Passing the baton

After 15 continuous years of providing iBot and Track Chairs to Disabled Veterans and more recently First Responders (Firefighters, Paramedics, and Police Officers) while these needs still exist, Gary Lawson, a co-founder of and running Independence Corps alone now for the last several years has decided to pass the baton to two younger teams that have also been meeting these needs.

CW5 Gary Linfoot (USA, Ret.) a long-time member of the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (“Nightstalkers”), himself a mobility-challenged veteran after a crash of the helicopter he was piloting returning from a mission in Iraq, and his wife Mari founded https://www.americanmobilityproject.org/ Besides veterans and first responders the American Mobility Project also addresses the mobility needs of many young and some older civilians as well.

And Maj. Genl. Kevin Pottinger, USAF, Ret. and his wife Anne who after an illustrious military career as a pilot and a pilot for one of America’s flagship airlines, founded https://www.freedommobilityfoundation.org/ to also address the needs of our mility challenged veteran and first responder community.

Both the American Mobility Project and Freedom Mobility Foundation are two of the most excellent nonprofits in America, and should be your go-to nonprofit organizations to make donations to support the needs of our nation’s injured and ill mobility-challenged veterans and first responders and other citizens.

I have been blessed to know both the Linfoots and the Pottingers for more than a decade each, have worked with them on veteran and military family support missions for years, and would trust them with my soul.

I can give no higher praise.

God Bless America and those who stand guard and put their lives on the line every day to preserve and protect Americans and our allies around the world.

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iBots

Injured in the line of duty, shot by a drug dealer, Ft. Worth Texas Police Officer Lisa Ramsey received her new iBOT surrounded by an honor guard of Manchester NH Police Officers. Officer Ramsey’s iBot was paid for by donations to Independence Corps. Holding the check for us is iBOT inventor, Dean Kamen.

And retired Houston Police Officer Chase Cormier, both an Army Vet and injured as a HPO pilot in a helicopter crash

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/10/15/hpd-officer-injured-in-helicopter-crash-gets-mobility-back-thanks-to-gifted-wheelchair/?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

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In Memoriam

Our (Marcia and Gary) beloved older son, Seth David Lawson, Born Sept 19, 1978, Died too young, April 20, 2014.Seth stood behind our mission, volunteering countless hours and he helped design all of Huey 091’s communication and marketing materials. He scripted the iBOT Restart video voiced by our dear friend Gary Sinise. We will miss you son more than you could imagine. All of the work I continue to do, I dedicate to my wife and our two loving sons, Seth and Aaron. Gary Lawson, Co-Founder.

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