EP156: Battle Buddies For Life - The Ultimate Relationship!
CYPOV Podcast is dedicated to helping Veterans become just as successful out of uniform as they were when they were in.
This week on Change Your POV Podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Gene Bryant the CEO and Founder of Battle Buddies For Life, a 501c3 non-profit veteran service organization.
It is the mission of Battle Buddies For Life to help veterans and their immediate families during their times of need or crises while focusing on live-enabling skills in order to prevent suicide.
If you or someone you know is struggling and just needs to talk to someone Battle Buddies For Life is a great place to start!
Call anytime 24 x 7 at 803-768-LIFE (5433)
IN THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:
After 9 deployments with the Army, and surviving all of them but seeing my friends and brothers and sisters in arms die, Gene wanted to do one last deployment. This last deployment Gene was hoping would be considered his suicide mission. I didn’t want to continue living my life when all others have
He didn’t want to continue living life when all others around him died. He felt he should have died too. Gene then decided to start Battle Buddies For Life (BBFL) once he retired from the Army in October of 2012. It took about 6 months for his pay to start coming in from the Veteran’s Affairs Office which almost caused him to lose his house and caused big problems with his family.
Gene vowed to never let anything like this happen to any other Veteran if I could help it.
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