Home Building / Adaptation Projects in New Jersey

Mike Minard
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Union Beach, NJ

Army Sgt. Michael Minard, 26, of Grand Junction, Colo., was on his third tour in Iraq when tragedy struck. Sgt. Minard lost both of his legs in the explosion.

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Visnu Gonzalez
Branch: Marines
Rank: Corporal
Home: Hillsdale, NJ

On April 21st, 2004, while serving in Iraq, Corporal Visnu Gonzalez was shot by a sniper, severing his spinal cord in the C-6, C-7 level. He also received a shot to his left subclavian artery that caused severe bleeding and near death. Despite surgery to stabilize his vertebra, today, Cpl Gonzalez remains paralyzed from the upper chest down.

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Andrew Robinson
Branch: Marines
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Florence, NJ

June 20, 2006 was a day that began like most others for Staff Sgt. Andrew Robinson. Andy, a counterintelligence specialist, was embarking on a mission to collect information to aid in the killing, capture, or disturbance of a highly effective insurgent IED cell responsible for several friendly casualties in his unit's battle space. It was that morning that would prove to be unlike any other for Robinson, his wife Sara and his family.

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James Benoit
Branch: Army
Rank: Specialist
Home: Wharton, NJ

SPC Benoit was severely wounded Sept. 8, 2005, by a roadside bomb attack in Iraq that severely wounded his backside, and left him confined to a wheelchair with the long-term prognosis that he may never walk again without assistance. SPC Benoit spent six months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, undergoing 77 operations to repair wounds that he has suffered.

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News and Updates

Mile High system for injured Marine On November 10, 2009, five and a half years after being felled by sniper fire in Fallujah on his second tour of duty, 26 year old Corporal Visnu Gonzalez will cut a ribbon and wheel into his new green, state of the art adapted home in Hillsdale, New Jersey.

Free home for wounded Iraq vet A motorcycle escort preceeded retired Marine Staff Sgt. Andy Robinson and his wife Sara as they arrived to accept the keys to their new home on 5th Street in Florence.

Fun-Run and Walk to Benefit Homes for Our Troops Lubbock, November 6, 2008: This Sunday, November 9, at 8:00 am, citizens will gather at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Rec Center to join the Tech Law Military Association's Run for Freedom.

Iraq vet's home takes shape A three-day Build Brigade event to build a home for a disabled veteran here with Homes for Our Troops continued Friday as a completed framework was erected by the end of the day.

A warrior's reward: His own accessible home Yesterday, amid the din of banging hammers and whining saws, he and his wife, Sara, caught a glimpse of a brighter future as 100 volunteers held an old-fashioned house-raising in Florence.

Making a house a soldier's home After he was badly injured in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Andrew Robinson, 25, moved back to the States to recover and move forward with civilian life.

Community rallies to support injured Marine Retired Staff Sgt. Andrew Robinson rallied to rehabilitate himself from injuries sustained as a Marine in Iraq. Now, his community is rallying to support him.

Five Severely Injured Veterans Receive Free Homes, Just in Time for Christmas Non-profit organization, Homes for Our Troops donates another five homes to severely inured service members across the USA.

Non-profit building a home for paralyzed veteran Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Welcome home, Jim Benoit 'Fighting Knight' injured in Iraq gets loving greeting at Morris Hills