Episode 27. Captain Hodges - MP

Our guest is Army Captain, Kayla Hodges who spent her time in from 2012-2020. She started her career at West Point Academy. She gives us detail about her experience at the academy and what genral life is like there.  We get into a good bit of detail about bureaucracy and the overall mindset of the military to do things the way they've always done it and how that can hinder unit sucess.  She went through Air Assault school and was stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. We touch on a few topics that she has written about that include Physical standard differences, the impact of leadership positions being rotated so frequently, and how some senior leadership, instead of taking criticism and working to improve things, double down instead...
Leading up to her getting out, she spent time doing an internship for the fish and wildlife program in Washington state. From there she talks about the decision to live the van life for a year to help her take time to find an outside personality that didn't revolve around being a soldier and how important that is. She also touches on doing some Conservation work in places like Costa Rica, Belize, and Kenya and being headed to Southern Africa with the program Soldiers for Wildlife.