>> nearly 18 veterans died by suicide every day.

That's according to the U.S.

Department of Veterans Affairs.

One organization is working to change that by pairing veterans struggling with PTSD and other diagnoses with trained service dogs.

Reporter Joanna Hernandez met with a Marine veteran whose military career was cut short.

He opens up about the struggles he faced returning home being diagnosed with non combat PTSD and how his four-legged friend named Frankie is helping him find purpose again.

>> It was difficult.

think the biggest thing that we lose his purpose every single day will put on that uniform.

That gives us purpose for me for my plan.

I was wanting to do as many as I could.

So when I didn't even knew the full first contract, Clint, it was it was very devastating.

I served at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

Everyone in my family has served in the military.

My father took my oldest brother to my oldest sister and so served for a couple years, you know, made it through boot camp that grueling 3 got beat up and went to the fleet.

And when I got to the fleet, we kind of found out that there was something wrong being and I may have sustained some energy injuries from to camp that has carry over until today.

The president in the military, you're always with somebody when you get out.

They got to stay at base.

They can come back home with When I got out, I spiral lost connection.

So giving yourself and your own personal battle, buddy to go with you in something to help with that, it?

Canines for years is organization that is trying to achieve 0 veteran suicide and then also try to keep the dogs from from passed away.

So they're trying to save 2 lives.

Veterans of the dogs change my life quite a bit.

I a I mentioned the purpose.

I have kind of adapted into a new style purpose where I almost work myself to But Frankie is there to stop me from from doing that.

She makes me take breaks or when I get frustrated, she's there for me for the ones that are out there.

If you need help and you if you believe you need a service dog called canines because they'll I promise you they'll pick up and they won't stop calling me to make sure you're good.

>> The non-profit provides trained service dogs at no cost to veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and military trauma since 2011 canines for