Home Building Projects in Colorado
Brian Meyer
Branch: Marines
Rank: Gunnery Sergeant
Home: Broomfield, CO
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Brian Meyer was six months into his third deployment when he lost his right leg above the knee, his right arm below the elbow, and suffered the amputations of his thumb and two fingers on his left hand in an IED blast in Sangin, Afghanistan on March 14, 2011.
Matthew Parker
Branch: Army
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Elizabeth, CO
Army Sergeant Matthew Parker was on his first deployment when he lost both of his legs in an IED blast in Ramadi, Iraq on December 24, 2006. Medically evacuated by helicopter, SGT Parker was treated at the hospital in Balad before being transported to Landstuhl, Germany. He awoke at Walter Reed Army Medical Center four days later, unaware that his injuries would require that he remain there for sixteen months, enduring more than a dozen surgeries before he could medically retire and move to Fort Collins, Colorado.
Gabe Martinez
Branch: Marines
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Denver, CO
Marine Sergeant Gabe Martinez was on his 2nd deployment when he lost both of his legs after stepping on an IED in the Helmand Province in Afghanistan on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2010. While conducting a route clearance mission, a vehicle in the convoy hit an IED; Sgt. Martinez and his team immediately began a foot patrol in search of any enemy in the area. As he approached the side of the disabled vehicle, Sgt. Martinez stepped on a second IED, causing the traumatic amputations of both of his legs.
Patrick (PJ) Glavey
Branch: Marines
Rank: Captain
Home: Thornton, CO
Marine Captain Patrick (PJ) Glavey was one and a half months into his first deployment when he lost both of his legs in an IED blast in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on October 28, 2010. While working on a routine clearing operation with the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team and members of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, Cpt. Glavey stepped on an IED resulting in...
Nick Orchowski
Branch: Army
Rank: Corporal
Home: Parker, CO
Army Corporal Nick Orchowski was on his first deployment when he was left a quadriplegic after being thrown from the gunner’s hatch of a vehicle that was hit during an insurgents’ attack, in Baghdad, Iraq in May 2004. Married only four days before deploying to Iraq, CPL Orchowski was the main gunner of the lead vehicle in a convoy, when they came under attack while on the main supply route leading into Baghdad.
Brian Schar
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Elizabeth, CO
Army Staff Sergeant Brian Schar was on his third deployment when he lost both of his legs above the knees and suffered nerve damage to his left arm when an Explosively Formed Penetrator was fired at his vehicle in Baghdad, Iraq on September 19, 2007. While on a mission and on route to another base, the platoon received word about a possible IED in the road. As his vehicle slowed, SSG Schar looked out the window and saw an EFP on the side of the bridge they were crossing... it was at that moment the Projectile was detonated, blasting into the side of the vehicle.
Latseen Benson
Branch: Army
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Elizabeth, CO
Army Sergeant Latseen Benson was on his second deployment to Iraq in November 2005 when a bomb blast caused the immediate amputations of both of his legs. While on patrol with his unit, his vehicle came upon an IED, halting the convoy in Kirkuk, Iraq. SGT Benson was ordered to search the perimeter of his vehicle and while doing so, a bomb buried in a grain sack exploded causing the traumatic amputations of both of his legs.
Jeffrey Adams
Branch: Army
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Black Forest, CO
Army Sergeant Jeffrey Adams lost both of his legs due to injuries suffered while deployed to Afghanistan in August 2009. While on his second deployment, SGT Adams was returning to base from the Pesh River Valley when the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle he was riding in ran over a pressure plated IED. Pulled from the damaged vehicle, SGT Adams has no recollection of what happened prior to or after the blast.
Tim "TJ" Johannsen
Branch: Army
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Elizabeth, CO
Army SGT Tim "TJ" Johannsen was on his second deployment when he was left a double amputee after an IED explosion in Iraq in June 2007. Shortly after a position rotation which left him as the driver of an HMMWV, SGT Johannsen’s vehicle rolled over a pressure plated IED that exploded through the floorboard, immediately amputating his right leg below the knee and his left leg above the knee.
Kade Hinkhouse
Branch: Marines
Rank: Lance Corporal
Home: Elizabeth, CO
Marine Lance Corporal Kade Hinkhouse was in Ramadi, Iraq in October 2005 when while patrolling on a late night mission, the vehicle in which he was riding as part of a convoy was hit by a dual stacked IED. The HUMVEE exploded, ejecting LCpl Hinkhouse and leaving him near death with injuries including a depressed skull fracture, collapsed lungs and a severe leg injury.
John Jones
Branch: Marines
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Fort Collins, CO
SSgt John P. Jones was serving in Iraq with the 1st Battalion/ 7th Marines when he was severely injured on January 3, 2005. John was in the 7th vehicle of a 35-vehicle convoy when it hit a double-stacked anti-tank mine. The mine that exploded under his hummer launched him 25 feet through the top of the vehicle.
Matthew Keil
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Parker, CO
On his second tour of duty the 25-year-old soldier was hit by sniper fire near Ramadi, Iraq. The injury left him a quadriplegic, though he has regained some use of his left arm. Homes for Our Troops is proud to build this Hero a home adapted to his needs.
Travis Strong
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Golden, CO
SSG Strong, 29, was in the middle of his second tour in Iraq when the Stryker armored combat vehicle he was patrolling in was hit by a roadside bomb called an explosively formed penetrator.
He lost both of his legs in that explosion and has undergone months of rehabilitation, recovery and therapy to learn how to use his new prosthetics.
Christopher Fesmire
Branch: Marines
Rank: Sergeant
Home: Hartsel, CO
Sgt Fesmire joined the Marines when he was 19 years old because he wanted to get out and see the world and have some adventures. He served for 4 years and then was called back in 2004 to serve in Kuwait. Chris says that being called back to the Marines was like "coming home."
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