You can't get ahead in life by just sitting there.

When I went back to college when I went

to see the certifying official,

one of the first things they told me was you're 100 percent

disabled, why are you going back to school?

Why don't you just stay at home and stay retired?

Thought about it and you're right, I could stay at home.

You can draw your pension, you can just do nothing and have fun

and go for hikes every day, but do I really want the highlight

of my life to be when I was 21, 22 on deployment?

Do I want to have grandkids one day and say, "Well,

for the last 60 years I've been retired

and the only good thing I've done

in life was in the military?

I don't want to sit around and do that.

You can't get ahead in life by just sitting there.

We have a resource by being able to get help so why not use it?

People deal in civilian society with depression

and they have problems being able

to access resources to move forward.

We have the resources to move forward so why not use them

and be able to draw on that and do something else?

I want my greatest successes in life to be when I'm 30 or 40,

when I've worked up to something.

You go through boot camp and you get beat, but you keep going

through boot camp to be able to go on deployments and have

that high of doing something prosperous and good

on deployments and doing well

and having your family proud of you.

So why shouldn't I just lead my life of going through boot camp

and getting beat up now and knowing

that the end prize is going to be when I'm 30 or 40

and I've worked towards something.

And that way when I have grandkids I can say my greatest

accomplishment in life is something I did later

in life rather than just when I was 21 or 22.

You constantly got to keep moving forward.

Even after divorces, there'll be someone else

out there hopefully, but if you don't get the help,

there's no way you can do that.