my temporary home in Afghanistan required me to be ready to adjust. Here is the story of how we got there. We left late one night on a plane headed to Germany. I called my husband right before we boarded to say I love you […]
