What drew you to RallyPoint?

Remember and this means something to me, you, and all those who served this great nation: "Respect Always - Warriors for Life Jonathan!"

Great question SSG (Join to see) - One of the soldiers that worked for me during our deployment in OIF 05-07 sent me an invite back in January of 2014, so I joined and spent very little time on RP initially, but then I got involved with Nonprofits to help veterans after my wife's father died from Suicide on 8 Dec 2015 and I lost two soldiers to suicide that deployed with me. I became the Chairman of the Board for Victory for Veterans Foundation and 3 years ago I started the Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support Community Services program to bring veterans and service members together for peer-to-peer support, "sharing and caring", and veterans helping veterans, in order to save lives my friend. I use RP now to make these connections, get veterans help and support, and I motivate RallyPoint Members each day through positive inspiration and motivational quotes. That is my mission. Here is what I do for veterans and what I post and share with RP Members today:

Member, Board of Directors for National Veterans Transition Service, Inc. (NVTSI). Helping Veterans successfully transition from the battlefront to the home front, NVTSI is a San Diego-based 501(c)(3) dedicated to assisting veterans in their reentry. We accomplish this by providing an early-stage cognitive-behavioral educational intervention, via a 3-week intensive workshop – REBOOT – followed by related mentoring and other services. Here is link to their website:

http://www.nvtsi.org

Chairman, Board of Directors, Victory for Veterans - As the Chairman of the Board provide strategic leadership and vision toward the mission of Victory for Veterans to fund non-profits serving Veterans experiencing the emotional challenges of PTSD, depression, loneliness, anger and others that often can trigger joblessness and lead to homelessness. These factors are partial explanations for the high suicide rate among Veterans, currently around 22 per day. Check out the website:

http://www.victoryforveterans.org

Vice President, Military & Civilian Debt Acquisition and Relief, I am responsible for debt acquisition and relief strategies for this great non-profit organization – RIP Medical Debt. My role is to oversee the purchase of portfolios which contain military service member as well as civilian healthcare debt from major healthcare groups. This would include hospitals, healthcare debt buyers, physician groups, emergency medical services (EMS) known as ambulance and paramedic services.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, we can then formally forgive these debts at no tax consequences to the recipient. Gone: the stigma and distress of being pursued by bill collectors. All this consistent with satisfying HIPPA needs.

http://www.ripmedicaldebt.org

Here are RallyPoint Group Pages – Please follow them:

https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/victory-for-veterans-foundation-fountain-valley-ca

https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/reboot-national-veterans-transition-service-inc

https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/rip-medical-debt

https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/warriors-for-life

Regards,

Mikel J. Burroughs
Colonel (Retired)
Chairman, Board of Directors
Victory for Veterans Foundation

"Respect Always - Warriors for Life!"

VFV Web: http://www.VictoryForVeterans.org
FaceBook: @VFVets (http://www.FaceBook.com/VFVets)
Twitter: @VictoryVets (http://www.twitter.com/VictoryVets)
LinkedIn: Victory For Veterans (http://www.linkedin.com/company/Victory-For-Veterans)
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An old leader of mine sent me an invite. Told me it's a great Mil networking community.

Actually, military . com stopped their social site and I searched for a replacement. Now a loyalist to RP and will be here unless one of the two of us expire.

I did a random web search on the internet and came across RallyPoint. I don't remember when I started my account...I'm sure its on my profile. I've only come across one person that I served with...and we were not buddies at all...we just happened to have the same rank and MOS, oh well.

An Email From The Veterans Administration Medical Center At Nashville,Tennessee ,Where I saw the email Menitioning where communicate with Others Veterans And Help Aides like Food Boxes,And Where I could hear from others Veterans on A host of subjects

NFL.com did away with interactive chat.

SSG (Join to see) First contact was by a search for old Vietnam companions, but i got interested in a couple of the post and started an account . I stay with it because of the respect,camaraderie and perspectives i can get from serving and more recent members of our military about the changes occurring within it. Gives me a more candid point of view than any other sources available.

saw it on VA web site while checking into comp status / interesting view points and information available

Just wanted to Had a Awesome support group to my days, And Hope it help anothers' day be brighter

Seeing R P on My smartphone during reading my V.A .emails,Trying to start connected to things take make sense to me, R.P is a great connection.AndI like to talk alot, but not so many friends And Its' real Soldiers,Officers,veterans,