 and your community. Mid-South Sailors kicked off Suicide Prevention Month with a proclamation signing and awareness walk. Leadership encourages Sailors across the fleet to work together this year to promote Suicide Prevention Month. It's very important to get the word out and get people to know that there shouldn't be a stigma about this. It is a medical condition like anything else. You should feel free to come forward and seek aid. Gordon says Sailors who feel overwhelmed by stress should talk to someone. Oftentimes people have an inkling, have some indicator that something is a mess with their friends, their coworkers, even their subordinates or superiors, but nobody wants to come forward and say something, step up and say, hey, I think you need to talk to someone. Leadership also encourages commands to get their Sailors involved in Suicide Prevention Month through command events and community outreach. The goal of everybody is to have a solid, reliable, effective warfighting machine. When people are struggling with mental, physical or any kind of other issues, it detracts from that. So the goal of all of us is to get everybody back on their feet at 100% and move in the direction of supporting the mission. For more information and resources, visit the Navy's Suicide Prevention website at www.suicide.navy.mil. From Navy Personnel Command, I'm Petty Officer Andrea Perez.