Andy Stumpf

“A lot of times guys get out, they'll move, uh, you know, back to where they came from. So away from their social circle, the uniform goes up in the closet. identity and purpose struggle that we all have when you go from that occupation, social isolation, maybe they bring with them some unhealthy social habits, alcohol, whatever else it may be with them with that isolation, with those struggles, with that baggage. It's a lot.”

“I will describe the choice of ending your own life as an irrational decision. That's I can't make any sense of it other than to say like you said it goes against every evolutionary everything that we can understand. So somehow people are arriving at an irrational decision and considering it to be the only rational solution.”

“There was a huge delta, I think, between how he thought of himself and how other people thought of him.”

“The Green Beret community has now lost more people to suicide than combat operations since 2001.”