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Review for Veterans Airlift Command, Saint Louis Park, MN, USA
Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) does a great job of coordinating air transportation between Veterans who need help and private/corporate pilots who have volunteered to provide free trips. I have flown four missions, the most recent taking a Marine with neurological problems due to a brain injury from Camp LeJune to a specialized center in Atlanta, the Shepherd Center. A grueling 6 hour ground trip, or a potentially confusing commercial flight with two or three stops became a relaxed, point to point two hour flight. Other missions included getting an Soldier home from the hospital in time for his daughter's graduation, and taking the wife of a service member to Walter Reed to be with her husband during treatment. As a combat Veteran myself, I understand all too well where the gaps are in the system, and VAC helps bridge one of these gaps.
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The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
great. Communications between hospital staff, the pilot, and the Veteran were extremely well handled.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
expand the awareness of the services and mission, as well as have back up commercial transportation when general aviation can't fly due to weather.
Ways to make it better...
the weather would cooperate!
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
lack of awareness of the availability of the service.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every six months
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
