Laura Boone | Operation Ward 57Laura Boone – Head Volunteer

Laura Boone recently moved from North Carolina the Baltimore area to manage a shoe store in Towson, MD. With a love of rock music, photography and Patriotism, Laura thinks there is nothing better than visiting the patients on the ward and bringing a smile to the faces who were wounded protecting our freedoms. Laura is the heart of Operation Ward 57.

 

Katie FairmanKatie Fairman – Ward Volunteer

Katie is a volunteer with Operation Ward 57. She has been volunteering on the Ward for a little less than a year. After moving to DC and starting CrossFit, Katie began participating in a CrossFit fundraising campaign known as Fight Gone Bad. Each year, CrossFitters from across the nation band together to raise funds for charities. For three of those years, the Wounded Warrior Project was one of the recipients of the funds from this campaign.

After participating for the third year, Katie decided that she wanted to get involved with wounded warriors more than just once a year. Since August of 2010 Katie has been visiting the ward regularly and interacting with the patients and families. When she is not visiting the ward, Katie enjoys romantic walks on the beach, wine, chocolate, and educating the next generation of warriors.

Joseph Brown – Volunteer

Joseph Brown served 6 years in the United States Army. His roles was that as of a 52D (Power-Generation Equipment Repairer) and as a 19D (Calvary Scout). The last year and a half of Joseph Browns enlistment was spent in the Warrior Transition Battalion recovering from injuries sustained overseas in the conflict in Iraq. Even after his medical retirement from the military, Joseph Brown still continues to aid his brother in arms by visiting and aiding fellow wounded veterans.

Joseph Brown lives by the Warrior Ethos “I will Never leave a Fallen Comrade”

Dana Brown Ritter- Volunteer

Dana is a volunteer with Operation Ward 57. Dana first visited Walter Reed to see a comrade of her brother’s who was injured in combat. She immediately wanted to do whatever she could to help wounded warriors and their caregivers. Dana knows what it’s like to be a caregiver because her husband, Michael, is a quadriplegic. While he isn’t a wounded warrior, they face similar circumstances in their marriage. Dana is a TV news producer for a national network, and isbased out of Washington, DC.

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