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Sgt. Audrey Hayes currently serves as a public affairs noncommissioned officer for the 200th Military Police Command’s Public Affairs Office, which she joined in February, 2016. Since joining the 200th MPC, Hayes was selected as the 2016 Military Journalist of the Year, winning both at the U.S. Army Reserve and the U.S. Army levels. As an Army Reserve Soldier, she has supported more than a dozen events, publishing 16 news articles and 198 images in the past two years. She volunteered for as many missions as possible, while being a new mother, working part-time as a restaurant employee and being pregnant with her second child. She is currently working toward her Maser’s of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore, where she received the Donahoo Award for History among 36 other peers.
SGT Hayes’ images have been consistently used for top publications and social media platforms across the Department of Defense, with her articles also republished by news agencies at both the regional and national levels.
SGT Hayes was born in Homestead, Florida, in 1988. When she was 16, she moved to Sylva, N.C., Aug. 2014, where she lived with her father, until she was 20. Hayes moved back to Fla on Sept. 17, 2008. Exactly one year later, Hayes left the Military Entrance Processing Station in Miami for basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. This, she says, is when her life truly began. After her first contract was up, Hayes decided she wanted to pursue her education, and become the first person in her immediate family to graduate college, thanks to the Army’s education benefits.
Hayes spent the majority of her active duty career as a unit armorer. She served more than four years on active duty as a 91K, armament repairer in the Ordnance Corps. She became the assistant armorer at her first duty station on Camp Hovey, South Korea, where she was assigned to Delta Troop, 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 2nd Infantry Division, from June 2010 to June 2011. Then, she became the primary armorer for the rest of her active duty time at Fort. Benning, Ga. She was assigned to Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. There, she was responsible for approximately $2.5 million of sensitive items with zero loss, from June 2011 to May, 2013.
She re-enlisted into the U.S. Army Reserve in May 2013 to attend the Defense Information School to become a public affairs professional. After graduating DINFOS in August 2013, she was accepted into the University of Baltimore’s College of Arts and Sciences to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in history.
She served as a public affairs journalist at the 354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, from May 2013 to January 2014. She transferred to the 214th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in Richmond and served there until February 2016. One of the major highlights there was an overseas mission to Zlocienic, Poland, in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve in November 2014.
As an undergraduate, Hayes found her home in Baltimore and fell in love with the life God provided for her. She graduated on Dec. 15, 2015. Thanks to the Army public affairs, writing became a passionate aspect of her life with a focus on history and academics.
Hayes and her husband have one son, Eli, and are expecting their second child, due to arrive in May 2018.
| Date Taken: | 01.02.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 01.16.2018 12:37 |
| Photo ID: | 4077675 |
| VIRIN: | 170102-A-KE966-001 |
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| Location: | FORT MEADE, MARYLAND, US |
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