Apr 25, 2019
Fifteen years. Could it have really been that long? I was traveling to a reunion that was long overdue. It took one of our own dying to bring up the idea of getting together. My first deployment seemed like a lifetime ago, yet when I close my eyes, I can see the sand rushing by, the road stretching out into the horizon.
As our first installment of the Guard Experience, here’s a story by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell who speaks about her experience during her 2004 deployment to Iraq with the 1450th Transportation Company and the pre-conceived ideas she struggled to make sense of after returning from deployment.