CHICAGO (WLS) -- Greg Sanchez was 19 when he signed up for boot camp at the Naval Station Great Lakes.

And while he loved serving his country, he says the transition to civilian life was hard. It is why he is now teaching other vets how to get back up again.

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"My dad grew up very impoverished. He left Mexico at 14 years old," Sanchez said. "To him, it was just a matter of having a better life."

Sanchez, a Navy veteran and the son of an immigrant, is now working to create that better life for his fellow veterans.

"In the military, you deploy together, you train together, you eat next to each other," Sanchez said.

But his time after service wasn't easy.

"A good decade after I left military service, I was I lost a camaraderie. I d

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