When I think of suicide, I don’t think of annual training slides, 22 pushup challenges, or the “thoughts and prayers” from social media posts. Instead, I think about the phone call with my mom. I think about needing to call her because I had just been told that my friend had taken his own life. […]
Samuel Caleb Sturm
Samuel Caleb Sturm is a communications officer on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. He enlisted in 2013 and was commissioned in 2018. He has been stationed in 29 Palms (California), Camp Lejeune (North Carolina), and the Marine Corps Base Quantico (Virginia). He is currently a student at the Expeditionary Warfare School.
