Home Building / Adaptation Projects in Wisconsin

Jeremy Stengel
Branch: Marine
Rank: Corporal
Home: Waterford, WI

Marine Corporal Jeremy Stengel lost his left leg and suffered severe muscle and nerve damage to his right leg, when an IED struck his vehicle while on a route clearing mission, in Iraq on January 31, 2007. Cpl. Stengel and his comrades were performing an IED sweep of the main supply routes in the area. Cpl. Stengel and three additional Marines were the last vehicle in the procession when they struck an IED.

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Jason Schulz
Branch: Army
Rank: Specialist
Home: Eagle, WI

Army SPC Jason M. Schulz was returning from a vehicle recovery mission in November 2007 when the Salvage and Recovery Wrecker he was riding in struck an IED in Mosul, Iraq. The blast ripped through the door on the right side of the truck, hitting the location where SPC Schulz was seated.

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Charles Isaacson
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Home: Sun Prairie, WI

SSG Charles Isaacson was injured February 18, 2007. He was on his 8th tour overseas and only 5 days away from coming home when his helicopter crashed in Southern Afghanistan. Eight of the twenty two passengers did not survive the crash.

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News and Updates

Volunteers build house for wounded veteran Homes for Our Troops, a national nonprofit organization, coordinated an effort to build a new home for Schulz, his wife, Polina, and their baby girl on the way.

Army of volunteers building home for Iraq war veteran who lost his legs n army of volunteers kicked off a construction blitz Wednesday to build a home for Army Spc. Jason M. Schulz, a soldier who lost both his legs in Iraq when a roadside bomb detonated and shrapnel ripped through his vehicle.

Group Builds Homes for Veterans A local soldier will come home in a wheelchair, but because of dozens of complete strangers he will also own a brand new customized home... free.

House is thank-you to soldier Volunteers build home to suit wounded veteran

Second homecoming for local soldier A nonprofit hopes to give a local wounded veteran a new start by giving him a new home.

Nonprofit donates home to injured Wisconsin veteran Isaacson, 29, and his wife, Brenda, will likely be in a new home by Christmas, and it will be built by strangers who showed up with tools and a place in their heart to give back to a wounded veteran who gave up the ability to walk.

A new home in Sun Prairie at no cost for a disabled veteran and his wife If a house is a home that shelters the body and comforts the soul, then Brenda and Chuck Isaacson found out Wednesday that they already have half a house.