Exclusive | Long Island lawmaker, Marine will walk 26 hours straight to raise awareness for veterans' suicide: 'We're going to do this together'

It’s a boots-on-the-ground effort.

A Long Island lawmaker and Marine reservist plans to trek a whopping 66 miles across Suffolk County in just 26 hours to raise awareness for the country’s veterans’ suicide epidemic — and you’re invited.

“We’re losing more veterans by their own hand than when we were at war with Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia in the global war on terror over the past 20 years,” 45-year-old Chad Lennon, a Rocky Point Republican, told The Post. 4

“We don’t have twenty years — or two years, we don’t have two minutes.”

Lennon, who survived an IED blast while on active duty in Afghanistan 15 years ago, intends to leave at 9 a.m. Saturday from a local firehouse at the tip of the North Fork in Orient. He will walk straight to the Suffolk County government office