Lornett Vestal was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He joined the United States Navy at the age of seventeen. He served four years honorably and was deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. He’s traveled to various countries including Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Estonia. He has a BA in Sociology from Northern Illinois University and a Master’s Degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. He spent several years working in education and social work at Chicago Public Schools and non-profit organizations through the City of Chicago.

Lornett is currently the Lead Campaign Representative, Sierra Club Military Outdoors. In that role, he works with Sierra Club staff, volunteers, and outside community and nonprofit organizations to build the Military Outdoors program in Georgia and throughout the United States. His hope is to create several active outings groups over the next two the three years.  

The PsychArmor Resource of the Week is the PsychArmor course on Intimacy and Emotional Disconnect in Military Populations. This course investigates links between emotional disconnection and relationship intimacy issues that are often seen among Veteran and active duty military couples. There are a number of reasons why service members and veterans may disconnect from those they care about, and you can learn more about those reasons through this course. You can check it out by going to this link: https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/intimacy-and-emotional-disconnect-in-military-populations

 

This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.

Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.