The SQUAD: Encouraging Veteran to Veteran Dialogue

Discharged combat veterans with multiple deployments need messages of hope and healing from prior and current military personnel. Veterans who have successfully transitioned out of the service and into civillian life, come to grips with the value of life in the face of traumatic scenarios in The Squad.

Veterans who fought to save their buddies lives in combat, now are encouraged to fight for their own life and place in the civilian world verses taking their life. They are encouraged to seek the company of those discharged or soon to be discharged, in an effort to lessen feelings of isolation and depression that feed suicidal thinking and actions. 

The Chinook carrying the aircraft back for repairs symbolizes the process of current veterans wanting to assist or help carry those about to be or have been discharged back to civilian life.