 I am Penny Lovett-Brown and I served in the United States Army Air Defense Artillery 32nd Division. I don't think I was prepared for the world at hand at 18, but at the time I was also a single mom. And having my son and making sure that I could provide for him, along with fulfilling my lifelong dream, I come from a family that does not speak of past hurts. We kind of push it under the rug and you're supposed to continue on. You're supposed to tough it out. So that was hard for me. I definitely did the drinking. Never did the drugs, but I did the drinking. And then I went on not knowing that I was broken for years. There is no manual saying where to go next. Follow these dots in the VA health care. I would say pay our psychologist and psychiatrist more money. Stop the turnover. The turnover within the VA health care system of keeping good people on for longer periods of time is the hardest thing to do when you're dealing with any type of mental health. Of having to start over constantly with a new doctor where you got finally comfortable with one. The VA health care system is the largest health care system in the world. And we have some things that we got to work out, of course. Is it perfect? No, but no health care system is. Are we getting better? Absolutely. Absolutely because there's people like me. There's a me for me now.