Due to unforeseen circumstances, we be rescheduling the 5th Annual Combat Vets Clay Shoot fundraiser event, originally scheduled for June 14th. The event will now be taking place on October 11th at the same time and location. We hope you can still join us this fall as we celebrate our veterans and wounded service members with a little friendly …
CVCS 2018 Announcement!
Join us on June 14th for our 5th annual Combet Vets Clay Shoot, a sporting clay competition and fund raiser to support Veterans Airlift Command. The day will featured a catered BBQ lunch, and a friendly sporting clay competition. Each shooting team will feature a handicapped veteran, shooting at the venue’s handicap accessible sporting clay range. We hope you can …
Mission 48 – Saturday June 24 2017
Quick trip taking Charlie to Key West to participate in the Scuba Challenge. Delightful young man. My honor to meet him.
Mission 42 – Saturday May 14 2017
Today Mark and I had the honor of flying an injured Special Forces soldier and his wife back home from Walter Reed to Destin, Florida. You can read about him here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/22/525237227/trump-awards-purple-heart-in-first-visit-to-walter-reed-military-hospital. This was his first trip home to visit his children since he was injured.
Mission 41 – Thursday April 27
Flew Riley and Dad James up for his appointment. 5-19-2017 Spoke with James last night about upcoming trip. Riley doing very well now. He has regained his balance and his running ad playing. Great news!
My 40th Veterans Airlift Mission Transported two Warriors to run in the Boston Marathon
April 14, 2017 Mark and I flew to Fayetteville, North Carolina last night to pick up two U.S. soldiers and fly them to Boston. Both of them are Special Forces group soldiers and one is running the Boston Marathon in honor of one of his best friends that took his own life in October of 2013. This soldier has deployed many …
Mission Notes from Michael Bell
3-2-2017, 3-16-2017, 3-16-2017, 3-23-2017, 4-12-2017 On these dates, Mark and I had the honor of flying Army Airborne Sgt James Voss and his 5 yr old son Riley. Riley was diagnosed last fall with an extremely aggressive, rare form of pediatric brain cancer known as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). He is one of the cutest little guys I have ever met and it has …