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October 14th, 2025

How Trauma Resurfaced Years Later

  1. How Trauma Resurfaced Years Later 44:55

Crystal joined the military when she realized she needed a change in her life. It led her to join the Air Force and begin a career. After a night of drinking a fellow airman helped her get into her room and raped her. She didn’t report it and just moved on. Years later she took an assignment helping others who were survivors of military sexual trauma. This triggered a response including panic attacks and other neurological responses. Crystal bravely shared how this experience that she thought she had left in her past came back to cause challenges in her life. Resources:

Women of the Military Mentorship Program

Girl’s Guide to Military Service available where books are sold. 

Signed copies of A Girl’s Guide to Military Service

Girl’s Guide to the Military Series

Amanda Huffman Women of the Military Podcast, Award Winning Author

Amanda is an Air Force veteran as a Civil Engineer. She deployed to Afghanistan with the Army on a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan. She left the military in 2013, her husband is currently serving in the U.S. Space Force. Today, she hosts the Women of the Military podcast sharing the stories of women who have served and is the award winning author of A Girl's Guide to Military Service, a guide for high school girls considering the military.