Home Base

After 30 years of service in the Marine Corps and being deployed 7 times – including facing combat in the infamous Battle of Fallujah – Master Gunnery Sergeant (MGySgt) Ismael Sagredo faced ongoing challenges...

Excellence. Valor. Honor. These are the tenets of service on which Army Veteran Sergeant Ezequiel “Zeek” Grimaldo prided himself and his fellow Airborne soldiers. Their training was rigorous yet preparatory for the battles they...

Army Veteran, First Sergeant Adam Engelhart, knows firsthand the wounds of war—both visible and invisible. He has lived through them in ways that few can imagine. While deployed, Adam watched as his Commander and...

Vietnam and Marine Corps Veteran Joseph Suina, a member of the Cochiti Pueblo, in New Mexico knows firsthand how the physical – and invisible – wounds of war impact daily life. “It was very...

“I want you to know that Home Base can change your life. Put aside these notions, put aside the stigma and take care of yourself. There is so much work to be done here...

Meet Julian Kitching, SFC (Ret.). Julian sought care at Home Base after an attempt to take his own life in 2017. He describes the overwhelming guilt and anxiety he felt that led him to...

Noriko Stern attended Home Base’s Intensive Clinical Programs for Families of the Fallen after the sudden loss of her husband who took his own life after suffering from invisible wounds related to his military...

Meet Darnell Johnson: Navy Veteran and Home Base Alumnus Darnell Johnson joined the U.S. Navy in 1978 for opportunity and a way out of the Detroit neighborhood he called home. He had no way...