Your Gifts In Action
The Legion Fund exists solely to support the 5th Group community.
“The Legion Fund has been an extraordinary game-changer in our ability to care for the Soldiers and Families of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne).
For a unit that has been in continuous combat for 19 years, going above and beyond for its members is always the goal.
The Legion Fund continues to be a critical component of caring for those who have committed their lives to caring for us, and in protecting our nation. Since its inception, The Legion Fund has always answered the call. Always.”
– Brig Gen(Retired) Scott Brower, former Commanding Officer, 5th SFG(A)
Legion Fund monies were used to assist a 5th Group Soldier’s wife who miscarried while her husband was deployed in a war zone.
A 5th Group Soldier (name withheld for security reasons) deployed in a combat zone learned his wife had miscarried and that he would be unable to get home for several days due to the complexity of travel in a hazardous war zone.
Although she was not in medical danger, the concern was for his wife’s state of grief and their other two children.
Quick intervention and funding allowed the wife’s mother and sister to travel from Oregon to the Fort Campbell area within 48 hours.
(As a side note, it took the Soldier 10 days to arrive home to his family due to his remote location and the complexity of transport.)
A Gold Star father of a 5th Group Soldier is provided a wheelchair.
Through SFA Chapter 38, Legion Fund monies were used to provide emergency support to the elderly father – a Russian immigrant alone in a nursing home – whose 5th Group Soldier and son had been killed in action in Iraq in 2014.
Mr. Yuri is a Russian immigrant of limited means who lives alone in a community nursing home in New Jersey.
Vivid proof that 5th Group looks after its Gold Star families forever:
When neither Mr. Yuri nor his healthcare provider was able to afford a much-needed motorized wheelchair, we were there to help.
After careful research, and in close consultation with the health care provider, Mr. Yuri’s new wheelchair arrived within 10 days.
A 5th Group wife received childcare assistance after she was injured and needed help caring for her special needs child.
A 5th Group Soldier (name withheld for security reasons) is married with two kids, one of whom has special needs requiring him to wear a safety helmet while his cranium develops.
The issue arose when his mother stumbled going down their porch stairs and broke her lower left leg, resulting in surgery with multiple screws.
Her lack of mobility made it impossible to keep up with the child with special needs.
The Army does have a system to provide in-home child care in such but the red tape is difficult and hardly timely.
Legion Fund monies, with the coordination of Chapter 38, solved the problem until the Army was finally able to help.
This 5th Group Green Beret, along with his wife and young son, were able to swim with sharks just months before he died of cancer.
SFC Mark was a weapons sergeant with 5SFG(A) when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in February 2015. The Army paid for his treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
His wife Sarah could not afford to travel with him. Legion Fund monies were used to cover his wife’s travel expenses.
We also made it possible for Mark, Sarah, and their young son to attend a recreational therapy event—”Swimming with Sharks”—in Atlanta.
Barely four months later, Mark passed away.
18-year-old daughter of 5th Group Green Beret needs cancer treatment at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis
Legion Fund monies were used to provide lodging, travel and food on multiple trips to St. Jude for an anxious family with limited resources.
