So what makes a wounded war ? How you
the Air Force Wounded Warrior program
is a program for severely ill injured
and wounded members of the Air Force as
well as the Space Force and that
includes active duty Reserve and Guard .
They are a program that allows members
after experiencing unfortunate events
or illnesses in their life . It , it
allows them to either return to duty
provides resources for that return to
duty as well as a help in transition .
Should the return to duty not be an
option ? My name is Tech
Sergeant Sloan Pacheco . I am active
duty Air Force and airman leadership
school instructor at Davis Malton Air
Force Base and an air force wounded
warrior ambassador . My name is Ian
Spreen . I am an outreach and
ambassador coordinator with the Air
Force Wounded Wire program . When a
member first um attends our first care
event , they are assigned to a track
and if they chose adaptive sports ,
they learn a little bit of wheelchair
rugby , wheelchair basketball , sitting
volleyball among other sports . And if
it's something that they are passionate
about and they find um a lot of healing
and therapy and being part of that team ,
they have the opportunity to uh attend
the air force wounded warrior trials
where they can earn a spot on the air
force wounded warrior team to compete
in the dod for your games . So the
air Force trials is where wars will
compete and they'll compete to be on
the air force team and from the air
force team , they'll do , they'll do
training from as a team , the war games
training and then they will go to the
Warrior Games which will be held in
2024 at the ESPN Complex at Disney
World
with the adaptive sports . It meets the
warrior where they're at . So for
cycling , we have upright , we have
hand cycling , we have recumbent . So
it's not just for able bodies , right ?
It's for everybody . It's adaptable uh
for a reason because the doctors , they
patch them up and the wound warrior
program helps them in the recovery and
build a sense of purpose . When you get
your , you have a new normal .
Sometimes finding a purpose is
difficult and the warrior program helps
these warriors get a purpose . Again .
If you ever come to a car event , I
want you to look around and look at
faces . What you're gonna see is smiles ,
lots of smiles . Um There's a lot of
breakthroughs and I won't expand on
what those are , but there are a lot of
breakthroughs throughout the week and
that is really what I would say . The
community is in the wound wire program .