10/01/2026
Eight sailors. One command. One year.
The Navy has confirmed that eight sailors assigned to Strategic Communications Wing 1 at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, died by su***de in roughly a year. During the same period, eight sailors across the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted su***de on a record-long deployment.
These were sons, husbands, and shipmates. Young men who raised their right hand and stood the watch on one of the most demanding missions in our military. Our hearts are with their families, their shipmates, and every sailor at Tinker and aboard Lincoln carrying this weight right now.
This one hits close for us. Our co-founder, Matthew Whiz Buckley deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. That crew is family.
No Fallen Heroes Foundation exists to serve those who have already taken off the uniform: veterans and first responders fighting trauma, depression, addiction, and moral injury. We have watched safe, responsible, medically supervised entheogenic care restore purpose, faith, and identity to warriors who had run out of options. They were never broken. They needed a path home.
The men and women wearing the uniform today deserve that same hope. The Department of Defense has funded clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy for active-duty service members, and that research is underway. We urge DoD and Navy leadership to keep pressing forward, fund this work fully, and move with the urgency these numbers demand. We are praying for results, and soon.
Su***de is preventable. Trauma is treatable. Not one more.
If you are serving, a veteran, or a family member and you are struggling, call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net.
Reach out today. You are not alone.