Spiritual Minded Military Utah Army National Guard: Why Do Utah Veterans Struggle to Ask for Help — The Pride Protocol

 

Camp Williams is located on the base of the Wasatch Front. The mountainous terrain is to the east. To the west, the salt flats extend. It is a beautiful valley. The valley is a sacred one. The valley is silent.

Utah is different. The culture is deep-rooted. Self-reliance is not a value. One of the commandments is self-reliance. You do not oppress people. You do not vent your plight. You store your issues in the garage or in the closed door or in the sound of the noise of the lawnmower.

The foe is fond of Utah. He enjoys the silence. He is fond of the pressure to seem all right. He adores the veteran who smiles in church on Sunday and drinks alone in the garage on Tuesday.

You do not fail. You are in a culture that rewards dishonesty. The escape route is the Pride Protocol.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." — 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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THE ANSWER: YOU WERE RAISED TO BE SILENT

This is the reason why Utah veterans find it hard to seek assistance.

You have been brought up as an independent person. You have been taught that to fight is weak. You have heard that faith is not requiring assistance. You heard that requesting assistance is a character weakness.

This was enhanced by the military. The Army informed you that you should be tough. The Army instructed you to plow through. The Army informed you that the mission should be first. You learned to turn your pain into an obligation.

The enemy made the bringing up of your life into a weapon. He applied self-reliance and transformed it into solitude. He embraced toughness and made it silence. He believed and transformed it into pretending.

The veteran of Utah refuses to seek help, as seeking help is tantamount to betraying all the things that he was taught. This is turned against you by the enemy. He has been years using it.

"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom." — Proverbs 11:2

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THE GARAGE DOOR TEST

You know the test. Thou hast lived it a thousand times.

Its garage door is down. The vehicle is parked in the driveway. Neighbors believe that you are alright. Your family believes that you are alright. Your church believes that you are okay.

Inside the garage, the bottle is open. The shame is thick. The silence is noisy.

The enemy is able to pass the garage door test on a daily basis. It has been several years that he has been passing it. The door opener is the Pride Protocol.

The garage is the place where Utah veterans conceal themselves. Not due to your weakness. Since you have nothing left to do. The church hopes that you will be okay. The family hopes that you will be alright. The people want you to be okay.

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THE PRIDE PROTOCOL

Pride is not the problem. Misplaced pride is the problem. The enemy took your healthy pride in self-reliance and twisted it into a prison.

The Pride Protocol untwists it.

Step One: Name the Prison

Your prison is not the garage. Your prison is the belief that asking for help makes you less of a man, less of a soldier, less of a believer. Name that belief. Write it down. "I believe that asking for help is weakness."

Step Two: Test the Belief

Is asking for help weakness? When your battle buddy asked for cover, was that weakness? When your unit requested reinforcements, was that weakness? When you called in a medevac, was that weakness?

Asking for help is not weakness. Asking for help is a tactic. You have been asking for help your whole career. You just never applied it to your own soul.

Step Three: Find One Person

You do not need to announce your struggle to the whole church. You need one person. One battle buddy. One veteran. One person who will not judge you.

Find one person. Tell them one thing. "I am struggling. I do not know what to do." That is not weakness. That is a call for reinforcements.

Step Four: Wear Your Colors

Put on your Spiritual Minded Military shirt. Wear it to the grocery store. Wear it to church. Wear it to the armory. The uniform declares what you cannot yet say. "I am a veteran. I am struggling. I am not hiding anymore."

The Pride Protocol does not ask you to abandon your pride. The Pride Protocol asks you to aim your pride at the right target. Pride in hiding is the enemy's weapon. Pride in fighting is yours.

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THE CAMP WILLIAMS FORMATION

Camp Williams is your training ground. Bluffdale. The Oquirrh Mountains to the west. The Wasatch to the east. You have stood in formation there a hundred times.

Formation is not a place. Formation is a posture. You can stand in formation anywhere.

Your former is the veteran you call once a week. Your formation is the coffee shop where you meet other veterans. Your formation is the online group where you type what you cannot say out loud.

The enemy wants you to believe that formation only happens at Camp Williams. He wants you isolated between drill weekends. He wants you to forget that the formation exists wherever two or three are gathered.

The Pride Protocol assembles the formation. You are not asking for help. You are reporting for duty.

"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." — Galatians 6:2

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THE UTAH LIE DETECTOR

The enemy has been feeding you lies. He has been feeding them to you since childhood. Here are the lies. Here is the truth.

Lie One: "Your struggle will disappoint your family."

Your family already knows something is wrong. They do not know what. They are scared. They are waiting for you to speak. Your silence is hurting them more than your struggle.

Lie Two: "Your faith community will reject you."

The church is full of struggling people. They are just better at hiding. Your honesty gives them permission to be honest too.

Lie Three: "You should be able to handle this yourself."

You cannot handle this yourself. That is why you are reading this at 2 AM. That is why the bottle is in the garage. That is why the shame is thick. You cannot handle it yourself. No one can. That is why God gave you a community.

Name the lie. Say it out loud. "That is Lie One. My family already knows something is wrong." Your voice breaks the spell.

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Conclusion

Utah Army National Guard, you were raised to be silent. You were taught that asking for help is weakness. The enemy has been using your upbringing as a weapon.

The Pride Protocol is not about abandoning your values. The Pride Protocol is about aiming your pride at the right target.

Name the prison. Test the belief. Find one person. Wear your colors. Stand in formation.

You are not weak for asking for help. You are a soldier calling for reinforcements. The enemy wants you isolated. The Remnant wants you surrounded.

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This is the Spiritual Minded Military Pride Protocol for the Utah Army National Guard. The garage is not your formation. The silence is not your strength. Ask for help. Fall in.

The Remnant does not transition. The Remnant re-enlists.

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