The Special Operations Warrior Foundation is a top-rated charitable organization with an enduring promise to the children of fallen Special Operations Personnel and the children of all service members awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Foundation’s enduring promise to America’s Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Special Operations Personnel is to honor the fallen, and all Medal of Honor Recipients, by providing full educations and additional opportunities, “cradle to career” (preschool – college), to their children, ensuring:
(1) Comprehensive educational support including, but not limited to, academic advocacy, preschool and private school grants, tutoring, support for students with disabilities, college readiness programs, full financial assistance for up to a four-year post-secondary degree, access to our college to career transitions program, a commitment to cover educational costs for the surviving children of Special Operations Personnel whose spouses perish while the Special Operator is actively serving, while providing a variety of other practical programs and services.
(2) Provide immediate financial grants to severely combat-wounded, ill, and injured Special Operations Personnel who require hospitalization.
U.S. Veterans Magazine’s spring 2024 cover, Yellowstone star Cole Hauser, a strong believer in second chances, devotes much of his time to the Foundation. He chose the organization because of its legitimacy, he said. Generals, many of whom have seen action, are on the board of directors.
Hauser described them as, “Guys who are looking out for their own. These are guys who served. The money is going in the right pockets.”
The charity, based in Tampa, Florida, started in the aftermath of the failed attempt to rescue 52 American hostages in Iran on April 24, 1980. The foundation’s president, Clay Hutmacher, has stated that the organization made a “battlefield promise” to care for the 17 children left behind by the eight Americans killed. The foundation was formed via the Col. Arthur D. “Bull” Simons Scholarship Fund, named in honor of the legendary Army Green Beret, Bull Simons, who repeatedly risked his life on rescue missions.
Since its inception, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation has awarded 1,100 scholarships.
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