This is the Empowerment Message for today considering the news is urgent! We need to get them out of the Danger Zone!
No More Excuses!
Combat PTSD Wounded TimesKathie Costos
January 27, 2019
The number of service members committing suicide continues to rise. The number of veterans committing suicide continues to rise. The number of people actually in charge with a clue of what needs to be done, continues to be absent without leave!!!! Yes, they are AWOL!
How is it that there are people all over this country knowing exactly what works, what the troops need to hear, what veterans need to hear, YET WE ARE NEVER HEARD BY THOSE IN CHARGE? How is it that we have known what works for decades but the "experts" are clueless?
They come up with slogans when we come up with results. They come up with excuses, when we come up with plans.
What makes all of this worse for us is, we know there is absolutely no need of all this suffering when they could be healing and still serving.
This is totally unacceptable because all of these suicides were preventable!
Suicide rate among active-duty Marines at a 10-year high
CNN
Barbara Starr
January 25, 2019
"While there is no dishonor in coming up short, or needing help, there is no honor in quitting. For those who are struggling ... our Marine Corps, our families, and our Nation need you; we can't afford to lose you." General Robert Neller
(CNN)The number of confirmed and suspected suicides in the active-duty Marine Corps reached a 10-year high in 2018 with 57 cases, according to new Marine Corps data obtained by CNN.
The United States Marine Corps emblem hanging on a wall at the Joint Detention Forces Headquarters at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, April 09, 2014. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOVAnother 18 Marines in the Reserve forces either are confirmed to have committed suicide or their deaths are being investigated as suspected suicides.
Marine Corps sources say the service is concerned that 2018 may have seen 75 suicides even with the extensive mental health programs available. Many of the cases are young Marines who have not deployed overseas and have not been in combat -- a situation that has been seen in other branches of the military as well.
"Don't make them just numbers," one Marine Corps official pleaded when making the data available to CNN.
read more here
Yet again, one more reminder that when the DOD bought all the FUBAR "resilience" BS, they failed to notice that if it did not work for those who did not deploy, THEN IT WOULD NOT WORK FOR THOSE WHO WERE DEPLOYED MULTIPLE TIMES!!!
Here are a couple of videos from a Marine veteran with PTSD. Listen to him and know that you can #TakeBackYourLife and live stronger!
Kathie Costos DiCesare
Published on Dec 31, 2016
This is Jonnie. He has survived three attempted suicides and spent time as a homeless veteran. A year ago, he never thought he would be where he is today. He is healing and he wants to make sure other veterans get the message of something worth living for instead of the message spread about suicides. Spend next year healing and let this New Year be the year you begin to change again, only this time, for the better!
Kathie Costos DiCesare
Published on Mar 11, 2018
Sunday morning empowerment zone features Marine veteran filmed yesterday at the Orlando Nam Knights bikeweek party. His simple message is empowerment! Take control of your life from this moment on. It's up to you where you go from here!
Kathie Costos DiCesare
Published on Apr 14, 2018
My buddy Jonnie has been fighting to take his life back from PTSD. He is doing everything possible to make his life better. Working on his mind, his spirit and his body! He is at the American Combat Club in Downtown Orlando.
Published on Jul 22, 2018
PTSD Patrol Sunday Morning Empowerment Zone Jonnie shares his message of getting in control over the road you choose to be on. You can sit back and feel miserable as a victim or you can choose the road to heal as a survivor.
Cross posted on Combat PTSD Wounded Times
As A Vietnam Veteran, I went twenty years before I diagnosed with P.T.S.D. IT was after my wife committed suicide. In 2006 my Daughter was killed in an automobile accident, and in 2009 I found my Son dead in bed from a Drug overdose. With seven operations and years of treatment, I have fought threw the storm and by the grace of God, am still here. By the way. Three Purple Hearts from Vietnam. You can find a way to live. SEMPER FI
ReplyDeleteThe post above is from Daniel Hobart Sr.
DeleteI am so sorry you had to go through all of that, but grateful you shared it. It will give others hope they can heal too. You are in my prayers for continued courage because it comes from a place of pure grace. I believe God does not deliver pain to any of us, but uses what we are willing to do for the sake of others.
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