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so on. That expanded into a Navy Mentor website that I singlehandedly managed for four years. I picked up a highly competitive assignment as a Navy Leadership facilitator as a First Class Petty Officer (which was an additional duty assignment as I was in the Navy Reserve at that time).
This allowed me to expand my abilities and reach even more individuals, along with a co- facilitator, teaching leadership concepts and providing mentorship to future Navy leaders in both the Active and Reserve Navy sectors. It was one of my most meaningful assignments aside from my Afghanistan deployment.
Since this time, or actually interwoven in it, I have been mentoring individuals online. They could be anyone really. A majority are individuals who have health or physical issues related to PTSD, have or are dealing with MST, or need positive encouragement in general.
My book Total War on PTSD contains 44 chapters by experts in their fields who donated their expertise to benefit those suffering from PTSD and MST. It also contains 33 stories from Veterans with MST or PTSD who own Service Dogs, to help illustrate how very much their dogs have helped them to adapt and overcome their own difficulties and ‘see the light’
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