Gabriel and Stephanie Charron
Cell: 704.200.7522
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I am writing this in order to introduce the aims and methods of my wife Stephanie. She runs this website, which focuses on military/law enforcement resources and aid for our veterans. She can be a bit enthusiastic in her initial approach, so as a favor I am condensing her thoughts and actions into this primer on what she is about.

Stephanie is a ferocious, undaunted crusader for the proper treatment of veterans of the US military. Her efforts in any given day to bring recognition and deserved benefits to these men and women are prolific; not to take credit from other hardworking and excellent veteran advocates, but I have yet to meet someone who can compare to the dynamo that is my wife.

She is not officially affiliated with any active duty or veteran organization, yet works with, and liaisons between, as many of them as can be found. All she asks is the opportunity to help you in your efforts in any way that a concerned, patriotic citizen is able to. If, in the course of your work, she shows up with briefcase in hand, please do not dismiss her as a "clueless civvy", but instead give her the chance to assist.

Stephanie has many aid plans in various stages of completion. Some already in motion, with personnel and resources allocated, some still brewing in her head. She is fantastic at recycling-if a program, group or resource exists, she will find a way to adapt it to the cause of aiding our warriors. In military terms, she is a "hard charger", a motivated, results minded go-getter.

I will now list the more salient points of her "A-list" projects.

"The Shady Shaman"

A sailboat that was found for sale when she was leaving the WW barracks just the other day and took a wrong turn, ending up at the Gottschalk marina. The Marine that owns it is leaving soon, and selling it for a good price. We are buying it, and she plans on learning to sail, partially living in it, and most importantly, taking our warriors on sailing trips to fish, sight-see, or just plain relax on the open water. She will coordinate with the necessary USMC authorities to plan the outings and ensure all paperwork and scheduling is shipshape (pun intended).

Opportunity for housing

Stephanie believes that everyone should have the opportunity of living in decent housing. Certain conditions exist which leave some separating service members literally "out in the cold".

A hypothetical example is the Marine who is single, leaving service, has no real family connections where he came from, and is disabled not to the point where he will be looked after in a constant fashion by agencies like the VA, but disabled enough to make it very difficult to find gainful employment. For married personnel, it is quite a bit easier.

Stephanie's proposal is to find, renovate or build housing and to make it available to veterans who are no longer active and are thus not qualified for government housing, and require assistance. She has a specific focus on the single veterans with little or no family ties and is lobbying for the ability for two or more single service members to live together and gain the benefits that married personnel have, regardless of gender. This would include BAH and ComRats for active duty members who cannot live in the WW barracks due to lack of space, or tax benefits for separated members sharing a residence.

Her goal is to ensure that service member always has a place to live. To this end she is communicating with real estate agencies, homebuilders, service personnel, and nonprofit organizations and trying to mesh together their capabilities to achieve the goal of available housing.

Training/rehabilitation center

Stephanie's father owns a property near the heart of Charlotte, NC. She has cajoled and wheedled him into the potential use of the land (which is mostly cleared and has no permanent buildings) as a site to build a combination schoolhouse/rehabilitation center where service members would be given front of the line, free training in such diverse disciplines as law enforcement and fire/rescue techniques, computer repair/network administration, construction trade knowledge, and whatever can be taught to give them a leg up on succeeding after their tour of duty. They would also be housed on the property.

Details are still in the works for this. Stephanie is researching zoning laws and various other land use ordinances, and communicating with government officials, service personnel, and prospective teachers of all types.

These are pretty much the big three of the projects she is putting effort into at the current time. As mentioned above, she is a constant, tireless advocate and regularly brainstorms to think of new ways to help. She puts her heart, soul, and backbone into helping where many give only lip service. Hopefully you can help her help others.

*I may seem overly effusive or flowery with my praise, and I admit a bias because I am writing about my wife, but I pledge that this is an objective summation of her drive to help in any way.

Yours in service,
Gabriel

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