We, as a cohort of 4 plus our instructor, have been learning to take off our armor in order to walk with someone through their own personal hell.
Before we can walk with someone, we must evaluate our own journeys.
The cohort, missing a few and with a few other fresh faces, spent 3 days at Iejima (formerly Ie Shima) island, studying the ASSIST program. ASSIST is designed to educate and train junior Marines in the case where a fellow Marine tells them that they want to commit suicide. Rather than just run to the chaplain or run it up their chain of command, they learn how to actively listen and not panic.
The same applies to chaplains.
In order to help process what we were studying and what we were sharing, the group of us decided to hike up Mount Gushku.
And as a bonus, we got to see the cherry blossoms blooming.
Kim Reid and I at the top of Mount Gushku.
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