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Ashley L. Brott (b.1987), of Phoenix, Arizona, served in the United States Army from 2005 through March of 2010. During that time, she deployed to Iraq twice. Ashley L. Brott was born in December of 1987 in Phoenix, Arizona. She grew up in a military family, with her mother in the United States Navy and then later the United States Army, and her father in the United States Navy, spending some time in Germany. She enlisted in the United States Army in 2005 after obtaining her GED through Project Challenge, a military-based school. Brott completed basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina and then received training for her MOS in unit supply at Fort Lee, Virginia. She was assigned to Fort Hood, where she prepared for deployment, and deployed to Iraq in October of 2006. That deployment lasted for 15 months, in which Brott worked in search and security on checkpoints into a forward operating base (FOB) in Baghdad. Brott then returned to Fort Hood, and again deployed in early 2009. On this deployment, she worked in supply and other duties. She returned from this deployment on December 23, 2009, and her period of enlistment ended in March of 2010.