‘Courage’ tourney helps vets get service animals

Photo courtesy of Courage on All Fronts  Marine Corps veteran David Merrill spends time with Recon, a dog trained to assist him with his post-traumatic stress disorder. Stuart’s Courage on All Fronts paid for Recon’s training.  Eagle Marsh Golf Club in Jensen Beach is hosting a tournament to benefit the local veterans-assistance organization.

Photo courtesy of Courage on All Fronts
Marine Corps veteran David Merrill spends time with Recon, a dog trained to assist him with his post-traumatic stress disorder. Stuart’s Courage on All Fronts paid for Recon’s training. Eagle Marsh Golf Club in Jensen Beach is hosting a tournament to benefit the local veterans-assistance organization.

Patrick McCallister
For Veteran Voice
Golfers will get veterans service animals on July 23. More accurately, on July 23 Eagle Marsh Gold Club in Jensen Beach will host a golf tournament to benefit Martin County’s Courage on All Fronts, a veterans assistance organization that, among other things, is getting veterans service animals.
The tourney started with Joey Maggio, special events coordinator at the club, calling Alicia Cheplick, president of the veterans-service organization.
“He said, ‘We’d like to do a golf tournament for you,’” Cheplick said.
Just like that. Out of the blue.
Maggio said the club did another tournament to help a veterans organization last year.
“We had spoke to some of the servicemen who were at the event,” Maggio said. “Two of them told me about a local organization called Courage on All Fronts.”
Maggio started doing some research and liked what he found. Alicia and her husband, Michael Cheplick, founded Courage on All Fronts a few years ago. Michael served in operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Among the organization’s ventures, it’s taking veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, on therapeutic adventures.

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