ATC Coaching is the new purpose in Coach Chris’s life. The vision is to be able to come alongside veterans, first responders, or anyone navigating one of life’s many twists and turns as they undergo their own transition, whatever that looks like for them, and help them have a healthier, more manageable, less stressful experience than he had in his own life.
Coach Chris is a combat veteran of the United States Navy, having served more than 22 years as a Hospital Corpsman. During his time in the Navy, he spent most of his career service with the United States Marine Corps on Camp Pendleton. Coach Chris deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan with the Marines.
While retirement was a distant plan for Coach Chris, the Navy had other ideas for his future. After a lifetime of service to our country and the Marines he served with, Coach Chris was medically retired in 2019 at the rank of Senior Chief. Despite the loss of everything he had known, still grappling with his mental health, and coming to terms with his new future, Coach Chris quickly found a job and tried to figure out what was next for him and his family. That job lasted ten months and ended with what would be Coach Chris’s spiral into a deeper depression and a failed marriage. With the right treatment and the love and support of his family and friends, Coach Chris was able to learn how to manage the PTSD and depression that had taken so much from him and set a new course in his life. That is where ATC was born!
