WEBVTT 00:08.500 --> 00:12.780 That. Force seventeen deployment a as the civil affairs officer 00:12.780 --> 00:13.500 the S nine. 00:14.050 --> 00:18.350 And dad but soon after we got here and our commander decided 00:18.350 --> 00:21.500 that he needed some help in the joint implementation commission. 00:22.260 --> 00:26.610 Also referred to as the jake and so I was moved to help the joint 00:26.610 --> 00:30.440 implementation commission and Saturday newnan civil affairs as 00:30.440 --> 00:33.640 that an additional duty when I have some additional time and 00:33.640 --> 00:35.100 a couple of other projects as well. 00:35.790 --> 00:39.920 I E and eight personnel as Stan. My came in as an enlisted person 00:40.000 --> 00:43.520 worked in the hospital at one point for the back hospital and 00:43.520 --> 00:47.660 and then I went to go see S and M. I am a personal officer but 00:47.660 --> 00:51.790 I have meant work does a person officer in mike rare. I a workday 00:51.790 --> 00:56.840 in them to command and being a mobilisation officer and mobilisation 00:56.840 --> 01:00.420 readiness and that I was a traditional guardsmen for the majority 01:00.420 --> 01:05.690 and record sixteen years and down and mike fulltime job was that 01:05.690 --> 01:08.830 working at the state hospital as a recreation therapist and in 01:08.830 --> 01:12.520 two thousand three equation and the national guard started family 01:12.520 --> 01:16.970 programs they called me and down to good for the mine marple 01:16.970 --> 01:20.320 burn called me and he said and there's tartness family programmers 01:20.320 --> 01:23.380 got your name written all over it. So I came to work in the family 01:23.380 --> 01:28.090 program and that you and did that for almost ten years and a 01:28.090 --> 01:30.580 then ready for this deployment day when over tour work as the 01:30.580 --> 01:32.590 deputy at training site command. 01:33.500 --> 01:37.990 Well I think that that opportunity and and working in the family 01:37.990 --> 01:41.560 program that was a big one for me and I might fulltime job that 01:41.560 --> 01:45.120 that when I of when as a traditional guardsmen was working and 01:45.120 --> 01:49.840 social services and down the opportunity to come to the guard 01:49.840 --> 01:53.030 and work full time for the guard bringing mills loves together. 01:53.030 --> 01:55.930 My love for social services and my left for military families 01:56.290 --> 01:58.810 and the military bringing ours together and helping military 01:58.810 --> 02:01.820 families a great opportunity for me for me it felt like it was 02:01.820 --> 02:05.750 a calling and not a job I loved it and I will always the back 02:05.750 --> 02:10.080 on that talibans. So that as a blessing in my life challenges 02:10.080 --> 02:13.080 that they're a lot of challenges to being a military family and 02:13.080 --> 02:16.610 and being a woman in the military also when you're a mom year 02:16.750 --> 02:19.700 your children have to make sacrifices for your military current 02:19.700 --> 02:23.720 and and i've been very blessed to have a wonderful husband who 02:23.760 --> 02:29.000 just and picks that the rains when I'm gonna and down and he's 02:29.000 --> 02:31.850 you know made plenty of pony tails on my daughter and breast 02:31.850 --> 02:36.300 lots of hair and and and had to do a lot of things that a lot 02:36.300 --> 02:40.850 of dead still really get and get the opportunity to deal and 02:40.850 --> 02:45.260 as much as military dads and get to so i've been gone a lot to 02:45.260 --> 02:48.030 and he's always some picked up and my children of made a lot 02:48.030 --> 02:51.820 of sacrifices too. So that I could I could do this I'm very thankful 02:51.820 --> 02:55.280 for them. Well you know I have a daughter who is a soldier and 02:55.280 --> 02:58.720 she is going to be leaving for Afghanistan to shortly after I 02:58.720 --> 03:03.800 get home and down and it was the there was difficult std to a 03:03.800 --> 03:07.310 was it was harder I guess I should say to sign on the dotted 03:07.310 --> 03:11.060 line for her to join on the military than it was for me to sign 03:11.060 --> 03:14.360 for myself back in the eighties and you know we got we're in 03:14.360 --> 03:18.790 a time of war and this is my childhood but and at it even sane 03:18.790 --> 03:23.220 that I was proud of her for making that decision and down and 03:23.220 --> 03:28.030 I was happy to do that for her it was you have so relief it been 03:28.030 --> 03:32.350 in the military is not for everybody and you have to feel like 03:32.350 --> 03:36.110 it's something that spoiling you there and she did it and so 03:36.110 --> 03:38.980 I was happy to sign online for for to be able to do that so I 03:38.980 --> 03:41.710 would say to any young woman who is considering that to think 03:41.710 --> 03:43.980 through those things that there are some challenges but if you 03:43.980 --> 03:47.030 still feel like that calling is pulling you towards that they 03:47.030 --> 03:49.930 give it a try it's been a great opportunity for me. I've looked 03:49.930 --> 03:51.820 maker air and I'm very thankful for. 03:52.760 --> 03:57.100 I and majored mouse math and I a and they dispersing officer 03:57.100 --> 04:01.610 for the J finance for NATO headquarters key for seventeen. 04:02.380 --> 04:07.070 My man say that brown amine noted that ran as ssn messed it and 04:07.070 --> 04:10.690 I I wanted to do more and make my change in so then I went to 04:10.690 --> 04:14.490 a C S tradition rc S. They eighteen-month program and it can 04:14.490 --> 04:18.780 officer and anger ample time as an officers and medical and so 04:18.780 --> 04:22.430 I worked as the whole system specialist at the debrah headquarters 04:22.720 --> 04:26.260 and sideman and medical the other I am an administrative officer 04:26.260 --> 04:29.780 and then as detention on i've worked in medical. I'll I was a 04:29.780 --> 04:33.280 training Officio way issuers amazing because we that small wise. 04:33.280 --> 04:36.890 I E and as roma lies. It is a mobilisation started happening 04:37.140 --> 04:40.600 back in two thousand and three answers about time down that. 04:41.210 --> 04:43.820 And make in a defense get no soldiers were they needed to be 04:43.820 --> 04:47.840 successful down range and and then I'll are so worked as essential 04:47.840 --> 04:51.350 satisfies Quinn needed and an additional duty on top there that 04:51.350 --> 04:54.920 at the same time as estate them of them back and So that's been 04:54.920 --> 04:55.500 my current. 04:56.130 --> 04:59.750 Opportunity is and I mean it for me and my military career. 04:59.750 --> 05:03.150 I've found their the people that I'm me especially international glad. 05:03.440 --> 05:06.380 So the what they bring to the table they're from their somalia 05:06.380 --> 05:09.690 minds and their military alliance and networking that i've me 05:09.910 --> 05:12.620 and the upper changes that i've had to glean from them. 05:12.650 --> 05:16.390 I'll their amazing act abuse and make myself a better person 05:16.660 --> 05:20.160 ten make the knight a better and by airmen and that we can work 05:20.160 --> 05:24.160 together and and you words meow mission iran in and make it the 05:24.160 --> 05:25.120 best that we can be. 05:25.650 --> 05:30.690 Positive chances aavso a and then we're gentlemen this earlier 05:30.690 --> 05:33.910 so and when I was a sexual assault response quote NATO. 05:34.210 --> 05:36.960 They us that they are so tastic me as a state family program 05:36.960 --> 05:41.070 director the same time. It was long hours and working is was 05:41.070 --> 05:44.870 I use that was a a positive emanated in a chance posited chandlers 05:44.870 --> 05:50.800 Allah things that I that to land and to test myself to and Do 05:50.800 --> 05:54.400 more than what I thought I could do so that was amazing for me 05:54.400 --> 05:58.960 to be able to do things. I never thought I could do answer that 05:58.960 --> 06:02.440 was very cell for failing and on a negative sided did take my 06:02.440 --> 06:05.750 time away from my family and a long hours I had to spend out work. 06:05.970 --> 06:10.010 So as kind of a positive emanated that both a chance and by any 06:10.010 --> 06:10.620 specs on. 06:11.640 --> 06:16.020 And so a I was a D air and if you look and into it there so much 06:16.020 --> 06:19.720 that you can get commence on match that you can give to a and 06:19.720 --> 06:23.250 they can be both rewarding and our for filling feel. 06:23.820 --> 06:28.070 Again there so many things like even the idea C S and and it 06:28.100 --> 06:32.200 meaning the people that met three I'm mike where and being here 06:32.230 --> 06:36.500 and and a on biomass working with each other countries has been 06:36.500 --> 06:39.100 my and mass the flying things that ever them. My whole life. 06:39.360 --> 06:42.600 I've never really been out of the U.S. before this apply man-hours relying. 06:42.600 --> 06:46.320 Arrison. My first got here there and meeting on the other people 06:46.320 --> 06:49.630 from the other can cheese and cleaning from them. How smart they 06:49.630 --> 06:53.290 are and the different languages that they speak and zest everything 06:53.290 --> 06:56.750 that they bring to the table and to see thirty two nations working 06:56.750 --> 07:01.160 together as one and cannot come uncle has been on the most amazing 07:01.160 --> 07:04.670 things for me and I would on the whole their my children can 07:04.670 --> 07:08.440 see that let alone anybody that wanted to join the military and 07:08.440 --> 07:11.120 can learn from that as well just discerning other. 07:11.740 --> 07:14.960 Other people and our nation's that was it's been amazing. 07:16.660 --> 07:22.270 Just sra labor act. I a and and the advanced this list for the 07:22.270 --> 07:24.330 joint personnel admin center. 07:24.860 --> 07:26.320 At that U.S. 07:26.500 --> 07:29.950 balkans. And asc which is the nationals for element. 07:30.920 --> 07:32.610 I joined instead or two thousand. 07:33.170 --> 07:36.030 And a lot of family members that are in the military my grandfather 07:36.030 --> 07:41.060 actually was a marine and or is former E out my father's a air 07:41.060 --> 07:43.620 force an answer uncles that have been in the military. 07:44.140 --> 07:46.480 So I dueling thinking that I can just do it. 07:47.060 --> 07:52.080 And I get. And from their i've then and To call way as a de the 07:52.080 --> 07:54.880 rc instructor which is a warrior. Leader course instructor. 07:55.500 --> 07:57.860 I'm i've also worked in in operations round. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.930 The and the last six years and then to where leader course instructor 08:03.420 --> 08:05.950 and then I'd came on this deployment to as a. 08:07.840 --> 08:11.340 I get it going once this but they're going on this deployment. Fitbit. 08:13.250 --> 08:16.020 So I was told that has gone and limit their form here. 08:18.250 --> 08:20.550 Clearly ally the sounds is is our. 08:21.550 --> 08:25.860 Being a co-parent to a five year old and be an unemployment. 08:27.160 --> 08:30.110 From being away from her are obviously is a chance within the 08:30.110 --> 08:34.420 crew or on because and Being in the military choirs you just 08:34.420 --> 08:37.640 pick up in india job where there that may be in whatever country 08:37.640 --> 08:38.950 may and I. 08:39.630 --> 08:43.190 I would not of chose to come on deployments just long tear lee from. 08:43.910 --> 08:47.800 I've learned a lot next a in a ghost towns is I feel like it's 08:47.840 --> 08:51.720 it's been a struggle to and culp in certain aspects of the family 08:51.720 --> 08:54.400 life and get a good family support system so. 08:55.080 --> 08:58.090 I'm not worrying that rounds that missing my daughter's a huge 08:58.090 --> 08:58.940 talents and then. 08:59.680 --> 09:01.170 For her air progression. 09:02.330 --> 09:03.200 You know just. 09:04.450 --> 09:06.170 Does mean a soldier period. 09:06.690 --> 09:10.420 At having to prove yourself to be the better applicants for any 09:10.420 --> 09:13.800 kind of promotion trying to be the better person to gain. 09:14.350 --> 09:19.730 And The Their job that you want to me it's very competitive field some. 09:20.770 --> 09:24.580 The military has opened that so many different doors now to women 09:24.740 --> 09:29.590 in regards to and better opportunities in shock wise and not 09:29.590 --> 09:32.890 clearly it a lot people that are. Okay with that however. 09:33.560 --> 09:36.260 If they had open at so these jobs and I was first coming and 09:36.260 --> 09:40.330 I probably would've taken some sort of airborne aerosols types cooler. 09:40.490 --> 09:43.980 They began field artillery or something to challenge the more 09:44.340 --> 09:46.510 and I think that. 09:47.210 --> 09:51.190 Have the military is going for females and the opportunities Byzantine. 09:51.260 --> 09:54.030 If you have the desire to the town senior life. 09:54.650 --> 09:59.470 And don't wanna set finally desk. And just to be a normal everyday 09:59.500 --> 10:01.050 administrators specialists. 10:01.880 --> 10:04.780 At then xining lots or because it's probably one the best this 10:04.780 --> 10:08.050 actually it's the best crew decision i've ever mainline tire 10:08.050 --> 10:11.210 lifestyle minutes opened up tons of doors for me. It's give me 10:11.210 --> 10:12.830 acting to provide for my. Family. 10:15.560 --> 10:17.440 And I like the talents sound. 10:19.270 --> 10:20.000 Do. You. 10:29.170 --> 10:32.940 If you were deciding to join in our Terry going to get don't hesitate. 10:33.750 --> 10:37.600 That because you will make an impact and a difference and their. 10:38.650 --> 10:41.750 Any actually never know wheel actually influence so. 10:42.920 --> 10:45.160 And in the best part-built the in the military is being able 10:45.160 --> 10:46.140 to know that you can lead. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.960 Other individuals and you can insulin sentiment for them. 10:50.680 --> 10:52.320 And that's the best thing that i've ever learned..