U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVIST, 13 YEARS OF SERVICE   ASHLEY ON LOVE, ENTITLEMENT, FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS:   I was an army brat, my mother was in the army, she joined when I was nine much to the disagreement of my family as no one wanted her to join. It changed our lives. We were from…

AIR FORCE VETERAN , 7 YEARS OF SERVICE   LISTEN RAMSAY, ON JOINING THE SERVICE AND A MOTHER’S PREMONITION: ON BEING THE TARGET OF A WITCH HUNT INVESTIGATION, IN OKINAWA, JAPAN: ON BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, AND WHY GOING TO THE POLICE WOULD HAVE COST RAMSAY HER CAREER:   I worked in a steel mill out of high school…

AIR FORCE VETERAN   JANINE ON MOVING TO HER FIRST POST IN LOUISIANA WITH HER THEN-PARTNER, FRESH POST THE DADT REPEAL:   When I was in my senior year of high school I was realizing I was gay and I had thought that you can’t tell anybody, nobody that I know can ever know about this. So…