By Ben Piven
After serving as a cannoneer sergeant for five years in the early 1980s, three decades later, Schultz was living out of his truck, barely getting by.
In search of a comfortable bed and open to learning from the experiences of fellow veterans, he finally checked into a Veterans Resource Center (VRC) in July 2014.
“I loved when I served,” said Schultz. “I came from a very broken home [with] not much family support. So when I joined, it was all good from there. I learned how to be a Marine and nothing else. You always had somebody on your side.”
Although appreciative of the esprit de corps in the Marines, he quit the military to be back with his family, only to have his wife leave him the following year, he said. Then he spiraled out of control.
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