ASHLEY EHASZ
Candidate for Congress, Pennsylvania’s 1st District
Service: U.S. Army
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.
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 went on to serve overseas, deploying as a platoon leader, then later as battalion logistics officer and pilot-in-command in Kuwait and Iraq. Ashley then commanded two aviation companies out of Fort Riley, Kansas, and then deployed 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. Ashley worked as a policy writer and project coordinator to implement the CARES Act for county government. She lives in Bensalem, PA.