Special Operations.

Covert Ops.

Espionage. The Team House.

With your hopes hopes Jack Murphy and David Park.

Hey everyone. Welcome to our episode Christmas episode. I hope it's going to be

episode. I'm Jack here with Dave. Our guest on tonight's show is Melissa Naheta. She is an Army

Sci Ops veteran served in psychological operations and deployed as the first

female psychological operations team leader to a combat zone.

And we're really excited to have her on the show tonight.

So, Melissa, thank you for coming on and doing this.

Well, thanks, Dave and Jack. I appreciate it.

Yeah, absolutely.

And so I'll start with the same question that we ask, you know, all of our guests.

So a little bit about your origin story, if you could tell us a little bit about your upbringing and how that kind of took you towards military service.

Yeah, sure. So I was born in El Paso, Texas, so the desert. I was raised halfway there and I graduated out of Tucson, Arizona and

got accepted to EMS use. So that's where I did my schooling at for around three and a half years

there. I did ROTC and JRC throughout my time, so I was always bound to be in the military. I knew from the beginning that this was what I was going to do. I just couldn't pick what branch between Marines and Army. I ended up choosing the Army because I went to a

marine devil pup small camp that they send bad kids to but I asked my dad in fact I begged my bad dad to pay for me to go to it with another friend and we were the few ones that that volunteer to go and the rest of the bad kids that go and you get for around three weeks you get treated like crap by your marine people it was great

I loved it I've always enjoyed that type of stuff anything physical and intense I like but I did talk to the female drill sergeants there,

drill instructors, and they said that there was no place

for the female really to go, aside from supply, quartermaster,

and that's not what I was looking for so I went ahead and chose the army and in

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