Lauren Kelly founded U.S. Military Television Network after  observing  the treatment of military personnel and their families in a town in which she was living. She was compelled to support the military and their mission.

In 1985, Ms. Kelly formed  a  USO type  military  entertainment  troupe to  entertain  the military and raise morale. Her troupe, News From Home,  comprised  mostly  of  former Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, performed at air shows, enlisted clubs,  officers clubs  and NCO clubs. During her five-year stint, she began to listen to the concerns and  needs  of military personnel and their families. She found that the military needed more than a group  of classy Texas gals singing and dancing for an hour to  raise  morale.  They  would  need something to sustain morale on a more permanent basis.

In effort to start  that  mission, Ms. Kelly moved to  San  Diego,  California  in  August  of 1990, to produce and air programming  through  a  local cable  TV  provider  to  Southern California  military  installations.  When   Ms. Kelly  and  the Vice  President  of  the  cable company met with local military flag officers, Ms. Kelly was  stunned to  find that  the Vice President was passing her programming off as his own. It was then that she elected not to air her programs through that provider's dedicated military channel, and decided to set out on her own and start a television network about the military she knew.

She spent the next 10 years receiving letters of support, researching television industry and military standards in order to merge  these  two  powerful  entities.  During  that  time,  she earned a degree in Radio/TV/Film and volunteered as a  producer,  editor and  on-camera talent at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base television station KPEN.  She has appeared as a guest on the "Oprah Winfrey Show",  the "Leeza Show", the  television  series "Dallas" and "Dance Fever", as well as  national  television  commercials.   Ms.  Kelly  has  been  a member of the Armed  Forces  Broadcasters  Association ( AFBA),  U.S.  Marine Corps Combat    Correspondents    Association    (USMCCCA)    and    the    Armed   Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).  She  remains  the  President and CEO of USMTV today.