Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Women of the Military
Episode: The Struggle of Coming Home from War - Episode 7
Description: Welcome to episode seven of Women of the Military Podcast. In today’s episode your host Amanda Huffman interviews Ashley Metesh-McCoy.
Ashley grew up as a military brat. She served in the Army National Guard while attending college and participating in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. While doing this she was able to combine her Montgomery GI Bill and ROTC scholarship to graduate from college with almost no debt.
Off to Afghanistan
Her guard unit was mobilized to deploy shortly after she graduated from college. She was not slated to deploy si...