Aquila Brennan is a 13-year Veteran of the U.S. Army and photography enthusiast.

During her service she served a total of ten years at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and was deployed three times. Aquila deployed to Iraq once from 2005 to 2006, and twice to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2013.

In her last five years in the Army, she served as the public affairs NCO for the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade where she covered the training and deployments for a brigade of 5,000 Soldiers. During this time she covered the brigade’s flyovers of Super Bowl XLVIII, the 2014 Coca-Cola 600, and the 2014 Army-Navy game. She also covered the inactivation of the 101st Pathfinder Company in August 2016.

Even though her background is in journalistic writing, she’s beginning her first work of fiction.

You can follow her on Instagram at @DarciAquilae, or you can find her grousing about the insanity of transition and trans issues on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@armtieaquila