{"id":16284,"date":"2019-12-29T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/?p=16284"},"modified":"2019-12-29T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T06:00:42","slug":"reflections-from-erin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/reflections-from-erin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of a Woman Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reflections of a Woman Veteran<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dear Friend,<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I am immensely passionate about employment issues facing women veterans because I am one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be in the Navy,  just like my grandpa. I worked hard through high school and college, and became just the fourth female aboard my first ship. I served proudly for ten years in the Navy, and planned to make it my career; that plan was abruptly changed when I received an unexpected cancer diagnosis that cut my military career short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being medically retired, I was unwillingly thrust into the role of both a woman veteran and a military spouse–forced to change jobs in a new city, with no connections. I felt lost and intimidated by this unknown landscape, and–as qualified as I was–spent eleven long months unemployed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t know an organization like Hire Heroes USA existed at that time–I didn\u2019t know that there was a whole team of supporters who longed to see me succeed, personally and professionally. I struggled to find my way on my own, then made it my mission to make sure that those after me don\u2019t bear the same burden.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can help, too. By generously giving today, you can empower a woman veteran who honorably served her country and is looking for a new post-military career right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust me, she needs your support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Gratitude,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Johnson <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Director of Growth at Hire Heroes USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reflections of a Woman Veteran Dear Friend, I am immensely passionate about employment issues facing women veterans because I am one.  When I was a little girl, I wanted to be in the Navy,  just like my grandpa. I worked hard through high school and college, and became just the fourth female aboard my first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}