Welcome Home - Veterans Only
The mission of the Welcome Home Team is to help veterans know that Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to work on their hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
Life after the Military does not always make sense. The loss of a sense of brotherhood and the loss of being part of something important and bigger than myself can lead to feelings of frustration, isolation, emptiness, boredom, anger, or loneliness.
In an attempt to cope with the pain of these overwhelming emotions, sometimes veterans turn to unhealthy relationships, at-risk behaviors, or substance abuse.
Whether you served during peacetime or war, if you experienced combat, or never heard a shot fired in anger, all veterans are welcome at Welcome Home!
About Welcome Home Moderator, Randy Tapp
Randy enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1976. After attending 12 weeks of boot camp in Orlando, Florida, he began his training as a Hospital Corpsman at the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego, California. Upon completing Hospital Corpsman “A” school, Randy was assigned advanced training as a Urological Technician at the Naval School of Health Sciences, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Upon completion of this program, Randy was, after a brief 17-day temporary duty assignment aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42, assigned to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryl nd. While at the NNMC, HM3 Tapp provided advanced urological radiological, surgical, and laboratory procedures and diagnostic tests for active duty personnel of all service branches, their families, retired military, and national elected officials. Randy was selected for advanced training and operation of leading-edge x-ray tomography (leading for that time) and was highly recognized for the quality of his procedures.
During his service at NNMC, Randy performed over 200 vasectomies, adult circumcisions, and hundreds of urological diagnostic studies. Randy separated from the Navy in June 1980 and resumed his collegiate career in accounting.