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<p>By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jacquelyn D. Childs<br><br>The nature of my job as a mass communication specialist allows me the opportunity to get involved in many different associations and activities around the command. One of the first events I had the chance to see when I arrived at Navy Medicine Education and Training Command (NMETC) on Joint Base San Antonio – Fort Sam Houston, Texas, was the staff and students at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) gathering in a field by the barracks to hold a ceremony and plant hundreds of small flags forming a ribbon to raise suicide awareness. CSADD had coordinated and hosted the event for anyone and everyone who wanted to participate not long after an airman at the school had taken their life.<br><br>This was my introduction to Navy Medicine Training Support Center’s (NMTSC) CSADD chapter. Everywhere else I’d been in the Navy, CSADD stood for the “Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions.” But at NMTSC they call themselves the “Coalition of Servicemembers Against Destructive Decisions” since they invite all staff and students in the joint training environment including Army and Air Force to get involved.<br></p>
<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Training Support Center; suicide; Navy Medicine Live blog</div>
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