Suicide, PTSD, substance use, homelessness, and related behavioral health issues continue to escalate within active duty and retiree Armed Forces personnel (Army, Marine, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard).  Military health, Defense Health Agency, Congress, Surgeon General, and related continue to utilize dated practices of discriminatory exclusion of Mental Health Counselors. Subject matter experts, who do not possess adequate knowledge of Mental Health Counselor competencies, who may not possess the best interest of the military, and who respond to lobbyists funding versus the care needs of individuals who serve and served, negate the benefits of integrating Mental Health Counselors to fill treatment gaps and improve outcomes. Inclusion of Mental Health Counselors will create a more effective and efficient behavioral health care system with therapeutic results encouraging resilience and deployability of active duty as well as stabilization of veterans and retirees. Active duty and veterans deserve the best and most available services that can be offered. They have sacrificed life and family to fight for their country through years of conflict only to be devalued in such a way that further neglects them. This has been very evident since World War I and the poor treatment of Shell shock which continues after each major war. This reactive approach to Behavioral Health has continuously been the means of caring for our military and leads to a lack of preparation which encourages destabilization, poor treatment, and dysfunctional programs. Military and veterans deserve better for the scarifices they have given. This petition asks the patriotic Americans to turn their attentions to the best way to honor military personnel by signing this petition the government can make corrective measures and include Mental Health Counselors in care of veterans who have earned and are entitied to have quality of life during and after serving.