I was a young midshipman at the US Naval Academy in the summer of 2006 conducting my "interview" to be a Marine Officer at a program called "Leatherneck" in Quantico, VA along with other fellow midshipmen. We were preparing for various field exercises and my Staff Platoon Commander was salty Captain Shane Groah, a prior enlisted officer with a drill instructor and military police officer background. He said words I'll never forget: "officers never fall out of a hike...ever..."

I was forced to acknowledge the reality that I might take a bullet or some other weapon of death for my country and be shipped back home in a casket with a flag draped over it to be put six feet under... As a kid contemplating military service, I had never really resolved three fundamental questions that I struggled with a lot:1) “Is it ok for me to kill another human in war?” 2) Where do I go when I die? 3) Is there a God, and if I can know Him, what does He want me to do with my life?

Organizations like Mighty Oaks Warrior Programs, led by Mixed Martial Artist Fighter and former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux, have seen 40% of the veteran graduates of his program who previously had symptoms of Post Traumatic Disorder (PTSD) demonstrate they no longer present with any clinical definitions of symptoms. Other organizations like this have seen tangible results that speak for themselves...