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Amy Forsythe served on five combat tours as a correspondent and Public Affairs Officer. In 2006, she was part of the first-ever Female Engagement Teams in Iraq. I am excited to share her story this week on the podcast as I have done a lot of research about Female Engagement Teams, but have found limited […]
I survived an earthquake in Afghanistan during my nine-month deployment. Truthfully, I lived in a tent so there wasn’t much to worry about in terms of what could fall on me. The bed and dressers shook a lot while I was peacefully sleeping. Almost everyone woke up in the middle of the night, but this […]
Janell was interested in serving in the military and she began her journey to the military through the Civil Air Patrol program. Once she began the Civil Air Patrol, she knew she wanted to serve in the military and set her sights on attending a military academy. Initially, she wanted to attend the Air Force […]
Can you imagine what it is like to be a woman in the military? Unfortunately being raped is one of the struggles women face. Ruthie is a rape survivor She shares her story this week on the podcast about being raped, not once but twice and what she did to help someone who was being […]
When You Don’t End Up in the Career Field You Planned On – Episode 31 Vanessa served as an Aircraft Maintenance officer, both in the back shop and the flight line. She deployed to Afghanistan in the summer of 2013 after being married for a month. Her husband was not in the military. She still […]
Today’s guest is Annette Whittenberger. Listen to her story of overcoming PTSD symptoms. Annette is a military spouse, mother to two teenagers (one is in college), and veteran who served in the Army for over seventeen years as a Chemical officer including a deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. She retired and decided to trade in her […]
Ashley Metesh-McCoy shared her experience in the military and what it was like to coming home from a deployment. She didn’t expect to deploy right after graduating from college but that is what happened. She was young and did not know a lot about the military. Coming home from a deployment Off to Afghanistan Her […]
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 […]
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 […]
