Born in Los Angeles, California, Ashley Vasquez was raised in a military household. Her father was a battle hardened Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and her mother was a homemaker. Growing up, Ashley learned early on that her father was not going to treat her any differently than he treated his riflemen and she was going to have to pick things up the hard way. It just so happened that Hugo Vasquez found out that his daughter had inherited his mentality about life and could match him on stubbornness, making him somehow love his daughter more than he had before. He and his wife taught her everything that they knew, her mother covering pretty much everything, and Hugo covering his field of expertise: war. This was information that would do his daughter very well when he and