Hospitalized troops staying busy

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Staff Sgt. Josh Everett, left, a soldier with the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, starts work on a model tank Wednesday at the Help Hospitalized Veterans craft room atn Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.


Hospitalized troops staying busy
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 23, 2008

LANDSTUHL, Germany — Work on this tank came easier to Army Staff Sgt. Josh Everett.

"It usually takes four people to lift this," Everett said as he snapped together a bogey wheel. "I can do it with one hand."

Everett, a tanker with the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment who was injured in Iraq, is an outpatient recovering at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. He was working on a plastic model of an Abrams tank Wednesday at the Help Hospitalized Veterans craft room.

Located inside one of two barracks housing the hospital’s Medical Transient Detachment, the craft room is filled with military and automotive models, leather kits and a variety of other craft kits — all donated through Help Hospitalized Veterans. The craft room at Landstuhl distributes about 500 to 600 kits a month.

Help Hospitalized Veterans is a charitable, nonprofit organization founded in 1971 by Army veteran Roger Chapin. It has distributed more than 23 million craft kits.



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