It's the week we're raising money for Warrior Foundation Freedom Station. We've been doing this for years. We're gonna try to raise five hundred thousand dollars this week at least. At least UM, I'm hoping we blow past that. But these are weird times, so we didn't know what to set for a goal. UH. We thought maybe a real good way to just explain what it is, UM and UH tickle whatever bone we gotta tickle to make you want
to donate. Is UH talking to one of one of the heroes that have actually been it fitted from Warrior Foundation Freedom Station. Isaac Blunt is with US. Isaak was part of the first Battalion, fifth Marine Regiment, based out of Camp Pendleton, California, deployed to Afghanistan in eleven and UH while serving his point man during a foot patrol, Isaac stepped on an i e d resulted in the loss of both of his legs, his left eye, several
fingers on his left hand. Um, we've met Isaac. He is a great dude and UH and his you know, climbing back into the life with the help of Warrior Foundation Freedom Station. I think it's good to talk to you. Man. How are you doing. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. What was the road between being blown up by the I E. D. And getting to Warrior Foundation? What was happening in between? And how long
did that take? Oh? It was a blast, um so my uh coming from Balboa, I actually um lived in an apartment by myself for a little while and then UM, I was on my way to UM. I had another foundation that was building me a house up here in Fallbrook. And in between then I was at having to live, um find an apartment and everything. In Warrior Foundation, actually they saved a spot for me, um, and they kept it open just to make sure that I actually had a place to go if I needed a fallback somewhere. Hey,
how old were you when you were medically retired in shoot? Um? Yeah so and at two having gone in the military, I'm guessing you didn't have a lot of sperience with living on your own. Oh no, not at all. Um. I joined the military eighteen, and I was by the time I was twenty, I was injured. UM just got it, just got divorced, and I had no idea how it was to live on my own and just being like kind of sitting in a one bedroom apartment by myself.
It was it was a little lonely. You know, there are v a programs available and and the Department of Defense has some programs, but from what we've heard, they're notoriously slow. And and if a guy in your life situation has to wait like a year and a half two years for this stuff to kick in, man, that can be devastating. And that's that's why we're such a big believers in Warrior Foundation Freedom Station. I know you
are too, absolutely. Um the Warrior Foundation, they help with any if there's any type of meat needs that way, they help you, like to fill that gap like that time in between that you're waiting on things like that. They they're there to kind of help with um, that that in between time and make it make it so much easier. And we've heard so many, so much from you guys over the years about how the loss of the camaraderie, the structure, everything that you had in the military.
You know, all that disappears overnight when you get wounded, Uh, you get injured and then you're out on your own and just all of that at once is you know, it's too much for anybody to deal with. And Warrior Foundation steps in and then how do they how do they provide you structure and camaraderie? How does that factor into your life? At the Freedom Station, they have UM houses right there. They have a little UM our huts
that kind of everybody's in close proximity. It's a gated, gated area, so you know, nobody that doesn't isn't supposed to be there is getting in. UM. There's other guys that are there as well, other vets, other military personnel that come in and they bring in the camaraderie like just like that, especially with the wolf Pack. I mean they bring veterans from UM, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps.
I don't think we have any we haven't had any airmen in there yet, but UM just bringing us together to play, play a game or a play spur it that we all love. And it's the Warrior Foundation provides for that. They make it where we They give us the access to be able to do that, and the UM excuse me, the mobility and the wheelchairs to keep doing that, you know, right, and the guys are counting on you, which I know means a lot to a guy who is you know, a marine. It's it's a
team thing. Hey, Isaac is great to talk to you. Man. We appreciate the time. We're doing our best. Our audience is doing our best. And uh and thanks good to talk to you. It's good talk. Good talking with you two. Thank you. So it takes money to make Warrior Foundation Freedom Station work. Beviously, we're trying to raise a half million dollars this week. I'm just looking at this study right here that a quarter of adults planned by a
Christmas present for themselves this year. The stock market closing lyon the stock market closed almost thirty thou points yesterday. Now, I know some of you are having the worst year of your lives financially, but those of you who aren't or her having the best year of your lives. Because some people are, some businesses are exploding. How about you throw with a little money go to Armstrong and Getty
dot com. Armstrong and Getty dot com. Just to sum it up, it's at the point that these warriors at the highest risk of homelessness, joblessness, suicide, the rest of it. Warrior Foundation Freedom Stration Freedom Station is there for post traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury. They're there with transitional housing, new prosthetic limbs, rehab, helping a kid who's never wanted to be anything but a marine. Now he's not only
not a marine, but he's been injured, sometimes terribly. Yeah, good luck by No No No Warrior Foundation Freedom Station doesn't do that. They help these guys adjust and and and make the transition to happy, productive lives. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing, and we need your support. Go to Armstrong and getty dot com.