Jennifer Hogg served as a 63Y Track Mechanic in the 152nd HHC New York Army National Guard from 2000-2005. She participated in the intial 9/11 activation and later saw her unit activated for OIF III (Operation Iraqi Freedom), although the mechanics and welders of her unit were deployed as Infantry, which barred her from deployment. Unable to further answer to her conscience due to the occupation and the treatment of minorities in the military—which she saw directly as a gay woman and indirectly in the racism that still exists—she accepted a discharge from the military as a SGT and is now active in the GI peace movement.

Hogg is a co-founding member of SWAN, the Service Womens Action Network www.servicewomen.org, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing the leadership of veterans, mentoring young women considering military service, working to solve problems facing women in uniform as well as providing and promoting services that are healing to women after their military service experience. SWAN establishes a worldwide network of military women, veterans and allies to provide lasting support, community and resources. She has found in the women of SWAN an amazing source of sisterhood, strength and direction.

She is also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, www.ivaw.org, where she currently serves as NYC chapter treasurer and formerly served on the national Board of Directors. She helped organize the panel "Divide to Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military" at IVAW's Winter Soldier Testimony which can be viewed online at the IVAW website.