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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 […]
Erin Sears served as an Air Force Developmental Engineer. She left the military shortly after having her first child due the stress of a commute and the challenge of dual military life. Air Force Developmental Engineer Erin served in the US Air Force on Active Duty from December 2006 through July 2012 as an Air […]
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 […]
In this interview, we talk about Cynthia’s journey to military life and experience as one of the military moms deploying overseas. She joined the military through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. A program she joined just to learn a little more about the military. One of the biggest struggles she had during ROTC was […]
It is Veterans Day and I wanted to reflect on why people serve. I asked a few people their opinions on why they served and was surprised when more than one of the people responded that it was a personal matter and they did not want to share, but then I thought really deep about […]
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 quickly learned the lonely days of a military wife before I even left the military. The first time my husband left after our son was born was when he was 8 weeks old and he was gone for 8 weeks. Before my husband left my son had started sleeping long stretches each night. I […]
