Chaplain Daniel Garnett is a graduate of The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville, Florida, with a Bachelor of Theology; The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, with a Master of Divinity; and Gateway Seminary in Ontario, California, with a Doctor of Ministry. 

Chaplain Garnett was ordained as a minister with Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, Alabama, in May 2005 and is endorsed by the Southern Baptist Convention. He entered active duty in the United States Army in May 2012.

Chaplain Garnett attended the Chaplain Captain Career Course in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, from January 2019 to June 2019 where he was an honor graduate. Following his career course, he was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, from July 2019 to December 2021. He currently serves as the Operations Chaplain for the Defense Health Agency out of Falls Church, Virginia, and recently attended the Command and General Staff Officer Course Fort Belvoir, Virginia, satellite campus, and graduated in December of 2022. 

Chaplain Garnett’s military education also consists of the NATO Chaplain Operations Course, Combat Medical Ministry Course, Moral Spiritual Injury Course, Strong Bonds Instructor Training Course, Suicide Prevention Instructor Training Course, Special Operations Religious Support Team Orientation Course, Joint Civilian Military Operations Course, Chaplain Captain Career Course, and Basic Airborne School. 

His hobbies include reading, playing golf, and exploring God’s creation with his family. 

Chaplain Michael Bell is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was a direct commission as a captain and re-entered active duty in January 2018. He holds a Master of Divinity Degree from The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia, and Master of Arts in Religious Studies Degree, concentration in Biblical Languages from The Howard University School of Theological Consortium in Washington, DC. He received the Master Studies Certification in Islamic and Christian Scriptures from the Washington Theological Consortium in Washington, DC, and is currently in his second year of a Doctor of Philosophy program in International/Cultural Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, holding a 4.9 cumulative G.P.A. 

Chaplain Bell’s military education and schools include Chaplain Basic and Advanced Officer Leader Courses in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and Combat/Emergency Medical Ministry Course in Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea. 

In 1999, he enlisted in the Army and attended basic combat training at Fort Benning, Georgia, as a 91B combat medic. He completed Advanced Individual Training as a 91C Licensed Practical Nurse at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and later assigned to Eisenhower Medical Hospital in Fort Gordon, Georgia, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC as the Noncommisioned Officer in Charge of the General Surgery and Same-Day Surgery Wards, respectively. While at WRAMC he successfully challenged the NCLEX-RN and operated as the only enlisted with RN privileges. He was also selected as a first responder team lead to the Pentagon on 9/11 and spent the first 72 hours of the attack on-site as a field clinic NCOIC and S/R Team.

Chaplain Bell’s initial assignment was with the 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1ST Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas. From 2018 to 2019 he served as the battalion chaplain on rotation in the Republic of Korea. In 2019 he was nominative assigned to the 1st Recruiting Brigade Chaplain position, providing ministry to a unit geo-dispersed, consisting of eight battalions, 49 companies, one European detachment, 273 recruiting centers, with over 2,700 soldiers, their families, and DOD civilian personnel from Virginia to Maine in 13 states, the District of Columbia, and Europe. In August of 2020 he assumed his role as the deputy brigade chaplain after the addition of a brigade chaplain and an additional Religious Affairs Specialist taking the team from two personnel to a four personnel Unit Ministry Team. 

Chaplain Bell currently serves as the battalion chaplain for the 54th Strategic Signal Battalion, based in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. His units are geo-dispersed though Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Chaplain Bell’s awards and decoration include the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (2nd Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Korea Defense Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Medal, and The Army Service Ribbon.

Chaplain Bell is an ordained Baptist minister in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. His hobbies include Jazz, CrossFit, Mixed Martial Arts and learning languages. 

Cdr. Brandy Cloud is a United States Public Health Service Officer and chief of Research Adoption in the Psychological Health Center of Excellence at the Defense Health Agency. Cdr. Cloud holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice and is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner and holds credentials as a licensed professional counselor.

Cdr. Cloud has 15 years of experience across multiple clinical and nonclinical settings. Her role as the chief of Research Adoption focuses on improving care delivery to service members and their families and veterans through development and dissemination of clinical support tools, more rapidly translating research into practice with the Practice Based Implementation Network and building a collaborative team to develop the Real Warriors Campaign as a valuable tool to reduce mental health stigma, encourage help seeking behaviors, and reduce suicide throughout DOD. 

CDR Brandy Cloud has the honor of serving patients at the Richard Barquist Health Clinic in Frederick, MD.

Lt. Col. Christopher J. Button, Ph.D., ABPP is the Suicide Prevention Research Scientist and the Suicide Prevention Program Manager for the Office of Integrated Resilience, Department of the Air Force, Pentagon, Washington D.C. In these roles, he leads Department of the Air Force suicide prevention research activities. He is responsible for establishing the department’s suicide prevention strategy and annual priorities. Lt. Col. Button also orchestrates the scientific activities of strategic research partners in both civilian academic institutions and government contract agencies to discover new knowledge and drive department-wide prevention innovations intended to reduce the risk of suicide for 689,000 Air Force and Space Force  active duty, Guard, Reserve, civilians and their families.

Lt. Col. Button enlisted in the Air Force in 1997 as a member of the Iowa Air National Guard. He was commissioned into the Air Force in 2006 at the University of Iowa. He completed his pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology and entered active duty service in 2008. In his 26 years in the military, he has served as a deputy squadron commander, a biomedical sciences corps executive, a flight commander, the Director of Psychological Health for three installations, and piloted multiple Air Force-level programs, including Green Dot, True North, and the Violence Prevention Integrator position.

Prior to his current assignment, Lt. Col. Button concurrently served as the Clinical Psychology Residency Program Director and Assistant Dean for Graduate Allied Health Education for the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium while stationed at Joint-Base San Antonio Lackland, Texas. During this tour, he also served as a faculty member for the Air Force’s largest clinical psychology training program and assisted the Dean and Associate Dean in ensuring faculty development and educational support for over 100 graduate trainees and 24 graduate health education training programs. He deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2012.