SDIA Deploying Disaster Response Team for Hurricane Laura Recovery
Overnight Hurricane Laura slammed into the Texas/Louisiana coasts with Cat 4 strength. The need for assistance in recovery is great, and Sheep Dog Impact Assistance (SDIA) is responding. SDIA will deploy a Disaster Response (DR) Team from Sunday, August 30, to Friday, September 4, to the Lake Charles, Louisiana, area to perform chainsaw operations, trees & debris removal, tarping roofs, and other assistance as needed.
The Northwest Arkansas DR Team, along with volunteers from other SDIA Teams and Chapters, will depart from the Center for Nonprofits at St. Mary’s at 10:00am on Sunday, August 30.
Those who are not high-risk for COVID-19 and are willing/able to deploy next week, may register to volunteer at this form.
While this is a challenging time for most Americans, SDIA would greatly appreciate the public joining their DR Team by making any financial donation possible. No donation is too small - and every bit will help SDIA assist those affected by Hurricane Laura and other...
Our Mission Continues with Northwest Arkansas Outdoor Adventures!
Throughout COVID-19 pandemic, the SDIA Northwest Arkansas Chapter has adapted, improvised and overcome many of the challenges presented by the guidance/mandates in place. While we have postponed our large-scale adventures to 2021, #OurMissionContinues! We have reformatted our Outdoor Adventures to include groups of 10 or fewer whenever possible, and press on to keep our Sheep Dogs off that couch. Since June, we have taken groups of Sheep Dogs in need on 2-day adventures to experience the thrill of off-roading with razors at Rush Springs Ranch and skydiving at Skydive Fayetteville, the fun & relaxation of water activities on Beaver Lake, rockcrawling at Byrd's Outdoor Center, and with the cooler weather, we've added indoor axe throwing, climbing and other activities. We ramped up our efforts to get and keep our Sheep Dogs moving, and the camaraderie, peer support and connection felt during these adventures is at an all time...
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 &...
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...