EARLIER APOLOGIZING FOR HIS
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR.
>>> ALSO TONIGHT, AN INDIANA
SOLDIER SENT TO ATION LIVED
THROUGH AIR
THROUGH A -- SENT TO AFGHANISTAN
LIVED THROUGH A HARROWING
EPISODE.
SHE SPOKE OUT ABOUT A DEPLOYMENT
MISTAKE THAT PUT TWO LIVES IN
JEOPARDY.
>> THE SECRET THAT THE ARMY KEPT
QUIET AND WHIE THE MOM SAID THAT
THE MILITARY HAS FAILED HER
TWICE.
>> BIG HELICOPTERS.
BASICALLY, I WAS TO BE A GUNNER.
>> LIFE AS SOLDIER.
A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ASHLEY.
IN 2012, AFTER BASIC TRAINING
AND AMMUNITIONS SCHOOL, ORDERS
CAME FOR THE THEN 20-YEAR-OLD TO
DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN.
SHE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE
12TH COMBAT AVIATION BRIGADE.
A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER UNIT.
30 DAYS BEFORE SHIPPING OUT, A
UNEXPECTED TWIST.
>> YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A
PREGNANCY TEST DONE PRIOR TO
DEPLOYMENT.
MINE SHOWN
MINE SH SN
MINE SH SHOWED UP POSITIVE,
NEGATIVE, AND THEN INDECISIVE.
THEY TOOK MY BLOOD THEN IN
LONDON.
>> THE BLOOD DEFENDANT WOULD SEE
TO DETERMINE IF SHE WOULD DEPLOY
OR NOT.
WHEN WORD CAME TO PACK HER BAGS,
SHE ALREADY HAD.
>> THEY DIDN'T WAIT?
>> NO.
SHE SAID THAT THE PREGNANCY
TESTS WERE DEEMED FALSE
POSITIVES AND HAD NO REASON TO
DOUBT.
AS PART OF THE DEPLOYMENT,
MEDICAL RECORDS SHOWED THAT SHE
RECEIVED MALARIA PILLS AND
ANTHRAX AND TYPHOID
VACCINATIONS.
WE GO IN BE THERE AND GET STUCK.
>> Reporter: FOR THREE MONTHS
SHE WORKED IN THE COMBAT ZONE.
PHYSICAL TRAINING AND
RESTRICTIVE WARE PART OF THE
ROUTINE.
>> I GOT SICK, BUT BLAMED IT ON
THE FOOD.
>> Reporter: THEN AUGUST 15.
>> I KEPT CRAMPING AND CRAMPING
AND CRAMPING.
>> REPORTER: A TRIP TO THE AID
STATION RESULTED TO FLUIDS AND
ORDERS FOR BED REST ABOUT.
>> WALKING BACK TO MY TENT, MY
WEIGHT BROKE.
I NEVER WAS IN LABOR OR HAD A
KID BEFORE.
>> Reporter: SHE AND A BATTLE
BUDDY MADE IT BACK.
AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT SHOCKED
ASHLEY AND THE UNITED STATES
ARMY.
>> I THOUGHT I WAS DYING.
I COULDN'T PHYSICALLY KNOW
BECAUSE I WAS IN DIRE PAIN.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS.
THEY TOLD ME TO STAND UP.
MY SON JUST CAME OUT.
>> REPORTER: ASHLEY HAD BEEN
EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT.
THESE PHOTOS SHOW HER FIVE POUND
BABY BOY IN THE HANDS OF AN ARMY
MEDIC.
DID YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAD
GIVEN BIRTH?
>> MY JOB WAS IN ATION IN THE
MIDDLE OF A COMBAT ZONE.
>> Reporter: THEY WERE FLOWN
TO GERMANY AND HOSPITALIZED AND
THAT SHOCK BECAME A SECRET.
>> EVERYONE HAD TO KEEP IT
QUIET.
THEN FINALLY STARS AND STRIPES
CAME OUT WITH SOMETHING.
>> Reporter: STARS AND STRIPES
IS A MILITARY PUBLICATION.
BUT NOTHING ABOUT ASHLEY AND THE
BIGGER OF BABY BENJAMIN.
BEN IS NOW FIVE YEARS OLD.
HE LIVES WITH BIRTH DEFECTS.
>> HE DOESN'T WALK NORMALLY.
>> Reporter: HIS MEDICAL
RECORDS SHOW A ANNUAL NOT IN HIS
LEG AT BIRTH, AND HAD CONTACT
WITH ANTHRAX AND OTHERS.
>> IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW I WAS
PREGNANT, WHY PULL ME BACK.
>> Reporter: IT'S NOT CLEAR
HOW THEY ENDED UP IN
AFGHANISTAN.
ALL SHE HAS IS BEN'S BIRTH
CERTIFICATE AND MEDICAL RECORDS
AS PROOF.
>> BORN OCTOBER 15, 2012.
>> Reporter: SHE HOPES THAT
THE U.S. ARMY WILL RECOGNIZE BEN
AND THE CRITICAL MISTAKE LEADING
TO A SOLDIER GIVING BIRTH IN
COMBAT.
13 INVESTIGATORS REACHED OUT TO
THE ARMY AND PENTAGON TO FIND
OUT WHAT WENT WRONG.
WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR
INFORMATION.
AN ARMY SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE
ONLY THING THERE IS A STARS AND
STRIPES ARTICLE, AND THAT BIRTH
IS CONFIRMED AND A REVIEW
CONDUCTED OF THE PRE-DEPLOYMENT
CLINIC.
LIKE MANY VETERAN, ASHLEY IS
STRUGGLING WITH POST DEPLOYMENT