I'm Cody Kuluski from Thunder Bay. I had nine years in the infantry out in Shilo, Manitoba, and one tour to Afghanistan in 2008. Since I've been back I've had some troubles. They said that if you needed help, you should go and ask for help. Since I started asking for help, they literally threw me out the door as fast as possible. You're a black flag, a black sheep, as soon as you ask for any kind of help at all in the military. My life has been a shambles pretty much since I've been released.
I went to school during the JPSU. It was all right. And then you have the option when you're released of having two years where you're pretty much ordered and forced to go to school after just being released for a medical reason, or you don't get school. So I did that, and then my life fell apart again because, if I didn't go to school within that two years, I'd lose everything. I went to school and literally lost everything—my house, my wife, my whole life—and now I'm living in my parents' basement. It's not good. I wish I had had some time off to relax after being released medically before going to school, and now I don't even know where I'm going or anything. I'm completely lost.
Now I see that there are some things that I didn't even know about, like Ste. Anne's Hospital. I wasn't too sure what that was until I read these questions, and about a bunch of these other programs. There was a place to go for me, and no one was doing anything.
I'm just in a hard place right now. I'm glad to be here though.