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At Rally Point Apparel we strive to bring awareness to issue veterans face through our eye-catching patriot shirts. My name is Chad Childers, and I am the proud owner and founder here at Rally Point Apparel. I am an Army veteran and was deployed with the 2nd Ranger Battalion to Afghanistan in 2002. I was also deployed to Iraq in 2003 with the 82nd Airborne Division. As a combat veteran I struggled to integrate back into normal society as a civilian. Like so many other veterans in order to cope with the effects of PTSD I drank heavily. I ended...

Barriers For Veterans Getting Help with PTSD  What keeps most veterans from receiving the care they need in relation to PTSD? This article will explain the barriers preventing veterans from getting the proper care they need for their PTSD.  The Department of Veterans Affairs states that on va.gov that there are over 1,293 health care facilities, including 171 medical centers and 1,112 outpatient sites. Even with this many VA healthcare facilities some veterans still don’t receive the care they need. Why? Maybe the VA facilities are in an inconvenient location. If that is the case a veteran can now request...

My name is Chad Childers and I am a veteran and the proud owner here at Rally Point Apparel. Rally Point Apparel is a Veteran Owned Business. Here at Rally Point Apparel we sell custom designed military shirts. Rally Point Apparel supports today’s military and all veterans. We are a veteran owned business that seeks to raise awareness to the issues that combat veterans face through our innovative designed military shirts.Rally Point Apparel military shirts come with a built in sense of pride. When you wear a Rally Point Apparel military shirts you show your support, as a proud American,...

I wanted to take a moment and debunk some of the negative stigma attached to The Department of Veterans Affairs. I must admit that as a veteran I’ve had some really bad experiences with the VA Healthcare System. Since I have been out of the Army one of my VA Disability Claims has turned into an appeal that has been drug out for years now. My experiences with the VA Claims process leaves me to ask the following question: Do the VA decision makers do a thorough job and actually look at their own medical records when deciding the outcome...