Veteran suicide prevention work needs 'fundamental change,' says Mission Roll Call — here's how
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Shortly after he was honorably discharged for an injury in 2014, Marine combat veteran Cole Lyle, who resides in Alexandria, Virginia, found himself at what he termed "a pretty low place." He was in the midst of a divorce, was unemployed, wasn't in school — and "felt disconnected from the guys I had served with," he said.
He perceived that his family did not understand what he was going through, he said. He was coping with post-traumatic stress as well as panic attacks. "I was, admittedly, drinking too much," he told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. "I had a gun, and was about one pound of trigger pull away from shooting myself in the head." Cole Lyle today serves as the executive director of Mission Roll Call.
Earlier, he worked as an adviser to senior leadership at Veterans Affairs and on veteran policy in the U.S. Senate. Cole was honorably discharged as a non-commissioned officer in the Marine Corps after serving for six years, including a deployment to Afghanistan. (Mission Roll Call) Before that awful act could take place, a fellow Marine showed up at the door with some movies and food — and sat with Lyle for the rest of the night, he said.
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