Pat Dollard | Young Americans

My good buddy, Marine Veteran Tommy Chandler, over at Chandler’s Watch, alerted me to this fundraiser in the Southern California area this weekend for the Non-Profit Organization called Community Catalysts Veterans Transitional Services.

This from their website:

CCVTS provides case management, affordable, accessible housing, daily living skills training, job development, on-the-job coaching, and follow-up services to assure long-term success. Our goal is to help service members receive the support they need to transition back to living and working in the community.

Working primarily with service members exiting Naval Medical Center San Diego and partnering with the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, the program has already placed seven individuals in their own homes. There is currently a waiting list of service members who will join the program once suitable housing and funding are identified.

We are currently seeking private as well as public funding to help the program become financially sustainable. Community support is the most critical element in our efforts to provide care and hope to these service members who have sacrificed so much for our country.

Visit their website here.

And if you live in the Southern california Area, go to the “Grill our Own Steak” (Damn! I have been working on this story for the last 15 minutes and everytime I think, type, or see that phrase “Grill your own steak” I freak out. Been too long since I had a good steak. I know what I’m having tonight!) fundraiser:

And I’ll also throw a plug in for the Chandler’s Watch Radio Show, all Marines talking about the issues of the day that concern all members of our Armed Forces, Veterans, Active, Reserves, or Retired. It comes on Saturdays at 1700 hours and Sundays at 10am
on San Diego 1700am Radio. Tommy was…where were you Tommy? Oh yeah, 1st Light Armored Recon Bn ‘91 -’97, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton. Then Howie, you guys know Howie, he produces that show.

Support the Troops! Go grill a steak!