MARIETTA, Ga. – A Marietta Army veteran says she was forced to go to court to get her job back when she returned from serving her country.

Jessica Rice was a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service before she joined the military.

Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, serving two tours in Afghanistan. When she came home to Georgia in 2012, she tried to get her job back, but was told there were no open positions available.

“He told me there were no open positions available and that my best opportunity was to accept a position in Kentucky and transfer down,” Rice said.

She told Channel 2’s Liz Artz she had to start over as a new employee. As a veteran her employment status is protected by law.

“They should have reinstated her — given all of her seniority she accrued before military and the time she was in the military,” her attorney Chuck Bachman said. Read more