Speaker 1: It's the week we're raising money for Warrior Foundation Freedom Station.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this for years. We're gonna try to
Speaker 1: raise five hundred thousand dollars this week at least. At
Speaker 1: least UM, I'm hoping we blow past that. But these
Speaker 1: are weird times, so we didn't know what to set
Speaker 1: for a goal. UH. We thought maybe a real good
Speaker 1: way to just explain what it is, UM and UH
Speaker 1: tickle whatever bone we gotta tickle to make you want
Speaker 1: to donate. Is UH talking to one of one of
Speaker 1: the heroes that have actually been it fitted from Warrior
Speaker 1: Foundation Freedom Station. Isaac Blunt is with US. Isaak was
Speaker 1: part of the first Battalion, fifth Marine Regiment, based out
Speaker 1: of Camp Pendleton, California, deployed to Afghanistan in eleven and
Speaker 1: UH while serving his point man during a foot patrol,
Speaker 1: Isaac stepped on an i e d resulted in the
Speaker 1: loss of both of his legs, his left eye, several
Speaker 1: fingers on his left hand. Um, we've met Isaac. He
Speaker 1: is a great dude and UH and his you know,
Speaker 1: climbing back into the life with the help of Warrior
Speaker 1: Foundation Freedom Station. I think it's good to talk to you. Man.
Speaker 1: How are you doing. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. What was the road between being
Speaker 1: blown up by the I E. D. And getting to
Speaker 1: Warrior Foundation? What was happening in between? And how long
Speaker 1: did that take? Oh? It was a blast, um so
Speaker 1: my uh coming from Balboa, I actually um lived in
Speaker 1: an apartment by myself for a little while and then UM,
Speaker 1: I was on my way to UM. I had another
Speaker 1: foundation that was building me a house up here in Fallbrook.
Speaker 1: And in between then I was at having to live,
Speaker 1: um find an apartment and everything. In Warrior Foundation, actually
Speaker 1: they saved a spot for me, um, and they kept
Speaker 1: it open just to make sure that I actually had
Speaker 1: a place to go if I needed a fallback somewhere. Hey,
Speaker 1: how old were you when you were medically retired in shoot? Um?
Speaker 1: Yeah so and at two having gone in the military,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you didn't have a lot of sperience with
Speaker 1: living on your own. Oh no, not at all. Um.
Speaker 1: I joined the military eighteen, and I was by the
Speaker 1: time I was twenty, I was injured. UM just got it,
Speaker 1: just got divorced, and I had no idea how it
Speaker 1: was to live on my own and just being like
Speaker 1: kind of sitting in a one bedroom apartment by myself.
Speaker 1: It was it was a little lonely. You know, there
Speaker 1: are v a programs available and and the Department of
Speaker 1: Defense has some programs, but from what we've heard, they're
Speaker 1: notoriously slow. And and if a guy in your life
Speaker 1: situation has to wait like a year and a half
Speaker 1: two years for this stuff to kick in, man, that
Speaker 1: can be devastating. And that's that's why we're such a
Speaker 1: big believers in Warrior Foundation Freedom Station. I know you
Speaker 1: are too, absolutely. Um the Warrior Foundation, they help with
Speaker 1: any if there's any type of meat needs that way,
Speaker 1: they help you, like to fill that gap like that
Speaker 1: time in between that you're waiting on things like that.
Speaker 1: They they're there to kind of help with um, that
Speaker 1: that in between time and make it make it so
Speaker 1: much easier. And we've heard so many, so much from
Speaker 1: you guys over the years about how the loss of
Speaker 1: the camaraderie, the structure, everything that you had in the military.
Speaker 1: You know, all that disappears overnight when you get wounded, Uh,
Speaker 1: you get injured and then you're out on your own
Speaker 1: and just all of that at once is you know,
Speaker 1: it's too much for anybody to deal with. And Warrior
Speaker 1: Foundation steps in and then how do they how do
Speaker 1: they provide you structure and camaraderie? How does that factor
Speaker 1: into your life? At the Freedom Station, they have UM
Speaker 1: houses right there. They have a little UM our huts
Speaker 1: that kind of everybody's in close proximity. It's a gated,
Speaker 1: gated area, so you know, nobody that doesn't isn't supposed
Speaker 1: to be there is getting in. UM. There's other guys
Speaker 1: that are there as well, other vets, other military personnel
Speaker 1: that come in and they bring in the camaraderie like
Speaker 1: just like that, especially with the wolf Pack. I mean
Speaker 1: they bring veterans from UM, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have any we haven't had any
Speaker 1: airmen in there yet, but UM just bringing us together
Speaker 1: to play, play a game or a play spur it
Speaker 1: that we all love. And it's the Warrior Foundation provides
Speaker 1: for that. They make it where we They give us
Speaker 1: the access to be able to do that, and the
Speaker 1: UM excuse me, the mobility and the wheelchairs to keep
Speaker 1: doing that, you know, right, and the guys are counting
Speaker 1: on you, which I know means a lot to a
Speaker 1: guy who is you know, a marine. It's it's a
Speaker 1: team thing. Hey, Isaac is great to talk to you. Man.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time. We're doing our best. Our audience
Speaker 1: is doing our best. And uh and thanks good to
Speaker 1: talk to you. It's good talk. Good talking with you two.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So it takes money to make Warrior Foundation
Speaker 1: Freedom Station work. Beviously, we're trying to raise a half
Speaker 1: million dollars this week. I'm just looking at this study
Speaker 1: right here that a quarter of adults planned by a
Speaker 1: Christmas present for themselves this year. The stock market closing
Speaker 1: lyon the stock market closed almost thirty thou points yesterday. Now,
Speaker 1: I know some of you are having the worst year
Speaker 1: of your lives financially, but those of you who aren't
Speaker 1: or her having the best year of your lives. Because
Speaker 1: some people are, some businesses are exploding. How about you
Speaker 1: throw with a little money go to Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: dot com. Armstrong and Getty dot com. Just to sum
Speaker 1: it up, it's at the point that these warriors at
Speaker 1: the highest risk of homelessness, joblessness, suicide, the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Warrior Foundation Freedom Stration Freedom Station is there for post
Speaker 1: traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury. They're there with transitional housing,
Speaker 1: new prosthetic limbs, rehab, helping a kid who's never wanted
Speaker 1: to be anything but a marine. Now he's not only
Speaker 1: not a marine, but he's been injured, sometimes terribly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good luck by No No No Warrior Foundation Freedom Station
Speaker 1: doesn't do that. They help these guys adjust and and
Speaker 1: and make the transition to happy, productive lives. It's a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful thing, and we need your support. Go to Armstrong
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