/ Carly Rayburg participates in a flag ceremony as an ROTC cadet at Colorado State University in 2019. Colorado’s suicide rate among veterans is higher than the rate in other states and among the general population. The factors are complex — from access to care to homelessness to joblessness — but a new program in Larimer County aims to intervene early by teaching cadets in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) ways to identify and handle self-harm. Carly Rayburg is the ROTC Liason for the Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County, and a former cadet who graduated from Colorado State University last year. Following the death of an ROTC alumni by suicide six years ago, Rayburg and her training partner, Marshall Spring, are now working with Arnold Air Society, a national ROTC service organization, to offer free training for cadets nationwide.