2017 Accomplishments
2017 Accomplishments (Calendar Year)
Because of your support, 2017 was an incredible year of disaster response missions and opportunities to help our fellow Sheep Dogs in need get off the couch and reengaged in living life.
Here's how YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of the nearly 3,500 people we assisted in 2017.
DISASTER RESPONSE MISSIONS – 425 Members and Volunteers deployed on 4 different major disaster response missions to Texas (hurricane), Florida (hurricane), Michigan (flooding) and Puerto Rico (hurricane) assisting 2,570 people and clearing 224 properties of trees & debris. Our WA Team also distributed water and sports drinks to fire fighters battling wild fires in Washington state, bringing total water distributed to 2,817 cases, and 1,950 pounds of food and supplies delivered to those devastated by natural disasters.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURES – SDIA sponsored 187 Sheep Dogs in Need to participate in 18 Outdoor Adventures, including hunting, skydiving, fishing, obstacle races and our national trip to Washington DC &...
Christmas Outreach
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Christmas Outreach is our annual program to adopt the children of any military, law enforcement, fire & rescue or EMS family that needs assistance during the holiday season. Our goal this year is to build on previous years’ successes by providing 70 children with Christmas toys and clothing.
Our greatest need is identifying Sheep Dog families with children that need our assistance. If you know of a worthy Sheep Dog family, please contact us as soon as possible. Each child adopted will receive three toys from their “Santa wish list”, clothing, shoes and other miscellaneous items to brighten the child’s Christmas!
Thanksgiving Outreach
Project Giving is our annual Thanksgiving program to provide meals to military, law enforcement, fire & rescue or EMS families needing assistance during the holiday season. Our goal this year is to increase the number of families we can support, providing 45 families with a traditional family Thanksgiving meal.
Our greatest challenge is identifying Sheep Dog families that need our assistance. If you know of a worthy Sheep Dog family, please contact us as soon as possible. Families will receive a whole Turkey, Ham and all the trimmings, including 2 pies, corn, green beans, stuffing, potatoes, and much more!
ARTICLE: SEAL Team 6 by Robert Johnson
This article originally appeared in Business Insider on May 2, 2011. Sheep Dogs of the purest form, a group of men living “normal” lives, while training and always at the ready for when their nation calls. Men with the confidence to know their strength’s, without the need to brag about it. Proud, brave men, Sheep Dogs all of them.By Robert JohnsonThe military team that killed Osama Bin Laden is an elite special forces group unofficially called Seal Team 6.Officially, the team’s name is classified and not available to the public, technically there is no team 6. A Tier-One counter-terrorism force similar to the Army’s elusive Delta group, Team 6’s mission rarely make it to paper much less the newspaper.It shows how important the publicity about Bin Laden’s killing is to the U.S. that Team 6 has continued to be front-page news.The members of Team 6 are all “black” operatives. They exist outside military protocol, engage in operations that are at...
Christmas Outreach 2012
Christmas Outreach is our annual program to adopt the children of any military, law enforcement, fire & rescue or EMS family that needs assistance during the holiday season.
This years Christmas Outreach was a great success…we were able to provide gifts to more than 160 children of Sheep Dog families in need.
Navy SEAL – Chris Kyle
Meet Navy SEAL Chris Kyle… the deadliest sniper in US history, with 255 kills. For some of you this article might be hard to read…too many people struggle with violence and the ability to see the need for it. Unfortunately, for our country’s Sheep Dogs, violence is sometimes a necessity. Killing or doing harm to others in an attempt to save a fellow Sheep Dogs life, or in defense of our country and its peoples way of life, violence is sometimes the only option. Hopefully in reading this article you will see the lives Chris Kyle was able to save, versus the lives he had to take. There are people out there that would love an opportunity to kill you and your family if given the chance, Sheep Dogs like Chris serve everyday in an effort to protect you and yours from those people. Never forget! Contributed by the Daily News & Michael Zennie Chris Kyle hesitated the first time he killed a...
“Non-traditional” Sheep Dog!
Heroic Mailman Saves 3 Lives While on the Job Published July 20, 2010 | Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — Keith McVey is no ordinary mailman. He finished his afternoon deliveries, betraying no sign that anything out of the ordinary had occurred save for the blood on his uniform and the cut on his lip. Back at the post office, he was greeted with cries of disbelief: “Did you hear? Keith saved another life today.” McVey now can’t walk down the street without being honked at by passing cars filled with admirers — or, apparently, without saving a life. “He’s a rock star in our eyes,” says Tina Starosto, a receptionist at King Apartments, where a sign declaring “Keith Our Hero” is on the office wall. Over the years, McVey, 53, has helped saved three people while on his mail route, earning a reputation as the plainclothes superhero. Last week, he threw aside his bundle of mail to perform CPR on an unconscious man on the side...