Military Wellness Collective
Military Wellness Collective is made up of four friends — two retired Marines (Joshua and Brian) turned church planters and their wives (Brittany and Kelli)— who have lived life both in uniform and on the home front. Together, we share real stories, hard-earned wisdom, and practical, biblical encouragement to help military members, and their families thrive in every season. Whether you’re navigating deployments, adjusting to life in a new town, or simply seeking hope in the middle of your military journey, our mission is to equip you with truth from God’s Word and tools for a healthy, resilient life.
Military Wellness Collective
EP 57: Reintegration After a Combat Deployment and Helpful Tips for Any Homecoming
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You can leave a two-way rifle range and be back in your own bed with your spouse and kids in a matter of days and that whiplash has a cost. We sit down as Brittany and Joshua Brown with our friends Kelli and Brian O’Day to talk honestly about reintegration after a combat deployment, starting with the hardest version of deployment life and then pulling out lessons that apply to any return home.
We unpack what makes this era so challenging: constant overseas operations, irregular deployment schedules, and almost no public awareness when service members come and go. That silence can make a veteran feel unseen and can leave a military spouse without context for the sensory and emotional load their partner is carrying. We talk culture shock, why bright colors and busy rooms can feel like “too much,” and how hypervigilance in restaurants or church can be a normal post-deployment transition response, not a label you have to slap on yourself on day one.
From there, we get practical about expectations. What do the first 24 to 48 hours look like, do you want to be around people, and how do you avoid piling on pressure with well-meant plans like surprise parties? We also address the parts many couples feel but rarely say out loud: sleep disruption, nightmares, and the awkwardness of intimacy after a long separation. Finally, we share next steps that can help you heal and reconnect, including giving yourself time before big moves or separation, leaning into a local church community, and using trusted resources like Mighty Oaks and The Cove military marriage retreats.
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Are you looking for support for your family as you traverse this military life? Are you connected to a local church? If you are needing help, we'd love to help- reach out to us at hello@militarywellnesscollective.com
SHOW NOTES:
1. Mighty Oaks: Mighty Oaks | Veteran & First Responder Recovery Programs
2. Process Your Military Deployment – Brian O'Day
3. The Cove: Military Marriage Retreat—Powerless or Powerful | September 4-6, 2026
See the Cove website for a complete list of dates, they hold multiple military marriage retreats a year! Both Joshua and Brittany, along with Kelli and Brian have personally attended the military marriage retreat!
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Welcome And Why Reintegration Matters
SPEAKER_00Hey y'all. Welcome back to another episode of the Military Wellness Collective. We're really excited that you're here again with us on a Monday morning, or maybe you're listening to this later, like in the week or weeks later. Who knows?
SPEAKER_04But we should be listening at 2 a.m. one Monday. Whenever it comes to the end of the day, I mean is that when it posts?
SPEAKER_00Yes, it publishes at 2 a.m. We know some of you get up real early. When Joshua worked on the range, we got up at 3 15. So maybe this is your 3:30 commute. Good morning.
SPEAKER_043:15. Yeah. Maybe that was an interesting time. Yes, it was.
SPEAKER_00If you're new to the podcast, welcome. We're so thrilled that you found us. And we hope that we can be an encouragement to you. We want to spread a little bit of light and joy in this dark space of the world and just into the military community where we know that it can be inundated with darkness. So we hope that this podcast is an encouragement to you. Like I said, I'm Britney Brown. I'm joined by my husband Joshua Brown.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_00And then our good friends Kelly and Brian O'Day. Hello. Yeah. We are just delighted to be here. It's been raining really heavily in eastern North Carolina and we're just it's done. Yeah, we're we're loving life. Today on the episode, or on today on the podcast, this episode, we're going to talk about reintegration after a combat deployment. So if that doesn't apply to you, don't shut us off. This will apply to all deployments, but we're going to start from the top tier, like of hard, like combat. How is this hard? And then hopefully you can take some of that and apply it to reintegration from, say, a normal six to nine month deployment, whatever normal means in the military life. So we're going to talk about reintegration after combat deployments. We want to acknowledge the fact that we know some of you guys, special operators, are coming back from combat deployments often and it's not recognized in the news or as a nation really. And then with Venezuela and Iran, we have a lot of people coming and going. And that kind of is just on the sidelines as well. And so some of you guys are coming back from these places where you've experienced a lot of things. And we want to talk through what that looks like for a family when maybe not everybody around you is reintegrating from the same situation. So um, and then leave you guys with some practical helps. Do any of you guys have anything you want to say to that right away? Babe, you're looking at me with like a very inquisitive.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just to kind of set that up a little bit. I I think we're in a a different time than we've ever been when it comes to military members being all over the world all the time and in constant doing kinetic operations and then also doing a bunch of stuff that's not kinetic operations.
SPEAKER_00Can you define kinetic in case there's a new military spouse listening that hasn't heard that term?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So there's there's operations going on all over the world all the time right now where people are getting into gunfights.
SPEAKER_00So that's what kinetic operations is.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So like there's there's actual people shooting going on. The
Modern Combat Without Public Awareness
SPEAKER_01two-way rifle range. Yeah. The two-way rifle range.
SPEAKER_00How's that? Is that what he said?
SPEAKER_01But there's things like that going on, and nobody really pays attention to it here in the United States. Back in World War I, World War II, you know, when Korea ended, those kinds of things, people left combat. Like there was a start date. Like we declared war. The whole nation was a part of it. Yeah. And then a whole bunch of people left and went to war. There was gunfights. And then the war was declared over. And then when the war was declared over, a whole bunch of people came home. And then there was this, like the whole nation was paying attention to this transition for all of you know the boys returning, right? And so when those guys got home, it was of course there was difficulties, there was a transition, but everybody was kind of involved in that. Right. And then but we fast forward to today, and we're right next to a whole bunch of different units that go all over the world and do kinetic operations. And then they come home during a very irregular deployment schedule. So they just show back up. Right. And when they show back up here in the United States, nobody even really paid attention to them leaving in the first place.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01And so they're here and they're working through some of those things without the support of everybody around them, you know, helping them through that transition and recognizing it.
SPEAKER_04So and I think that's even more pronounced. We're in a military community. Yeah. Very much a military community. That's even more pronounced when guys come back from a deployment, a combat deployment, especially, and then EAS and go back to Middle America. Yeah. And it's not like World War II was, I assume, on the front page of every newspaper in the country for years.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_04Whereas the wars that are happening now are, you know, maybe on the third page of, you know, people don't read newspapers. But anyway, like they're just they're just kind of in different places. And so it's like somebody moves back to Omaha and they're like, they're like, yeah, I was, you know, shooting rockets into Iran last, you know, two months ago. And they're like, what? Which they're probably not even going to say that. They're just going to be trying to reintegrate with life with people that are have no concept for what they're talking about.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Or they're in Africa with groups of people, group groups of like African military that they've been training, and they're doing operations with them and then coming back. And it's like, whoa, very different culture, very different place, very different things happening. Yeah. And just nobody around them even knows what's going on, you know.
SPEAKER_04So I think one of
Culture Shock And Sensory Overload
SPEAKER_04the big like maybe we could spend some time thinking about what are the transitions. So one is a culture shift, and culture shock is always a thing, right? And so, and there's two cultures we're engaging with. One is the exclusively military culture, right? So, like when you're when you're back at Camp Lejeune or Fort Bragg or you know, somewhere else, you're in the military culture kind of during the day, but then you go home or you go to the field for a couple weeks and then you go home. And so you're you're still kind of interacting with civilians. So you've got military culture and civilian culture. When you're deployed, especially in a combat zone, it is only the military culture you're interacting with. And it is a hyper-focused, like very much, it's the most military of the military version of the culture. Like so, so we're we're doing those things. So it's a culture shift. And then also wherever you happen to be, you're you're in that culture as well, which is very different. Afghanistan culture is very different than Eastern North Carolina culture. I know that may sound like a surprise to some, but it's very different. Iraq is a very different culture than Oklahoma that I went back to pretty quickly. And so we just so culture shock is a piece of it, right? So that's one of the shifts. What other shifts are there as we come back from some of these deployments?
SPEAKER_05I think expectations.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I don't know if that's falls into the right thing that you're talking about. But I think there's a shift there. Expectations of what it will be like on both sides, like the the service member, like what yeah, just that expectation of what it's gonna be like to be back home, what they're gonna receive from their spouse or their family, and then on the spouse side, what that's gonna look like. So I just think we have seen that play out so much. We have the privilege and opportunity to have a group meet in our home of deployed marriage, like you know, couples and people that are gone. So it's usually the spouse spouse that's here. Yeah, there's a lot of people. And we just hear that a lot of just like the different expectations.
SPEAKER_04So talking about that is yeah, another one, uh some like some things are just really internal, right? And so one is uh colors. So uh Joshua and I were deployed to deserts. And so when when you're on a when you're in a desert for, you know, six, seven, eight, nine months, and everybody around you is wearing drab clothing or desert camouflage, like I feel like I saw the color brown for like seven straight months. Yeah, and when I flew into eastern North Carolina in late summer, it felt like there were so like the color like over and over again.
SPEAKER_05You're like, it's so green. It's so green.
SPEAKER_04I was like, it's so like it just it almost hurt the eyes. Yeah, and then like we'd go to we'd go to church or restaurant, and people are wearing like bright clothes, it just felt so bright and colorful and loud. And then also like the context. So me deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, I don't ever recall being in an enclosed space with 150 other human beings. That would be a very dangerous situation. Like I would be on heightened alert. I remember I would do some like gatherings with locals as a leader, and we'd be in a confined room with like eight people, like a couple Marines and a few of them as well, a few locals, and that was a heightened alert moment. And now I go into a church building and I'm in a closed-in room with 150 people, and I'm on heightened alert because this is a dangerous situation, because I've been in a culture where that's a dangerous situation. I go into a restaurant where there's people coming in and out at all times, all different types of people wearing all different types of things. I don't know who they are, I don't know why they're there. That's a heightened situation. And so if you're experiencing that,
Hypervigilance Sleep And Night Reactions
SPEAKER_04if you've ever experienced that before, just so you know, all that is very normal.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04We don't need to throw labels on it yet of that's PTSD or whatever else. Like that is just you are transitioning. You actually can't be diagnosed with PTSD, I'm pretty sure, until six months after the traumatic event. You're just processing just nor like this is a massive transition, and your body and your mind is trying to process all that in a very quick manner.
SPEAKER_00Like now y'all just fly back and forth.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_00So, like you could be in a combat situation in 48 hours. You're like sleeping next to your wife with toddlers.
SPEAKER_04How long was it for you? Oh, from the time we left? From yeah, you left a combat zone to you were at home with your family.
SPEAKER_01So we rolled into Kuwait first. Yeah. And I think we were there for which was technically still kinetics place. So yeah, I flew out. We went we went through the first time we went through Ireland, I think, and the whole like green. We did too. I was everything colorful. I was it was sensory overload for sure. And then we flew straight in. So yeah, within within seeing some colors for the first time, and then getting on Camp Pendleton and seeing my wife was like 24 hours.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah, from Kuwait, and you had a couple days in Kuwait. But like from legit combat zone to home is about 72 hours these days. Yeah, it's pretty quick. Yeah. Yeah. Which is crazy.
SPEAKER_01That's not much time.
SPEAKER_00No, and you're talking like you haven't had time to process.
SPEAKER_01And when you show back up, you literally come off of a bus, put your rifle in a thing in a place to secure it, lock it up, and then walk away and go and see your family.
SPEAKER_05I don't think I ever felt the weight of that until later. Like, you know, like I don't know. I guess I just never thought about all that when you stepped off the bus. Yeah, because we're so excited. Like, that's my husband. We're not thinking, or I wasn't thinking, like this is what he's coming from. I just wasn't.
SPEAKER_00I was like, he's home finally. So as a wife, that's helpful to think through, right? Like we hope that it is like for our experience. Like some of you younger wives out there can really think about that. Like, how can I minister to my husband well from the beginning? Yes. When he steps off. And hopefully it will help you manage your expectations for him. Like you just want him to be home and you want life to be back to what it was before he left. And that is not the reality.
SPEAKER_04And you want some help with this toddler. Yes. And you're like, and he's like, that's scary to me. He's holding the baby like a football. Right. Or is like, I mean, you just deal with problems differently. Like the way you yeah.
SPEAKER_05Maybe you don't trust the way that you would handle situations.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean the way if you're in a combat zone, if you are in leadership, which you know, eight, ninety percent of people in the military are in charge of other people, right? Just kind of by the nature of how we're structured. So you're in charge of other people. In a combat zone, if someone if you tell somebody to do something and they disobey it, like that is an awful offense that must be addressed immediately in this moment, right? And so when we come back and it's like this toddler's like, no, like because you're a stranger and you're like, or a teenager, like, no. You're like, whoa, this is a problem that needs to be addressed immediately because danger. Right. It's danger. And so you're just responding to all that, and it's it's a lot. I just I just want to say it's a lot.
SPEAKER_01Something I didn't expect, and I don't think Britney did either. I didn't sleep much on deployment. So and you were always in this heightened state of go, go, go. And so getting home, you don't just like put that away. So you have all this energy and you're used to going 20 hours a day, and then you get home and it's like, whoa, slow down, calm down, rest. And it's like, yeah, but I don't really know how to rest. Right. I'm just I want to go and accomplish whatever we need to accomplish to be done with it.
SPEAKER_00I also think like the sleeping thing, I wasn't prepared for like the nightmares or I don't want to say violent because you weren't like violent towards me, but like just like violent waking up of like your life, you know, feeling like it's threatened. And I think if I could go back and change one thing, I would have talked more about that with the wives whose husbands just came home. We were really focused on getting you guys together and you guys processing and talking through it. And we weren't so great at like talking through some of that until it got to a point where it was like, whoa, this happened last night. Do I need to say something? It was a complete accident in the middle of the night, you know, things like that. Like you guys need to be talking with people that are going through the same thing and and encouraging your spouse to do the same. If they've been in combat and then they come back and
Expectations Patience And Space To Process
SPEAKER_00they're not meeting with other guys that were in combat with them and they're able to process that, you're probably gonna experience a heightened everything, heightened emotions, heightened sensations, lack of sleep, all the things if they cannot process through, and it would be beneficial for y'all to process through as well with people.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's really helpful. So I I'm convinced that one thing that would help the service member is to have some a a with some healthy kind of boundaries around it, some time to himself to process what in the world's going on. And some time one-on-one with maybe a a veteran, combat veteran who who can also share some stories and have some some of the conversation we're we're kind of having through podcast here. I think that would be really helpful. And so if the spouse is like, I've missed you, I need you, and any moment apart from each other means that something's drastically wrong in our marriage, like that that that can actually be counterproductive. And so I would just encourage some patience of kind of what Kelly was saying, like just to realize like this is a massive transition for him. I would say for the service member, it's a massive, massive transition for her and for the kids and for the family and everything else as well. And so we just need to like have some patience to you're not gonna solve all these problems in the first 24 hours. You're not gonna like you all need to process and just like you need some time to process this.
SPEAKER_00I think you also need to be very honest with what has happened and how that has changed your marriage, the family, the dynamic, how it has changed your spouse, yeah, and and give grace.
SPEAKER_04That's another massive uh transition that is happening, like a shift that is happening. So people do not stay stationary. No, people are always changing, and so every relationship you left is different, or every person is different, and so your marriage is different, your spouse is different, and so just acknowledge like saying some of this stuff out loud hopefully can be helpful. Like you're a different person. I need to I need to catch up or I need to process this. It's most like obvious with kids. So we have a woman we're walking through this with at our church, her husband left, and this their son, their first son, was like a baby. Oh, yeah. When he comes back, he will be a toddler, the son.
SPEAKER_02That's a big difference.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, when he left, it was just drooling all over itself.
SPEAKER_04She's asking like, hey, what when he starts reaching for the outlet, which he's just started doing, what do what do I do? Do I smack his hand? Do I pluck his hand? Do I like how do I do this? Those were not conversations they were having. Right. It's like, yeah, they're at yeah, it's so infant to toddlerhood. So that's most obvious there, but it's true with everybody. The church has changed, the family has changed, the kids have changed, the spouse has changed, like all of these things are are constantly changing. And so we've gotta we've got to interact with that and and and allow there to be some transition time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and back to what Kelly was saying, expectations. Uh if you can adjust your expectations beforehand, it will vastly help the reintegration process on both sides because a lot of the guys coming home, they have these expectations of showing up and just everything being perfect and everything being great, and them just you know falling back into regular routines again. But like, no, no, no. Life moved on after you left. So you have to come in with an open idea of what that's gonna look like and then adjust accordingly. And then for the wives back home, y'all probably speak better to this, but like you probably had some expectations that weren't met when we came home. Um and that became a bigger struggle. Whereas if you had expectations of, well, I don't really have any expect I know we're gonna be back together, but I don't know what it's gonna look like, then you're a little you're not losing this idea of what you wanted it to look like. You don't have to mourn that. You can just focus on what is present before you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I
Planning The First 48 Hours Home
SPEAKER_05think one practical thing that we've heard people do, and this is from some of the stuff you uh maybe from the blog. I don't remember everything that's on there, but they have that conversation as they're leading up to their spouse coming back. Like, hey, what do you expect your first 24 hours or 48 hours to look like when you get home so that you're not on totally different ends of like, well, I expect that, you know, like do you want to be around people? Like if they're getting, I mean, we had one that got home on Saturday, and so she was like, Do you want to go to church on Sunday or do you want to just like maybe that's too much to, you know, do the next day after you get back? And so I think like, I don't know, I just feel like we've heard a lot of spouses say that has been such a practical step of, and I don't know if we maybe by the third deployment we did that, I don't remember. But yeah, I think that's really good because and just know, I mean, all these things that we're saying, like it's gonna be so different for that service member. I didn't really know because Brian didn't tell me what he was doing, he didn't tell me all the things that were going on. So in my mind, I didn't know how. How drastically different it was going to be getting back to the States. And that I mean that's just a part of their job. Like he's not telling me all the things that's going on. So it's like, you know, hindsight, you learn all these things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I've heard of nowadays like distant family members are now coming in for like parties saying, Oh, you're coming back, we're gonna come meet you. And like they have they have relatives at the house when they show up. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05I mean, everybody's different what they are.
SPEAKER_01Nightmare for some of these guys coming home because they're like, this is too much. Feels like a lot. Yeah. Gotta ease into it.
SPEAKER_04This may be our personality, but I don't think it is. I don't. I can't really imagine. Now that I'm a little, yeah, I don't definitely in that a welcome home surprise party. Yeah, no. No, you feel like a really bad idea. It's a horrible idea.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, do not be yelling at anyone coming through the door after combat. Or surprise, like surprise. No, don't surprise it.
SPEAKER_04I tell my kids to this day. Every once in a while, kids like to like sneak up behind dad and like do something. And I'm like, I don't think you want to do that. Like, I think you're relatively safe, but that's not. But we don't need to test it. Let's not test it.
SPEAKER_00I just I think it it's so interesting now because as as you guys are talking about like surprising people and coming home. I and Kelly, I just don't think we we didn't really have even have the opportunity to talk about like what would you expect in 24 hours? Like that just wasn't happening. So if we're talking about combat reintegration, I'm not even really sure. Some of you might not have that ability. Like, yeah, I know we have a lot more communication, but you might not have that ability. And so maybe be thinking through that. Like as a wife, you might think he wants a three-course meal because you want to cook roast and all these things, and all he wants is pizza and a soda or something. You know, something just to leave that space for like a change, to be flexible, yes, and just gracious with each other, patient, patient, moon track, read through First Corinthians 13, you know, be kind, gentle. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Lord, Lord willing, we'll put a link to an article I wrote that's that's preparing for reunification, like that lat those last couple weeks. So, like literally, if you just share that article with your spouse, or you ask some of the questions with that, that that could be helpful. You could start that a month out, two weeks out, whatever. And it's okay to like say, Hey, we're gonna some of this could change, but yeah, the couple you were mentioning, they were talking about he was coming back, yeah, I think Friday, and it was they were talking about church on Sunday, but also they their rhythm before he left was going going to CrossFit class on Saturday morning, and she's like, Are you gonna want to do that or not do that or whatever? And he was like, Yeah, I I think so. But anyway, it was at least it was a conversation, and it was and she knew, hey, he might want to do that or he may not want to do that, and can I
Intimacy After Time Apart
SPEAKER_04can I be fine with either one?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, can I call out a universal truth that ends up happening with spouses is how intimacy happens upon reunification. And I just want to call out the awkwardness that sometimes occurs. And quite just to be frank, like you've been apart for a long time. So you may have to it may feel weird, just like being intimate with your wife, being intimate with your spouse is is a very normal thing, but when you haven't done it in a really long time, you felt strangers.
SPEAKER_02You have to kind of read and like a rap, yeah.
SPEAKER_01My encouragement would just be to try to just get through your awkwardness and just be excited for each other and and just get through it. And I hate to put it through that out there, but like I'm serious. And I don't know how to do it. I just feel weird right now. But you feel weird. So you you know, l let your your desire for one another get you through that awkwardness and and get back to loving each other well.
SPEAKER_04I think it's so helpful that you said that. Like, hey, it might be weird for a little while. It's okay for it to be weird. So like again, if you're if you did the deployment well, you have been shutting down that side of your you know, love for one another, desire for one another, and just natural biology. And to then say, Oh, open it up, you know, oh, now it's okay. And it's it it almost there's some some aspects that feels like first time wedding night type stuff where it's like, is this okay? What you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I think one thing that is like it's just a mix of the emotions of like yes, we're like you were saying, we're different people after, so it's we feel like strangers, but then in another way, it's like you never left after you know a day or two. It's just like this weird mix of that. Like you're a stranger, but you're not, it's like you never left. So it's just like this is weird. I mean, I've always simultaneously. I remember saying that out loud to somebody, like I feel both things in different times. So it's pretty cool though.
SPEAKER_04Can I give uh thanks for taking us there, Joshua? Uh a couple other
Slow Down Then Use Proven Resources
SPEAKER_04just real practical things. So if you can, because one of my big points is you need to take some time and process. The military loves, especially in the Marine Corps, we may be the worst at it, but we love moving people right after a deployment and we love separating people right after a deployment because like you're done to us, and so like, cool, now we need you to end the next job, and or now we need you to get out of the military. If you can, with any leverage or power you have, if you can give yourself a extra six months, that would be great. I moved 30 days after leaving combat one time and I separated from active duty four months after leaving a combat zone uh another time. And so that wasn't good. Um, and so if you can give yourself some time, hey, can I put in an extension for six months? Can I put an extension for a year? Can I like that would be helpful?
SPEAKER_00Would you recommend that for any deployment or just combat?
SPEAKER_04It depends. I mean, okay, yeah. I mean, and the military could say no, but then maybe take a little longer on your you know, moving leave or your post-deployment leave or whatever the case is. Like, take that time to process, slow yourself down, it'll actually speed you up later on. And so that's a big one. The other one, and this is is just a and hopefully we can put a link in. Mighty Oaks. Mighty Oaks is a warrior transition program, faith-based warrior transition program. Joshua and I are both graduates of their men's legacy program. Highly recommended, highly recommended. Lots of our friends are counselors in that as well. And it's just really helpful. It's a week or it's a multiple-day retreat that you go to and really just process through with other guys who have been through similar things what God has for you in response to it. So Mighty Oaks, sign up to go to that would be very helpful. And that's not just for active duty, it's for any veteran out there. Yeah, mostly veterans, anything. Lots of active duty as well. And and this is also for law enforcement first responders as well. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I'll also put a link to the Cove. They have military marriage retreats. And so maybe if you know roundabout time your spouse is coming back, you could sign up for one of those. That'd be a good time to get away to process some of that stuff together. Of course, if you live on the East Coast, it's a lot easier to get to. It's free for military. The only thing, well, free, the event is free, but you do have to pay to get yourself there. So if you live on the West Coast, you'll have to pay for it. Oh, okay. So I'm I'm correcting sixty dollars.
SPEAKER_04But that's great. Yeah, it's in Asheville. Mighty Oaks is also free. They actually will pay to get you there as well. And so these are free resources. You just have to dedicate the time or you know, the COVID, you got to get yourself to Asheville, North Carolina. And again, they charge a nominal fee to reduce their cancellations. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I'm sure if the fee is an issue, we can tell your friends, tell your church, somebody will help you. Yes, it is very, very beneficial. Hopefully, some of this conversation was helpful if we just process through what it looks like to reintegrate after
Church Support And Next Week Preview
SPEAKER_00a combat deployment. And we're just thankful you guys are here. We do not take it lightly that you allow us to speak into your lives. We pray that you are connected to a local church, be talking about these things with people in your local community. And we do look forward to seeing you guys back here next week. A preview for the topic. You won't want to miss it. We're gonna talk about finances, okay? And budgeting. So we'll see you guys back here on Monday. See y'all later.