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Rancho Buena Vista Chapter participates in the "Dining with the Wounded Warrior" project here in San Diego.  This project, which was started in April 2007, feeds Wounded Warriors a home cooked meal twice a month at Wounded Warrior Battalion West, Camp Pendleton as well as at Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego.  The Wounded Warriors served are active duty United States Marines and United States Army service personnel.

Wounded Warrior is the acronym the military uses to refer to active duty military personnel injured in combat or in the line of duty.  The Wounded Warrior Battalion West at Camp Pendleton takes care as well as oversees all injured USMC Wounded Warriors west of the Mississippi and includes Hawaii and Guam.  Those Wounded Warriors assigned to Wounded Warrior Battalion West are in a halfway/rehabilitation/nursing barracks for injured ambulatory Marines.  These Wounded Warriors were injured in combat or in the line of duty.  They reside at the barracks during their convalescent period which can cover several months to a year plus.  Once the rehabilitation is complete some of the marines will rejoin their units and others will be medically discharged.

Project Patriot

DAR Project Patriot is the official Daughters of the American Revolution committee that supports America’s service personnel currently serving in conflicts abroad.

In the spring of 2005, a new project was undertaken - the support of the wounded active duty military personnel at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The ongoing Military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, continue to bring wounded soldiers, Marines, and airmen to receive health care at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Many arrive with little clothing. While every patient receives a $250 voucher from Department of Defense to be used at Army Air Force Exchange Services to meet their clothing needs, the Center's Wounded Warrior Project provides new clothes and other needed items to those evacuated in a positive and caring atmosphere to meet their initial needs.

Since the partnering with Landstuhl RMC, over 23,000 60-minute phone cards, 500 gym bags stocked with personal care items, over 50,000 holiday cards, 250 winter coats, 500 pairs of break-away sweatpants, 500 crew neck sweat shirts, and 300 pairs of athletic shoes have been sent to the wounded military personnel at the hospital, as well as checks totaling $40,000 that were presented to the Center.

Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Pendleton

SAN DIEGO -- Wounded warriors, which is how the Marines refer to troops hurt in the heat of battle, now have a new place at which to come home at Camp Pendleton.  The military base opened the first Wounded Warrior Center on the West Coast, a halfway house of sorts for wounded Marines and sailors.

The rooms have all of the comforts of home -- including quilts on the bed -- but they're designed to help wounded servicemen and women make the transition between hospital and home.

"This is a Marine Corps organization. The Marines live here. They work here just like they would in barracks elsewhere, but these are uniquely suited for their particular conditions at this time," said Col. James Seaton III.

About a quarter-mile from the base hospital, Camp Pendleton's  Wounded Warrior Center is a place for up to 26 Marines, men or women, from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to live while they recover from injuries that pulled them off the battlefield. 

The place is quite a change from the barracks, too. Take the recreation room, which comes complete with a large-screen high-definition TV, and two sofas with individual arm rests and cup holders. The next room over features a computer lab and game room, and down the hall is a kitchen of sorts, with a refrigerator, two new microwaves, and two new toaster ovens.

And unlike the barracks, each room is large and comes with not only a TV and a DVD player, but also queen-size beds for each of the wounded Marines.  Of the 15 bedrooms, two are single rooms equipped for residents in wheelchairs.

The mission of the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is to raise public awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women; to help severely injured service members to aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs.

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