LHCP Vice President-To update VA hospital needs and honoree questions?

LHCP Treasurer-How can I donate money to LHCP to support our wounded troops?

LHCP Newsletter Editor-All newsletter questions?

Membership Coordinator-Yahoo Group Membership & coupon sorting questions-

Youth/Scout Coordinator-All youth and scout project questions-

Webmaster-All webpage questions?

During her adult life, she has been involved with each and every branch of the military services as either an employee or volunteer worker. She began her volunteer work with the USO at Andersen AFB, Guam with the 605^th Military Airlift Command. She became the Manager of the Andersen AFB USO Facility.

While attending Central Texas College in Paralegal Studies, she worked at the United States Air Force Legal Office and the United States Army Legal Office, traveling throughout northern Germany and the Benelux Region in her capacity as a U.S. Tax preparer for Department of Defense personnel. 

She has worked for the Combat Equipment Group-Europe, headquartered in Kerkrade, Netherlands, Lockheed Martin Logistics Management in Seckenheim, Germany, During this time she was also TDY to Bosnia, Hungary and Croatia during Joint Guard and Joint Forge with the Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Raytheon Aerospace, Moody AFB, Georgia. 

Karen has served as the 1st vice president of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 290, Stafford, VA..  She is also a member of the honor society for the women of the legion and the auxiliary, Rippon Salon 737, Eight and Forty.

Karen has been married for 28 years.  She is the mother of adult children.  One son is serving in the U.S. Navy and a daughter is married to an U.S. Air Force member. She is the grandmother of three. 

Karen has been a resident of 10 states and 1 US territory. Karen has also had the pleasure to live, work, and play in 22 countries. During her travels she has visited 42 of the 50 states belonging to the USA. Karen currently resides in Virginia and can be contacted at LHCP President.

Brad Scott joined LHCP after Sharon, the Treasurer, told him they needed a new Senior Vice President.  After she told him about the project and what these ladies were doing for our wounded warriors and others, and thinking back on his own wounded troops who transited Landstuhl, he couldn’t say anything but “Yes” and “Thank you!”

Growing up in a large family in a small Nebraska town, he learned early about the dedication, perseverance, respect, and mutual concern that carry good people through long winters and hard times.  During his military career, he repeatedly found these same qualities in the outstanding men and women with whom he served.  In fact, those qualities never seemed stronger than when those men and women were confronted with the worst of situations.  LHCP fully exemplifies these traits – good people coming together to help others through the worst of situations.   

Brad’s married to the former Dawn Wilson, a British Royal Air Force “brat” and proud naturalized American citizen.  Despite spending her entire life living at the whim of one military career or another, she’s never faltered in her steadfast dedication to her husband and family.  He thanks God for her each and every day.  They have five kids; Elizabeth, Michael, Sabrina, Benjamin, and Sean.  Sean, the youngest, is a sophomore in high school.  The older four are now grown and making their own way in the world.   

He retired from the US Air Force in March 2009, after over 27 years of service, including three ground combat tours of Iraq between March 2003 and January 2008.  He’s currently an Intelligence Analyst with the Dismounted Incident Analysis Team (DIAT) at the US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, GA.  As part of the DoD Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injuries in Combat (JTAPIC) partnership, the DIAT analyzes casualty-producing dismounted combat incidents to identify potential improvements in equipment, weapons, tactics, doctrine, and training to prevent future casualties.  

Serving alongside the dedicated people of the LHCP seems like a natural extension of his “day job” and he’s very much looking forward to the challenge.

Brad can be contacted at LHCP Senior VP

Maria describes herself as an “army brat.”  Her father was career Army, with two tours in Viet Nam, and her mother worked for the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon for 20 years.  Her brother was in the Army and Maria worked for the Navy for two summers during college.  She still feels tied to the military and wants to help as much as she can.

She works for an environmental consulting company in Wilmington, North Carolina as an office administrator/technical editor.  The majority of the company’s work is for the military (Fort Bragg, Camp LeJeune, Pope Air Force Base,and many other installations).

Maria has a variety of volunteer experience.  Most recently, she volunteered in the surgical waiting room and cancer center of her local hospital.  She has stuffed envelopes for a literacy non-profit; answered phones for a radio station fundraiser; and she crochets hats, scarves, and blankets for the homeless and cancer patients.

Maria was a contributor to LHCP for a year prior to becoming LHCP’s secretary in January 2008.  As she stated when she was named secretary, “I really admire what the organization stands for and all the hard work that goes into it.  I look forward to becoming more involved.”

Maria can be contacted at lhcp.secretary@yahoo.com.

Sharon became active with LHCP in 2005 when she began looking to volunteer for an organization that works with wounded U. S. Military service members.   When LHCP began the application process to become a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization, Sharon accepted Karen’s request to become the Treasurer.  Over the years she has volunteered for many organizations.  However, she has found her home with the important mission of LHCP.

Sharon has over 31 years of computer software development experience and has taught as a part-time Adjunct Instructor for over 21 years focusing on information technology courses.

She is married to Thomas Buck, a retired First Sergeant in the U. S. Army.  Sharon has one daughter and one delightful grandson.  Sharon and Tom have semi-retired in Alabama, just across the Chattahoochee River near Fort Benning.  They have recently become happy owners of two black lab puppies who are brothers.

Both Sharon and Tom are employed as defense contractors working at the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Georgia.  Sharon works for the Soldier Systems Branch of the Soldier Requirements Divisions (CDID) when she works on a team that evaluates Soldier requirements (pertaining to anything the Soldier wears, carries or consumes).

Sharon can be contacted at LHCP Treasurer.

Karen Grimord’s presentation in December 2008, describing the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project during a BAE Systems Charity event hit a cord with Cindy.  As an Air Force Brat she truly appreciates the sacrifices that those in the military and their families make every day.  She lived on several military bases while growing up and graduated from Kaiserslautern American High School right down the road from Landstuhl.   

Cindy’s day job is the Vice President of Benefits for BAE Systems, Inc., a global defense, security and aerospace company with approximately 105,000 employees worldwide.

She joined the company in 2003 and currently manages all US benefit plans. Her responsibilities include strategy, design, operations, M&A integration and communications for retirement and health and welfare plans serving over 45,000 employees.   In addition she is the HR lead for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, she is a strategic partner with the M&A function.

Over her career she has developed 25 years experience in various positions in Human Resources and Procurement at US Airways and Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). She earned her MBA International Business from George Washington University and is a Senior Human Resource Member.   She is married with two teenage children and enjoys traveling, reading, skiing and golfing.

Cindy can be contacted at LHCP.Policy

Gael is from Plano, Texas, where she lives with her husband Bryan and two of her four children.  Her eldest daughter lives nearby and is about to make Gael a grandmother, four times over – through adoption!  Her son is in the Army and will be deployed to the Middle East this year (2010).  She went to Abilene Christian University in Texas where she studied Creative Writing/Journalism.

Gael joined LHCP in August of 2008 after surfing the net looking for ways to use her sewing skills for wounded warriors.  She has been sewing since she was 7 or 8, when her grandmother taught her to sew on an old treadle machine.  Gael is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution and besides sewing, her other hobbies are quilting, embroidery, genealogy, watching volleyball, listening to Celtic music, and cooking.

Gael can be contacted at LHCP.SoL

Rachel Hause
Newsletter Editor

Rachel is a self-employed writer and editor who lives in Minnesota with her husband. Prior to starting her own business, she worked as a technical writer for seven years in Nebraska and Minnesota. She has prepared her church’s weekly newsletter since 2000 and prepared a monthly newsletter for Boy Scout Troop 123 for several years.

Rachel first learned about LHCP when she helped her sons’ Boy Scout troop conduct a drive for Landstuhl Hospital Care Project. Her involvement with LHCP grew, and she served as LHCP secretary for two years in addition to preparing LHCP’s quarterly newsletter, the LHCP Update (available on our website under the News button). 

LHCP has benefited from Rachel recruiting her husband and one of his colleagues to assist with the organization’s application for its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. This was granted with an effective date of May 26th 2005. 

Rachel has two sons—one who will be commissioned as an Army 2Lt in May 2008 and one who serves in the Marines. 

Rachel can be contacted at LHCP Editor.

Patricia first became active with LHCP when she organized a fundraiser with her son’s cub scout troop in 2008.  Since then she has helped behind the scenes with donations and assisting Maria Waddell in her secretarial duties.

Patricia was born and raised in NC.  She is the daughter of a retired Marine SSGT and granddaughter of an Army Lt. Col.  Patricia’s husband is now a civil servant after serving several years in the Air Force.  They have two children, a boy and a girl. 

She has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Campbell University.  She is an administrative assistant for a local non-profit organization that assists groups in finding funding for natural resources projects, as well as community development projects. 

Patricia is also active in her church and community.  She writes grants for the Meals on Wheels program at her church and is on the School Improvement Team at Wrightsboro Elementary where her children attend.

If you have a scout, youth, school, or church project, please contact Patricia at lhcp.scouts@yahoo.com.

Krystal Alexander
Membership & COUPON COORDINATOR

Krystal lives and works in Washington State as a Care Giver/Advocate for the elderly.  She has worked for the local school district as a Para Professional on many levels including a stint as a High School Librarian.

As a military wife for over eight years, she has lived on several installations, and including two tours as a dependent to Korea; Krystal has a working knowledge of how difficult it can be for military members and their dependents. 

Contact Krystal at LHCP.InTheLoop@yahoo.com for more information about your membership after you join or any questions you may have as to how best help.

Susan Timberlake
contributions secretary

Susan works as an academic secretary at a liberal arts college outside of Richmond, Virginia.  She graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida in office administration and since moving to Virginia has worked at the college for almost twelve years. As the mother of eight (oldest son served in the Navy and youngest son is in the National Guard and is now serving in the Middle East.  She is a grandmother of thirteen (oldest now serving in the Army), she doesn’t have much free time.

She became involved with the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project in the beginning when Karen first started it, writing letters, etc. and though she doesn’t have much free time she does what she can as Contributions Secretary, and hopes to start doing some sewing soon.