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The past year has been challenging for many of us. How have you reduced stress or worry? How are your friends and family managing their stress?
While stress is a normal part of the human experience, long-term stress can negatively impact our health, outlook, and sense of well-being. If you feel like the previous ways you've reduced stress are not working, it may be time to try something new.
This free, online resource can help. Through brief, self-paced lessons, learn new techniques to manage stress at your own pace whenever you need help.
This educational course was created by mental health experts at Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) and is available at no cost to all veterans, service members, and military family members - CONUS and OCONUS.
While stress is a normal part of the human experience, long-term stress can negatively impact our health, outlook, and sense of well-being. If you feel like the previous ways you've reduced stress are not working, it may be time to try something new.
This free, online resource can help. Through brief, self-paced lessons, learn new techniques to manage stress at your own pace whenever you need help.
This educational course was created by mental health experts at Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) and is available at no cost to all veterans, service members, and military family members - CONUS and OCONUS.
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I felt an overwhelming sense of stress in my 19th year in the army. I experienced a poignant and seminal moment when I went to the 9 mm range. I did my first iteration and flunked. I tried 3 more times with more intensity. I could not qualify on the 9 mm. It was quite humbling because I had a background in aviation and tanks. I had qualified with a 120 mm cannon but not on the smallest gun in the army. I had intimations that I was not good for the army and I became irrelevant. It was my duty to retire and get out. I was sad for myself but I had to be honest and prepare myself to hang up my boots. Sometimes that is just the way of the world.
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SFC Melvin Brandenburg
I hear you sir. I left because I didn't feel I was the most effective soldier in my position, to make room for someone more effective, mainly because of the injuries that piled up over the years and deployments.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SFC Melvin Brandenburg - You are a good man. I had to balance what is good for me and what is good for the army. The army won out.
Did u get 2 retire?
Did u get 2 retire?
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