Balad Airman creates wounded warrior program

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  • By Senior Airman Andria J. Allmond
  • 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq (AFNS) --  An Airman here helped develop the Balad Wounded Warrior Program, a program created to ease the transition of wounded servicemembers through the medical evacuation process.

Senior Airman Raymond Jones, a plans and programming projects manager with the 332nd Expeditionary Communications Squadron, started the program Oct. 3 after he experienced the medavac process firsthand.

"I received an injury where I dislocated my knee, requiring me to be evacuated to Germany," he said. "It was a confusing time for me, but I told myself that if I was given the chance to redeploy, there were two objectives I wanted to meet. First, my goal was a dedication to the mission and completing the task for which I was deployed. The second goal was to start a wounded warriors program at JBB."

The BWWP serves as a centralized location where individuals can bring items to donate to wounded servicemembers who are waiting to be transported to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

"Anyone on base can drop off donations and know that they will be going to help our wounded warriors from here to Landstuhl," Airman Jones said. 

Airman Jones is deployed from McChord Air Force Base, Wash.