DeWALT Power tools Outfits Lone Survivor Foundation Retreat Facility on Bolivar Peninsula, TX with Workshop for Veterans
Beaumont, Texas March 30, 2016: Wounded service members and their family members who participate in future
Lone Survivor Foundation (LSF) healing retreats on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas facility will have access to a fully equipped, wood working shop donated by DEWALT Tools.
Members of
DEWALT and Coastal Welding Supply of Beaumont, Texas met recently with LSF Executive Director Terry Jung of Houston, TX and the retreat’s builder and facility manager Brian Byrom, of the Bolivar Peninsula firm, Brint Construction, to determine the needs of service members attending the four day retreats held throughout the year. DEWALT and Coastal Welding Supply, business partners and long- time supporters of veteran programs, thought a workshop would be an ideal opportunity to give back to our service men and women, along with their family members, who have given so much for each of us.
On March 24, three DEWALT trucks loaded with power tools, work benches, tool chests and other donated equipment were delivered to the retreat facility and installed by members of the Lone Survivor Foundation, Brint Construction, Coastal Welding Supply and DEWALT.
DEWALT’s Chris Feifel, Houston Account Manager, along with Field Marketing Coordinator, Tom Diekemper and Sales Coordinator, Josh Tucker delivered and helped install the tools. Feifel shared his excitement to be involved with such a project and stated, “We are honored to be able to provide the retreat and its attendees the very best wood working project experience we can.” DEWALT Regional Construction Manager, Rick Misenheimer, who first met with Jung and Coastal representatives sent a congratulatory message and shared, ”Our team provided the necessary work stations to be handicap accessible and mobile so that retreat attendees can enjoy working both inside the shop and outside on the patio.”
Terry Jung, unable to attend the delivery, sent a message of thanks, “The Lone Survivor Foundation is extremely excited to have DEWALT and Coastal Welding Supply as supporters. The workshop will be a great addition to the LSF Bolivar facility that will become a unique element of retreat activities for the service members. We see the workshop as a means of allowing retreat participants to work together while building peer to peer bonds in an empowering environment.”
J.C. “Chuck” Mazoch, President of Coastal Welding Supply, and his team spearheaded the project for LSF and is also grateful to DEWALT for their overwhelming and generous contribution. “A special thank you to DEWALT, who has been a great Coastal business partner, “said Mazoch, as he looked around the tool filled room. “With their support, we were able to facilitate the supply of tools required to create the Bolivar Lone Survivor Foundation workshop.”
The
Delivery Team (from left to right) Lone Survivor Foundation Program
Director Ann Brown, Dewalt Representatives; Field Marketing Coordinator, Tom
Diekemper, Account Manager Chris Feifel
and Sales Coordinator, Josh Tucker, Coastal Welding Supply’s Director of
Marketing Cindy Yohe Lindsay, President J.C. “Chuck” Mazoch, Corporate
Secretary Barbara Mazoch Nelson and Vice President Tom Johnson, Lone Survivor
Foundation Marketing Director Jen Brown and Brian Byrom, of Brint Construction,
lead facilitator of the retreat’s creation and construction.
About the Lone Survivor Foundation: The Lone Survivor Foundation was established in 2010 by US Navy SEAL (Ret.) Marcus Luttrell to restore, empower, and renew hope to wounded service members and their families through health, wellness, and therapeutic support. The Foundation serves active duty service men and women, veterans and their families and focuses on the wounds you cannot see, the invisible wounds of war; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and chronic pain.Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, the 2007 #1 New York Times best-selling book, tells the harrowing, emotionally raw account and motivational story of his survival and the deaths of his comrades-in-arms in Operation Redwing, a mission to gather intelligence on Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. Marcus’ NEVER QUIT attitude was key to his survival and his recovery at home.The Foundation is dedicated to honoring and remembering American service members by providing unique educational, rehabilitation, recovery, and wellness opportunities to U.S. Armed Forces members and their families. Find out more at lonesurvivorfoundation.org.
For More information please contact Cindy Yohe Lindsay at 409.658.8918 or clindsay@coastalws.com