Jeremy Stalnecker

I figured it out because I had the right people in my life and walked this out as a faith journey.

I had a responsibility now to take that to the men that I had served with specifically, but then more broadly since 2012.

I'm doing good, man.

Hey, your whole audience is going to be disappointed, though, after that introduction.

So I appreciate it, man.

It's good to be with you.

Really appreciate it.

Yeah, well, I appreciate that.

Yeah, Robert Irvine, man.

So I was a part of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, and he has supported reunions and other events for us over the years.

So he's definitely someone who shows appreciation.

And, you know, a lot of people say things, but he actually does things.

It's super cool.

Man, that's an interesting way of putting that, and I could spend a lot of time talking about it.

But, you know, when I came home from Iraq, as a Christian, a person of faith, with a good family, into a good church, I had this support network around me.

So I had all of the pieces that we would tell...

men and women coming back from combat to have, I had them and the bottom still fell out of my life.

I struggled in a lot of different ways and it was faith and it was the right people and it was all these components that got me to a place where I was functioning well again and healing and moving forward.

And it was a long process, but I had the right people in my life.

But in the middle of that, this was 2003, I really believed I was either broken, there was something wrong with me, or I was one of the only people that struggled like this.