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At the age of 21 Liz became the youngest aircrew to deploy to Iraq. She was also the only female member of the crew on the iconic Chinook helicopter team for four years.

In 2005, Liz was first deployed to Afghanistan and she’d go on to complete 10 tours as part of the medical helicopter response team providing emergency assistance to wounded personnel.

It was a role she relished. But very quickly, Liz was faced with the horrors of war. And they would have a devastating impact on her mental health.

“At first, I had this lovely naivety because I was so young. We would think nothing of going into a hail of bullets to get a casualty. It was just picking up everybody’s sons, husbands and Dads, who had paid the ultimate price. It was the accumulative effect of that. We saw it all.”

Liz served for over 17 years, but in 2019 she was medically discharged with a neck injury.

“It was really hard, because it was all I had ever wanted to do and suddenly it wasn’t there anymore, and I felt very invisible after leaving the Armed Forces.”

As the world went into lockdown due to Coronavirus, Liz’s mental health began to deteriorate. “My routines went out the window. I wasn’t able to be with people, I began to spiral and it triggered PTSD as I began to relive life at war.

Read Liz's full story 👈💙❤