Summit for Soldiers: Everest 2010

Bryan Chapman is an Army Special Forces Officer who has served his country for more than 20 years. He is now combining his love for his fellow servicemen and endurance athleticism as he embarks on an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. He will depart at the end of March and summit sometime during the last three weeks in May. This is a life-long dream for him. He is so passionate about it that his fifteen month old son has “Everest” as a middle name. True to his character, fulfilling his own dream is not enough. Bryan  wants to leverage this as a chance to support the families and children of fallen soldiers by allowing them to fulfill their own dreams through education. He is raising money to donate to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides full scholarship grants, education and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.

 

Every penny counts. Any donation, small or large, will go a long way towards honoring our nation’s heroes by taking care of the families they left behind in order to protect and serve each of us and our own families.

 

Please show your support for our troops and for Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Chapman as he Summits for Soldiers in 2010!

More about the Cause:

The Special Operations Warrior Foundation mission is devoted to providing a college education to every child who has lost a parent while serving in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps Special Operations during an operational or training mission. The forces covered by the Foundation are some 50,000 military special operations and support personnel stationed in units throughout the United States and overseas bases.

The Warrior Foundation is currently committed to providing scholarship grants, not loans, to more than 760 children. These children survive over 600 Special Operations personnel who gave their lives in patriotic service to their country, including those who died fighting our nation's war against terrorism as part of "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan and the Philippines as well as "Operation Iraqi Freedom." To date, 143 children of fallen special operations warriors have graduated from college.

The Special Operations Warrior Foundation also provides immediate financial assistance to special operations personnel severely wounded in the global war on terror. Once notified of a special operations soldier, airman, sailor or Marine hospitalized with a severe injury, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation immediately sends funds to the service member (or his/her designated recipient) so the family and loved ones can immediately travel to be bedside.

To date, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation has provided over $700,000 to wounded special operations personnel.