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THE STORY OF A KOREAN WAR POW AND THE CASUALTY ASSISTANCE OFFICER WHO NEVER LEAVES A FAMILY BEHIND.
August 12, 2022 — Seventeen-year-old Corporal Wayne Minard, an infantry soldier from White Water Kansas needed his mother’s permission to join the Army in 1948. His family describes him as a typical farm boy who liked to joke and play pranks along with his twin brother Dewayne. He died a Prisoner of War in Korea at the age of twenty. His remains made it home 65 years later... MORE

Army Chaplain Preaches the Gospel of the Soldier Recovery Units
August 8, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va, - Call him Father, Chaplain, or Captain… Phillip Tah has many titles but one mission. “I found a career that was meant for me which is to take care of people. This was a choice I made to care for wounded, and sick people,” said the Catholic Priest of twenty-six years, now serving as a Chaplain assigned to the Fort Drum Soldier Recover Unit in Upstate New York... MORE

Army Chaplain Preaches the Gospel of the Soldier Recovery Units
August 5, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va, - Call him Father, Chaplain, or Captain… Phillip Tah has many titles but one mission. “I found a career that was meant for me which is to take care of people. This was a choice I made to care for wounded, and sick people,” said the Catholic Priest of twenty-six years, now serving as a Chaplain assigned to the Fort Drum Soldier Recover Unit in Upstate New York... MORE

Father Phillip Tah is the Chaplain at the Fort Drum Soldier Recovery Unit

Paralysis won’t stop this Soldier from achieving dreams
August 4, 2022 — ARLINGTON, Va.- Don’t ever think lightening doesn’t strike twice… just ask Army Staff Sergeant Jack DeLeuw. The Team Army athlete opens up about his motorcycle accidents that landed him in two Soldier Recovery Units within five years of each other. “I already had thorough knowledge of the SRU/WTB Process at Fort Sam-Houston, TX back in 2016-2017 following my first motorcycle accident on Oct 30th, 2015,” said the Army Cavalry Scout. Thankful that the Soldier Recovery Unit was there, he never expected to be back in one. Almost five years to the date another motorcycle accident happened... MORE

Team Army Coach Says Small Progress is still Victory
July 11, 2022 — Three time All American basketball player and coach of the UCLA Bruins, John Wooden once said “A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.” Team Army Coach Adriane Wilson does both, every day when she works with wounded, ill and injured Soldiers getting ready to compete somewhere... MORE

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jack Deleuw practices for the 100- meter wheelchair race with Team Army Coach Adriane Wilson at Army Trials May 8, 2022, at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Spc. Aleksander Fomin

How the Walter Reed SRU helped a soccer player - turned -Soldier tackle Cancer
June 28, 2022 — Jamaican born Roy Thompson always dreamed of joining the United States Army. That dream began with a sports scholarship. “I came to the United States on a Soccer Scholarship… I played for East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. After college I joined the Army National Guard and fell in love with it. After my commitment to the guard, I went active duty.”... MORE

Staff Sgt. Roy Thompson and fellow Soldiers add to the bounty of fish caught on a trip from the Walter Reed Soldier Recovery unit at Taylors Island Delaware in 2021

Permanent neurological condition won’t stop this Soldier from competing
May 9, 2022 — To say U.S. Army Cpl. Tiffanie Johnson loves being in the Army would be an understatement. “There’s nothing like being in the Army- nothing at all,” she says with pride... MORE

U.S. Army Cpl. Tiffanie Johnson rides an upright cycle in the cycling event during the U.S. Army Trials at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, May 7, 2022. Nearly 40 wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers are at Fort Bragg May 3 - 9 to compete in a series of athletic events including archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, powerlifting, track, field, rowing, and wheelchair basketball. The Army holds qualifying trials for active duty Soldiers and veterans to assess and select athletes for competition in the DoD Warrior Games. Active duty athletes compete in person at Army Trials to be assessed for selection, while veterans compete virtually and submit their results to the Army Recovery Care Program for assessment. This year, the DoD Warrior Games will take place in Orlando, Florida August 16 – 29, 2022.

Army Trials helps injured Soldier show the world she can still compete
May 8, 2022 — Throwing around 126-152 pounds of ammunition rounds is all in a day’s work for U.S. Army Cpl. Jennifer Acker. As an ammunition specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas, she controls, supplies, and delivers ammunitions to training units. In July of 2019, while offloading those supplies, she knew something had gone wrong... MORE

U.S. Army Cpl. Jennifer Acker rides an upright cycle in the cycling event during the U.S. Army Trials at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, May 7, 2022. Nearly 40 wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers are at Fort Bragg May 3 - 9 to compete in a series of athletic events including archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, powerlifting, track, field, rowing, and wheelchair basketball. The Army holds qualifying trials for active duty Soldiers and veterans to assess and select athletes for competition in the DoD Warrior Games. Active duty athletes compete in person at Army Trials to be assessed for selection, while veterans compete virtually and submit their results to the Army Recovery Care Program for assessment. This year, the DoD Warrior Games will take place in Orlando, Florida August 16 – 29, 2022

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