A Friend Raiser
Saturday, May 19th, 3-8pm
NTC Park at Liberty Station, San Diego CA.
Local Food & Beer, Live Music & Entertainment
Keynote Speakers:
Col. David Sutherland – Special Assistant to the Joint Chiefs – Family and Warrior Support
&
Lisa Cypers Kamen – noted PTS and Combat Trauma Support Specialist
Tickets: Pre-register $15 or $20 At the Door
Come Support the Troops
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Video From April San Onofre Event
Grind media put together a great video of last weeks San O camp. Great thanks to Verizon, Go Pro for their generous support of the Vets.
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Watch Operation Amped Receive Surfer Magazine’s Agent of Change Award
We’re proud to be awarded this prestigious honor.
Watch the awards show live webcast:
Go to http://www.surfermag.com/surfer-poll/ and click on “Live”. It will start at 9pm PST. The show will air on Time Warner Cable in Southern California at 10pm, and re-broadcast at some later day/time. Watch us represent!
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Surfer Magazine Names Operation Amped 2011 Agent of Change Award
High honors to be sure. A lot of time, effort, and energy goes into making our events awesome. Big thanks to all of our sponsors and volunteers!
Read more about it here.
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One More Pic
Joe and Cecilia Gabunilas Celebrating a Great Day
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More Fun With Unstoppable American Warriors
It's About to Get Really Fun
More inside from our free 3 day surf camp for wounded and injured veterans.
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Next Operation Amped Camp Sept 17, 2011 Huntington Beach
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Bolsa Chica State Beach, Huntington Beach
• Operation Amped (Operationamped.com) provides introductory surf instruction for severely wounded, ill, and injured veterans as a form of recreational therapy.
• Since 2006 our teams of volunteers have provided outstanding instruction and a great way for participants to learn the art and sport of surfing!
• Lunch and snacks included. No wetsuit required, we got ‘em for you! Boards and expert instructors provided by the Corky Carroll Surf School (surfschool.net) Families are welcome to attend!
• To sign up, or for more info, contact: Operation Amped: Doug May (maydoug@ymail.com or Bill Konegni (imabulldogg@yahoo.com)
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Billabong Stokes Out Wounded Vets Again and Again
For almost 6 years the surf company, Billabong, has been one of the biggest supporters of wounded veterans. Whenever we ask them for support, they over deliver, year in and year out. You want to borrow some wetsuits? Here’s some brand new ones, tags on and all. Tell the vets they can keep them if they promise to keep using them. Need to borrow a canopy? Here’s 2 of the highest quality. You’re going to be holding the event at Church’s? The bottoms might be pretty rocky. Here’s 25 pairs of booties for the vets too. You got enough drinks? Here’s 20 cases of monster, water, ice teas. How about some of our pro’s stopping by the camp to help out and sign autographs? Mike Parsons and Greg Long will be by to spread some stoke and, help in the water, and sign posters.
All without conditions. They don’t ask to hang banners, be mentioned in press releases or media mentions. In fact, they go out of the way to do it in the most low key way possible.
When you’re shopping for surf gear, you’ve got a lot of choices. Billabong’s gear is some of the finest made. If that’s not reason enough, why not choose the company that steps into the breach for our young veterans?
Thank you Billabong for Making this Surf Camp Possible
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The Indomitable Spirit of the Warrior
Stoke On The Water
Our Annual 3 Day Event gets better and better each year. Our wounded warriors are so freakin awesome to be around. They might be missing limbs, muscles, and nerve endings but not heart.
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Up Close & in the Water with the Warriors
Lots of great stuff coming soon. We had our best 3 day event ever this year. This clip is a small dollup of the awesome sauce we’ve got coming. This comes to us courtesy of Barry Ziehl and familia.
