[00:00:00] Scott DeLuzio: Thanks for tuning into the drive on podcast where we’re focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community. Whether you’re a veteran active duty guard reserve or family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio And now let’s get on with the show.

[00:00:21] Scott DeLuzio: Welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today, my guest is Jenna Carlton. Jenna is a Navy veteran who created the millennial veteran Facebook group and is the host of the vet chats, Instagram lives series that she does and that. The issues facing modern day veterans. And she’s also part of the veteran coalition that we have of podcasters and other content creators who are out there doing great things for veterans.

[00:00:51] Scott DeLuzio: And so I’m really happy to have Jenna on today to talk about everything that she’s doing and get a little bit more about [00:01:00] her out to the listeners of this podcast. Without further ado. Welcome to the show, Jen, I’m glad to have you on

[00:01:06] Jenna Carlton: hello, Scott. Great to be here. This is truly my pleasure. I’m great.

[00:01:10] Jenna Carlton: I’m grateful for this space and able to talk about the millennial veterans, the up and coming veterans.

[00:01:16] Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. And when I first heard about you and your group that you have, and talking about the millennials veterans. It hadn’t really occurred to me that there is a huge subset of this population of veterans that are millennials and millennials being, I think what the 81 to 96 or so give or

[00:01:37] Jenna Carlton: take.

[00:01:39] Jenna Carlton: Yeah. Right. And

[00:01:41] Scott DeLuzio: so yeah, I guess it depends on who you ask where that, that falls, but. That’s a big group of this population of veterans, especially after the last 20 years with the wars that we were fighting and everything. I would imagine that quite a few of the people who were fighting over there were millennials.

[00:01:58] Scott DeLuzio: So it’s really interesting that [00:02:00] you’re honing in on this subset of the population to focus on. What’s going on with them and their needs. A lot of people think of veterans as the Korea world war two Vietnam era veterans, but there are a lot of younger veterans who are out there too, who also are facing their own struggles, their own unique situations.

[00:02:22] Scott DeLuzio: Right. Before we get too much into that. We’ll get into that later. But for the listeners who maybe don’t know you in your story, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?

[00:02:32] Jenna Carlton: Sure. I’d love to. So I am originally from Wisconsin, upper, Michigan, way up north. Very rural area. I graduated with about 36 kids to give you guys an idea of how small of a town.

[00:02:45] Jenna Carlton: And of course I wanted to get out of there, see the world. So, who promises to you to see the world? The Navy? So I joined the Navy to see the world and I really did exactly that. I was a a neurography mate. So I did meteorology and [00:03:00] oceanography. Which is kind of a rare job to have in the Navy. And I was on an aircraft carrier.

[00:03:06] Jenna Carlton: So I deployed over to the Arabian Gulf, the Eastern Mediterranean sea. I got to go to Dubai Croatia, Bahrain...