At 24, Mereena Alex has become something of a social media sensation, not for the usual reasons, but for how she is sharing her life as a young woman in the US Army .

Mereena is stationed in South Korea and works as a radiology technologist, but it is her Instagram feed that is catching the eyes and hearts of people, especially back home in Kerala.

Who is Mereena Alex?

What makes Mereena’s posts stand out is her choice to speak in Malayalam, her mother tongue, in a space where most military content is in English.

It is not just the drills and military routines that make her feed special, it is the way she brings them to life with snippets of her personality, often adding in moments of vulnerability and humour.

Her followers get glimpses of everything from pre-dawn marching dri

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