I Served on the USS Ronald Reagan

I Served on USS Ronald Reagan belongs to the same series of witness and boundary songs I have released recently.
 
This song names service without decoration and survival without apology. It speaks from lived experience — two deployments, doing the job, serving honorably — and refuses the erasure that so often follows women veterans when their stories no longer fit comfortable narratives.
Like the rest of this series, this song does not ask for validation. It does not debate. It does not soften itself to be easier to hear.
 
It acknowledges what is rarely held at the same time:

that someone can serve their country with integrity and be harmed by the system they trusted. That reporting sexual assault within the chain of command can carry consequences that last far beyond deployment. That the aftermath — Complex Post Traumatic Stress, chronic pain, and loss of safety — is not separate from service, but part of its cost.
 
Aligned with Nothing Is Required of You, this song offers sound as witness rather than resolution. There is no instruction here. No demand for belief. No request for understanding.
 
Aligned with I Owe You Nothing and No More Access, it marks the point where explanation ends. The truth is not presented for approval — it stands on its own.
 
Aligned with We Matter Too (Women Veterans), this song rejects the framing of women’s service as symbolic, political, or conditional. It affirms that women enlist, deploy, endure, and survive with the same gravity as any man.
 
This song exists for those whose service continues long after discharge — in the body, in memory, and in the nervous system. It remains whether it is acknowledged or not.
 
Nothing is required of you to listen.
The truth remains regardless.