[citation needed] Kayla Williams was an Arabic Linguist as well as a SIGINT operations specialist for 5 full years.

She served in the 101st ABN Div (Air Assault), 3rd BCT, (187th Inf Regt) "Rakkasans".

She says it seemed hypocritical to go to Iraq in search of Weapons of Mass Destruction while ignoring North Korea's nuclear program.

She also believed that they were losing their focus on the real war on terror by invading Iraq instead of finishing the mission in Afghanistan.

But after going to Iraq and meeting Iraqi people, she began to feel that they were doing the right thing even if it had been for the wrong reason.

In November 2020, Williams was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.