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10 years ago, this month, I stepped out of a C-130 and onto the flight line at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. I was about to begin my nine-month deployment to Afghanistan, but the truth was my journey to Afghanistan had actually begun four months earlier when I began my combat skills training in Indiana. The training and deployment ended up lasting 361 days.
For this episode, I wanted to talk about what I learned during my training, deployment, coming home and by coming home, I don't usually mean immediately coming home, but years. Going to Afghanistan for me had a huge impact on my life. Before I had kids, I could say there was the Amanda before Afghanistan and the Amanda after Afghanistan. Now there is this window between when I got home from Afghanistan. After being home and how those experiences still affected my life, even though I had been home for years and when I had kids, and then my life kind of changed all over again. But definitely my deployment has played a huge role in who I am today and where I am right now.
See the full transcript on the blog here.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Episode 2, Amanda Huffman, AF Civil Engineer – Women of the Military Podcast
Letters Home from my Deployment
Changing the Conversation About Mental Health
Thank you to my Patreon Sponsor Col Level and above
Kevin Barba
Resources:
Women of the Military Mentorship Program
Girl's Guide to Military Service available where books are sold.
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