, both of whom have the highest rank in their respective branches that any enlisted service member can hope to attain. Honea and Grinston are responsible for addressing the issues of the hundreds of thousands of enlisted personnel in both services, whichin the military.
These subreddits are also tools for Department of Defense officials to learn about service member issuesnational news stories, including responding to individual mental health crises that service members sometimes reveal on these sites. It’s those cases—delicate efforts that often involve direct messages, phone calls to units across the world, and tracking down at-risk service members—that illustrate just how useful the platform can be.