Date: January 22, 2024 Operation Healing Forces (OHF) announces its new partnership with HatchPath, an innovative personal wellness platform providing transformative experiences aimed at helping individuals unlock their full potential and achieve a balanced and fulfilling life. OHF is committed to serving the needs of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community and providing meaningful, effective, […]
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Kerry Irvin, Operation Healing Forces’ CEO honored as The Tampa Bay Lightning Community Hero!
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Gone Surfin’ – Andrew & Jessica Hoppe
Over the course of Andrew and Jessica Hoppe’s 13-year marriage, the couple has endured a demanding, fast-paced Special Operations Forces’ lifestyle that’s included numerous transfers and frequent separations due to Andrew’s many deployments and trainings. So, when all of the stars seemed to align for an escape to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, for an Operation […]
Finding Purpose In The Pause – Katie Calvillo
When Katie Calvillo of Florida set off for an Operation Healing Forces Spouse’s Retreat in Georgetown, SC, she was apprehensive. While she’d participated in a couples retreat with her husband Al, an Army major, she would go on her own this time. She wondered if it would be an awkward week of polite exchanges with […]
Hanging Loose – Alex & Jenny Holt
Alex Holt of Washington wasn’t thinking about himself when he heard about the Operation Healing Forces Couples Retreats. As a Battalion Command Sergeant Major in the Army’s Special Forces, he wondered how he could make the program accessible to his frequently deployed soldiers and their partners. When an opening came up for Alex and his […]
Alex Valdes – Donor Spotlight
Sharing her time and expertise to help Special Operations Forces couples plan for retirement isone way Alex Valdes gives back to the military community. “Everybody has their different specialities. I speak the financial language, so that’s what I can share. They’re keeping our nation safe, and I’m helping them plan for their retirement,” says Valdes, […]
Time Well Spent – Brendan and Wendy DeLigio
As an E-9 Pararescueman in the U.S. Air Force, Brendan DeLigio of Pinehurst, North Carolina is a true frequent flyer. But while his 23-year Special Operations career requires regular travel, Brendan and his wife of 22 years, Wendy, rarely have the chance to travel together. Until this April, neither one had ever visited Big Sky, […]
Home Front – The Vanderpool Family
For Josh Vanderpool, a critical skills operator with the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC), 2021 has been full of surprises. In March, he returned from a six month deployment in the Philippians, just in time to prepare for another adventure. In April, Josh and his wife Brianna attended a restorative OHF retreat […]
Building Bonds – Charles and Christy Wentzell
Chuck Wentzell, a longtime Special Operator with the Army, never expected to meet his spouse during a deployment. After joining the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Chuck deployed five times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Inherent Resolve. During one of those deployments in 2011, he connected with Christy, a […]
Pro Bono Program Serving Special Operations Service Members
The below article is reprinted with permission of the Virginia State Bar. Over the past two decades, no military community has borne a greater burden fighting our nation’s battles than Special Operations Forces (SOF). Operating in over 76 countries on any given day, SOF are tasked with carrying out the military’s most secretive, specialized, and […]