In order for anybody to bridge the gap with a military member, trust is required. The military people don't trust very easily. That's why you'll always find them sitting with their back to the wall and facing the door.
Anybody who is going to do any therapy needs to understand where these people are coming from. We talk a different language. It's all TLAs, three-letter acronyms. If you don't understand what they're saying, how can you help them?
Right now we have an eight-hour immersion on “military-ese”, on rank structure, brotherhood, family, brother and sisterhood, the dynamics within units, the regiments, the military as a whole.
If you get an army person, an air force person, and a navy person in a bar, they're likely to start a fight, but if there are three of them in a bar and a civvy starts a fight with them, they're all jumping in together to help each other.