Welcome back to the Once Ready Podcast. I am here with the five-star commander of AMC, Miss Ashley.

I mean that's what you know the journal says you want. 5-star commander of AMC Miss Ashley.

I mean that's what, you know, the journal says you are,

so that must be true, right?

Funny.

So military spouse, obviously, all those other things things we're here at ATA.

I just want to sit down with you for a minute and I did want to start out with

Lieutenant Minnehan, do you have any fun stories you can tell us about you know way back then?

Not sure I can share it.

For you though when you know he first commissioned and you started down this crazy journey of you know the military life

Were your expectations met at all?

Could you have imagined you know ending up where you've ended up?

No.

So, I don't even know if he's talked about this.

We, every time it was time for him to, you know, every time we had that point where he had to say yes or no to stand in,

are one question to each other is are we still having fun and that was it. I mean so you

know I kind of used like a 75% rule, you know, if it was good 75% of the time and

and we were still having fun and enjoying, you know, the lifestyle and he was enjoying his work.

And so every single time we just kind of like agreed. We're still having fun, so let's do it.

And here you are. You know how many years later it's crazy. Yeah, we still love it. We still have fun and it's awesome

I mean a lot more stressful for him than it is for me now.

But I can't go anywhere without people mugging that. I mean a lot more stressful for him than it is for me now.

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