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Provide Help to Paratrooper Veterans and Families:

• Financial Assistance

• Possible assistance with Bills

• Help with the Veterans Administration

• Grief Counseling

• Morale enhancing programs: teaching disabled veterans to fly fish (for example); taking disabled veterans motorcycle riding, and other activities

• Connect with other veteran organizations and social services that will help address the veteran's needs

• Other assistance as determined by the Chapter members

 

St. Michael's All Airborne Chapter assisted: 

• Our largest support over the last two years was provided to a young 101st Airborne Division Veteran and his family, Brian Barnes.  Our Chapter orchestrated/raised and provided support exceeding $16,000 for such necessities as housing at Duke Hospital for Brian and his mother during his bone marrow transplants/chemo, clothing, apartment expenses after leaving Duke, furnishings, utility deposits, and many other related expenses. 

• We provided $2,500 directly to the Lung Health Institute in Nashville, TN to help the spouse of a 100% Disabled Veteran who required stem cell treatment for a rare lung disease. 

• We paid $500 towards the funeral of the child of a 100% disabled Veteran who did not have adequate funding to pay for a respectable funeral and burial.

• We purchased 82nd Airborne Division medals of accomplishment to present to North Carolina JROTC students who performed outstanding support to our Veterans throughout the state of NC.

• We have “adopted” numerous deployed platoons of Soldiers from Fort Bragg over the past several years, and provided them with periodic care packages during their deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

• We purchased a new recliner to a needy, disabled Veteran who had half his tongue and parts of his throat removed.  This provided this Veteran with a comfortable environment until his recent death.

• We assisted with funeral expenses for a 101 year old Paratrooper Veteran who made all 4 combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II.  Without our help, this Veteran and American hero would not have had the funeral he so richly deserved.  We also coordinated an 18 man funeral detail that was provided by the 82nd Airborne Division to ensure he received full military honors.

• We provided donations to Fort Bragg to assist young enlisted families who were impacted by various hurricanes over the last 2 years.  These funds replaced food items that were lost during power outages, as well as assisting with non-insured losses during the flooding.

• We assisted an Airborne veteran in Texas who was impacted by the super hard freeze in early 2021, and had his pipes freeze and burst.  He has 4 young children and cash-strapped.  We paid for his entire repair bill.

• We assisted financially in making a vehicle payment of a 100% disabled Veteran who the Veterans Administration erroneously reduced to 10%.  We also worked with the VA to rectify the mistake, however it took 3 months to rectify and the disabled veteran would have had his only vehicle repossessed had we not provided help.