Summary
Current Position: Other
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2022 US Representative for US House District 1
Ashley Ehasz is a U.S. Army Veteran and Apache helicopter pilot.
She grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and at the age of 17 with a waiver in hand, she joined the Army, seeing that as her best option to afford her college education. If elected, Ashley would be the first woman serving in Congress to have graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
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About
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Her upbringing was not an easy one.
Her family was loving, but had their challenges, including mental health problems, substance abuse, and staying afloat financially. All of these problems led her family to move around a lot as she was growing up, so stability and hope for a better future was always something Ashley craved. At 17, with an age waiver in hand, she joined the U.S. Army as a way to create opportunities for herself and to serve our country following the September 11th terrorist attacks. Ashley always sought stability and structure for herself, but also had a deep passion to bring stability to the world.
Ashley will use her experience fighting for our country to fight for you.
Upon graduating West Point, Ashley was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant within the U.S. Army Aviation branch. Her first duty station was Fort Rucker, Alabama, where she attended flight school. While there, she trained to become an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter pilot, and graduated in January 2012 as the only woman in her Apache class. From there, she was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas with the 4th Battalion, 501st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion. There, she served as a platoon leader in both a line unit and an aviation maintenance unit, deploying to Kuwait under Operation Spartan Shield. Later, as the battalion logistics officer and pilot-in-command, she deployed once again to Kuwait and Camp Taji, Iraq, with Operation Inherent Resolve. Ashley then commanded two aviation troops, including an aviation maintenance troop, with the 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Riley, Kansas, deploying to South Korea in 2017. After her service, Ashley used her G.I. bill to get her Master’s degree from the University of Oxford. During the pandemic, Ashley worked as a policy writer and project coordinator to implement the CARES Act for county government, and now serves as a government and public service sector consultant.
Ashley is battle-tested and ready to win.
For the first time in decades, students, workers, families, and retirees are worse off than the generation before them. They are unable to pay for childcare, find work that offers a livable wage, or afford prescription drug prices. As a woman who commanded in the military, Ashley is battle-tested to solve the problems we face every day, and she will be an outspoken advocate for those struggling the most.
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