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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Military leaders, including General Richard Cody, USA (Ret.), former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and Major General Gary J. Volesky, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell will join the leadership of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (IFHF) for a dedication ceremony of the new $11 million Intrepid Spirit Center Monday, September 8, 2014 from 11 a.m. to noon at Fort Campbell, KY.
The Intrepid Spirit staff began providing crucial treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and psychological health conditions to American military heroes stationed at or living near Fort Campbell in the center last month.
The program will include a special tribute to our wounded, ill and injured soldiers by country music artist Jamie Lee Thurston, as well as remarks by SGM Robert Haemmerle, who was treated at the first Intrepid Spirit Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for a traumatic brain injury he suffered as a result of a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan. Dr. Bret Logan, Director of Fort Campbell’s new Intrepid Spirit Center and Arnold Fisher, Honorary Chairman of Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund are also expected to speak.
Fort Campbell’s Intrepid Spirit Center is the third in a series of nine planned centers to open nationwide, funded and built by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund through a $100 million public fundraising campaign. To date, Centers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina are open and operating, and have treated 2,000 service members. Two additional centers are currently under construction at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Hood, Texas. Each is gifted to the Department of Defense upon completion.