Building a High Caliber Community for Veterans with Army Veteran Alyssa Quinn

211 Alyssa Quinn – High Caliber Community

Alyssa Quinn is the founder and CEO of High Caliber Community, the app for Veteran connections. All founders of High Caliber Community (HC2) are veterans, or currently serving. The mission at HC2 is to empower and unite the veteran community by strengthening bonds in neighborhoods across the country. HC2 created a secure app for veterans and current service members of all branches to connect directly with one another, find events in their area, find resources and other veteran owned businesses. The HC2 team began working on High Caliber Community in early 2017, and have just recently launched the High Caliber app, available for Veterans and current service members to download from the app store.

“[The app helps you] Find other veterans near you that are interested in the same things.”  – Alyssa Quinn

Starting in the Army National Guard

Alyssa enlisted with the Iowa Army National Guard in 2009 as a medic. Soon after she was preparing to deploy with her unit. While at MOB site, she injured her back pretty badly and she was sent back home.

She was a bit lost when she returned home trying to figure out what she wanted to do. One thing she knew for sure, she wanted to get back into uniform. She began by looking for active guard positions throughout the nation and stumbled across a Weapons of Mass Destruction team in Northern California in 2013.

Alyssa Quinn – Long Distance Drill Weekends

After 4 years, Alyssa voluntarily resigned to with the intent of continuing her education. But it got a bit messy at first.

Initially, her plan was to move to North Carolina and she did an inter-state transfer. On her terminal leave she drove home from California to Iowa. While she was at home she realized she needed to take a couple of college classes and enrolled in a community college for the semester. All the while she was commuting to North Carolina to report for drill weekends!

Guard to Entrepreneur

At some point during this time, she had the idea for her app and while in school really started to pursue it. She had found something she was truly passionate about and wanted to pursue. Everything else seemed to go by the wayside.

While in her transition period she was was finding ways to occupy her time. She began by creating dating profiles on some dating apps. She was looking for some friends to match up with. Any time she would match with civilians they would ask her questions she was not comfortable with.

Anytime she found a vet near her, she felt like she had struck gold. She knew she could connect with them on a social basis to grab a beer, or work out, or play pool because they got it. They were coming from the same background.

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