5.14 Tight Lips

Episode Summary

Tight Lips ran her first trail while deployed to Baghdad in January 2005, accepting a colleague’s invitation because there was little else to do on a free afternoon. Back in the United States she joined Harrisburg-Hershey Hash, where several failed naming attempts ended with an apt reference to her Army intelligence career: Tight Lips.

Her subsequent service and travel produced hashes across countries, continents, and major events, while retirement opened an even busier itinerary. She discusses live trails, GM duties in North Carolina, charity red-dress runs, crash space, event sizes, injuries, family-friendly kennels, and the practical generosity of traveling hashers. Only late in the conversation does her professional rank emerge: she retired as a three-star lieutenant general and former head of the U.S. Army Reserve, making the hash’s rank-free fellowship especially meaningful.