American Freedom Fund (AFF), 501(c)(19), was founded in 2016 by three combat veterans, LT Don Bramer, MAJ Rob Miller, and Petty Officer Gabe Stecker. After their individual tours of duty, they sought a way to continue serving their brothers and sisters in arms by providing the Veteran community the opportunity; the means to maintain the fellowship; and the support of the military as they transition towards their next career. AFF empowers Active Duty, Reserve and Separated Service Members through...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Lady Veterans Connect is an organization created to provide high quality, comprehensive services to assist female veterans in transitional support and prevent homelessness. Founded in 2012 under the name Sheppard's Hands by Phyllis Abbott, LVC was officially renamed in 2016 and opened the first transitional healing home, the Thurman-Abbott House, for female veterans in Kentucky. Since then, LVC has connected over 500 lady veterans in Kentucky with needed resources, and not a single night has pas...
May 18, 2024•2 hr 13 min
Our Mission To insure Kentucky’s women veterans have equitable access to federal and state veterans’ services and benefits. Our Goals 1. Perform outreach to improve women veterans' awareness of eligibility for federal and state veterans' services and benefits. 2. Assess the needs of women veterans with respect to improve the Women Veterans Program. 3. Make recommendations to the Commissioner to improve benefi...
May 17, 2024•46 min
Hello and welcome to the warriors next adventure. My name is Nick Rahn and I am an Air Force Security Forces veteran. I spent 6 years active duty, with 4 tours overseas. I have experienced a lot during my time as a .50 cal gunner on area security operations, quick reaction force, route clearance, and presence patrols. After years of mortars, IED's, loss of brothers, and other close calls, I started to get burnt out. Afghanistan 2012, not long before I was set to come back to the U.S., there was ...
May 17, 2024•2 hr 40 min
Stephen Russell, a former airborne infantryman with a decade of military service, brings a unique perspective shaped by his deployment with Bco 1/12 3HBCT 1st Cav DIV to Baqubah, Iraq, during the surge in 2006-2007. Beyond the battlefield, he’s a versatile artist, currently contributing to the comic series Tales of Nihilism and open for traditional art commissions. He believes the U.S. hasn’t fully reckoned with the aftermath of 9/11, emphasizing the need to confront our collective anger and hat...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 34 min
ARTICLE 15 COMEDY, A GROUP OF VETERAN COMICS THAT FORMED IN 2023 IN TEXAS TO PROVIDE HILARIOUS COMEDY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND RAISE AWARENESS OF THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER.
May 17, 2024•1 hr 43 min
“Go For Broke” was the motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an Army unit composed of Japanese Americans from Hawai’i and the mainland United States. For high-rolling gamblers in Hawai’i in the 1940s, it was slang for “shooting the works,” or risking everything for the big win. For the Nisei soldiers, “go for broke” meant that they would put everything on the line to win the war against the Germans in Europe and the war against racial prejudice at home. OUR MISSION To educate and inspire ch...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 33 min
In 2010, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jake Wood couldn’t stand idly by as a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti. He saw an immense need for help, so he acted. While other relief organizations hemmed and hawed, Wood led a team of seven into action. That small, scrappy team cared for thousands of survivors, broke the mold of humanitarian aid, and proved that we can always do more. That was our first operation—and the one that gave Team Rubicon its name. Channeling the audacity of Julius Caesar as he cros...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min
To all the female veterans out there, thank you for your service! The concept of "She's the Veteran" is in an effort to raise awareness of the almost 2 million women veterans currently serving or have served in the military. She’s the Veteran works with female veterans to improve mental health through programmatic activities, provide a supportive community, and spearhead research efforts in support of their health and mental health. We envision a country that acknowledges women veterans for thei...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 14 min
It all started when founder and U.S. Marine Bill D was stationed in Korea back in the late ’80s. Bill discovered that MREs tasted like @#$%, but by mixing certain MREs, he could re-create the consistency and flavor of chili. Soon, word got out. Along line wrapped around the outside of his tent with marines longing for the flavors of home. A foodie was born. A decade ago, a friend gifted Bill with savory spices from Europe. Bill suspected the spices contained too much sodium and MSG, since his a...
May 17, 2024•49 min
Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully raisi...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min
I’m a Project Management Professional (PMP) with my MBA and a Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) With a Scrum Master 1 and 2 Background. I’m Highly skilled at making sound decisions and experienced in short and long-term strategic planning, designing program performance measures, developing policies and procedures, preparing action plans, and advising on diverse program strategies; expert in program infrastructure design, with the ability to understand complex processes and effectively alig...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min
At She Served Sheroes, we believe that your journey as a veteran woman doesn't end when you hang up your uniform. In fact, it's just the beginning of a new chapter filled with limitless possibilities and untapped potential. Our mission is to provide you with the resources, support, and sisterhood you need to thrive in every aspect of your life. Whether you're seeking financial empowerment, career guidance, personal development tools, or simply a community of like-minded women who understand your...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 47 min
I want to do good things. Not great things, but good. I plan on leaving my mark on the world and not apologizing for it. I am a marketing and public relations specialist, with more than 12 years of experience in digital content creation, brand integration, marketing, social media management, community relations and promotion across major media outlets, news media networks, editing and photojournalism. I have developed and implemented organizational communication strategies at the local, regional...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 12 min
A former high school football player, Eagle Scout, Marine and power lifter, just 3 weeks after receiving the Officer of the Year award for his police department in 2003, Kevin Trees suffered a life changing crash that left him for dead on the side of a country road. After two and a half years of not walking and ultimately losing his right leg above the knee in his 34th surgery, Kevin returned to his career as a police officer. Since his return, he has flown with his department's air unit as a cr...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 40 min
The mission of Veterans Villages is to revitalize the Dream by providing housing that our nation’s heroes are proud to call home. Our unwavering commitment is to transform lives by providing high-quality respectful housing for veterans caught in the housing crisis and left with few to no appropriate options for themselves and their families. Veterans Villages’ singular goal is to address the increasing need for high quality, dignified affordable housing for those who valiantly served us. We fulf...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 43 min
Dr. Theresa Larson (aka “Dr. T”) has become one of the healthcare and fitness world’s most sought after experts on movement health. Dr. Larson earned her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Saint Augustine in San Diego, CA. A former Marine Corps Engineer Officer and Combat Veteran, Theresa also played professional softball in Italy as well as semi-professional softball in the United States, was an All- American Division I softball player at Villanova University, as well as a for...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Don Barbiea, US Air Force Retired and is the Founder. He resides in Louisville, Kentucky Jim Webb, US Marine Veteran and a Co-Founder. He resides in Louisville, Kentucky David Naranjo, US Army Veteran and a Co-Founder. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas It all started in different corners of the United States, with three disabled veterans named Don Barbiea, Jim Webb, and David Naranjo were living their lives with a shared purpose of helping others. From their respective cities of Louisville, Kentuc...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 49 min
"a platform and network comprised of independent traditional country music artists, veterans, supporters and related organizations dedicated to working together to raise public awareness and bringing communities together through special concerts and events in order to further AMVETS mission of helping enhance and safeguard the entitlements for all American Veterans who have served honorably and to improve the quality of life for them, their families, and the communities where they live."
May 17, 2024•1 hr 6 min
STAT founders Dale Massey and Eric Culver worked together for many years in special operations and SWAT. During their time together, leading a full-time SWAT Team, training was a huge part of daily operations. In their positions, they had many interactions with the community and realized there was no training specifically tailored for civilians. With their shared passion for training, they set out to develop training programs for civilians with survival strategies designed specifically for an ac...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 16 min
At Active Heroes, we know that veterans, the Military, and their Families need compassionate communities that can relate to and appreciate the challenges that come from military service. To establish a community that can both relate to and support those who have served, there needs to be opportunities to build connections. Without this camaraderie, those who have served can feel isolated and left behind. This can lead to a ripple effect that can lead to crisis or suicide. We believe these heroes...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The Camp Brown Bear Vision Hello, my name is Steven Brown, and I am the founder of Camp Brown Bear. Veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury and Military Sexual Trauma have elevated levels of anxiety, depression, and psycho-social problems. We would like to be part of the solution, in part, by immersing Veterans into the wilderness, giving a sense of purpose while participating in projects, building camaraderie, introducing the participants to holistic modal...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Mitchell Kieffer (Captain, USAF [Ret.]) was the Chief Data Scientist for several U.S. and Air Force Commands as an officer in the military and as a civilian contractor. He is a combat-proven leader, being Wounded in Action – Purple Heart Recipient – when his vehicle was directly hit by a copper plated Explosively Formed Penetrating IED which gave him a Traumatic Brain Injury as well as fractured 10 vertebrae. He then earned a Master’s Degree in Data Science/Operations Research from the Air Force...
May 17, 2024•40 min
K9s on The Front Line was founded in 2016 when Hagen Blaszyk and Linda Murray realized the intended bandwidth of their mission to provide Service Dogs to combat Veterans could not be met by partnering with any of Maine’s existing organizations. Blaszyk and Murray had met the previous year while training their own dogs at a local K9 training facility, where Law Enforcement K9 handlers were working with dogs that would eventually become Service K9s for a small group of combat Veterans in North Car...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Donald Bramer, founder and Chairman of Bramer Group is a veteran of both combat and Capitol Hill having served the offices and campaigns of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell at both the state and national levels. He has served as an appointee under the administration of President George H. W. Bush in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce focusing on Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, as well as the Office of the Secretary at the U.S.Department of Health & Human Se...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
David Rubin, founder of Wekiva Strong, saw the need to help his local heroes after witnessing all they did during hurricane Irma in 2017. It was weeks and months of local firefighters, policemen and other volunteers who worked tirelessly to assure people in the community they would be safe, have the needed services and take care of one another. These Heroes were spending so much time away from their own families, caring for others. David decided to put on a local community event to thank these H...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 25 min
Injury attorney Karl Truman began his military career when he enlisted in 1981. He then enrolled in Army ROTC at the University of Kentucky, where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1983. He worked his way through the ranks, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2009 after 28 years of service. His military training includes: Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Course at Ft. Knox, KY Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Operations Course The Air Assault Course at Ft. Campbell, KY Airborne S...
May 17, 2024•45 min
Jamie Utley was born a beautiful, normal, healthy baby...and then things went wrong. Jamie takes the audience on a rollercoaster thrill ride, showing them what the world looks like through his eyes as he guides them along the twists and turns of his experiences with his dysfunctional family, relationships, being a single parent, staying sober in recovery, and male-bonding. Jamie Utley toured on the Monsters of Comedy with Ralphie May and Jim Breuer, starred on Laughs on FOX, and has appeared on ...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Wayward Warrior Ranch is a Veteran Service Organization located in Bristol, Virginia. Mission: To help warriors find hope & purpose after service through ranching & the love of Jesus Christ. Faith. Farming. Focus. Fulfillment.
May 17, 2024•1 hr 13 min
We are a nonprofit organization that helps veterans capitalize on their military experience to meet career goals. We partner with employers throughout the Commonwealth to connect transitioning service members and their spouses with open job opportunities. We believe that the shortest pathway for the transitioning veteran is the best pathway. By recognizing your unique career goals and family needs, we’ll connect you with a fulfilling career in Kentucky.
May 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min
