GREG MUNCK Speaker, Author, Combat Veteran
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The Guide Soldier Foundation

We exist to guide soldiers and veterans into hope and freedom on the front lines of the soldier and veteran suicide crisis.

Here am I, Lord. Send me.

Why I serve

As a Marine Corps combat promoted veteran of Desert Storm in Kuwait, I have seen the horrors of war, and I live with a service connected disability. I was always a combat veteran, but I was never part of the veteran community. Then three things changed me: the response from veterans to my book, filming The Guide video series with Every Man Ministries, and attending a SOF Missions five day Be Resilient Clinic. Together they ignited something in me to serve the warrior community and help combat the suicide epidemic among my brothers and sisters in arms.

How The Guide Soldier Foundation confronts the problem

1. Military base and veteran organization outreach

As a certified Be Resilient Training (BRT) instructor, I talk openly about processing trauma, including mTBI, PTSD and moral injury, because every soldier and veteran has faced or will face trauma. Strong core values and a moral compass speed recovery. Through personal stories, my testimony and God's transforming Word, I call warriors to surrender their pain to the Lord and receive the only true hope on this side of heaven.

I speak on bases around the country, minister with the USMC Wounded Warrior Battalion, and speak at VFW, American Legion and Marine Corps League gatherings, Marine Corps Birthday celebrations, Veterans Day and Memorial Day events. I also partner with local churches across the country to reach men. In one six month stretch, I spoke to 350 veterans and 800 Marines and soldiers, and 47 made decisions to follow Christ.

2. SOF Missions clinics and California retreats

I speak multiple times a year for SOF Missions and serve as their West Coast ambassador, teaching the spiritual pillar and speaking at graduation for their five day Be Resilient Clinics in Tampa. SOF Missions cares for the whole warrior through four pillars of care: physical, psychological, social and spiritual. At every clinic, four to six veterans say yes to Jesus. Of the 4,500 veterans SOF Missions has served, not one has been lost to suicide. We have connected over 20 veterans to attend these clinics, and we are now planning SOF Missions retreats and clinics here in California built on those same four pillars.

3. Veteran Stand Downs

We bring the VA and community resources veterans need together in one place, so a veteran can get help with benefits, health care, housing, jobs and spiritual care in a single day. On October 24, 2026, the foundation led a Stand Down in South Orange County with over 50 partners and more than 100 veterans attending.

4. Legendarios USA and Bear Cave

In 2027, we are working with Legendarios USA to bring a TOP called Bear Cave to California. It will give veterans another place to be challenged physically, mentally and spiritually alongside other men.

5. The books

The Guide: Survival, Warfighting, Peacemaking, released May 9, 2023, is one of our strongest tools for helping warriors realize they are worthy of God's love. Every $10 given puts a copy in the hands of a veteran or active duty Marine, and we work with commanding officers, chaplains and veteran organizations to get it to any warrior who wants it. My next book, Warfighter and Worshiper, grew out of countless conversations with combat veterans wrestling with guilt, moral injury and killing in combat.

6. Video and social media

Video and social media let us reach active duty and veteran personnel worldwide with a message of hope, including those who will never walk into a church or a VA office. I am recording myself reading all 90+ stories from The Guide and releasing one each week on YouTube and across social media, giving warriors a steady reminder that someone else has walked their road and found healing.

7. Partnerships

We partner with SOF Missions and Damon Friedman, Legendarios USA, Words of Comfort and Hope Ministries, the Marine Corps League, the American Legion, the VFW, Disabled American Veterans, the Gary Sinise Foundation, Snowball Express, the Wounded Warrior Project, the Military Chaplains Association and the Association of Related Churches. I am also building a relationship with the Veteran Service Alliance in Washington, D.C., which unites veteran nonprofits to amplify their impact before Congress.

8. Counsel, direction and ongoing support

With every connection, I want to equip the healthy and give hope to the struggling. I currently walk alongside 35 veterans, helping them navigate their struggles, find healing and rediscover their purpose. Through our network, we have helped Marines find stable housing and connected veterans with service dogs. For those who need more care, we help fund the most urgent cases to attend a SOF Missions Be Resilient Clinic.

Greg Munck with a World War II veteran in Laguna Beach
With a World War II veteran on Memorial Day in Laguna Beach.
Greg Munck with Marines at SOI West
With Marines at SOI West.
Greg Munck teaching at a SOF Missions training
Teaching at a SOF Missions training.
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