One would assume that when veterans come home they are have easy access to all the benefits they have earned through their service to our country right? Well, that isn't always the case. Most times veterans don't know where to start or who to ask for help. In fact, even the act of asking for help, to most veterans is hard due to years of being conditioned by the military that asking for help is a sign of weakness.
As you can see in the video above, one the issues stated in the video is the Veterans Affairs being overloaded and veterans being made to wait for help. A possible solution to the overload and wait times is the creation of veteran out reach to where as soon as a veteran is sepaarated from service. Veteran outreach would put veterans into the system and give them the health care insurance and care they often times don't know they earned through their service. Putting veterans in the system with their symptoms of mental illness and other ailments would reduce wait times with doctors and hasten treatment and help curb veteran suicides.
Veteran outreach is not the cure all to veteran suicides. However, all the marches, push ups challenges, YouTube videos, are for nothing if they don't spur actual change. I have been in the position of a veteran coming home and not knowing where to starts. It is a frustrating and lonely place to be. If we can afford to send veterans overseas in foreign land to get blown up and fight enemies who know the region better and hide behind civilians, then we can definitely afford to to better their care when they come home. If we don't, we will far more cases like Andrew Marckensano.
