Laural Hobbes, MOAA’s senior editor, holds a bachelor's of arts in English from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. She has edited several award-winning features for Military Officer magazine, including “Addicted” (Sept. 2017) and “Sacred Transfer” (May 2018). Before joining MOAA’s team, she was an editor at the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md.