Who We Are
Chairman
Boone Cutler
Boone Cutler is an author, columnist, music video director and Warfighter Rights leader. He holds the distinguished honor of being the first nationally recognized radio talk show personality who is also a combat veteran from the current war.
Chief Operations Officer
Steve Danyluk
Steve retired from the Marine Corps Reserves as a LtCol in 2014. His wife Valerie still serves on active duty in the Marine Corps in the National Capitol Region and was recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel. Steve has been involved with a number of Veteran charities, always as a volunteer, since 2007.
Secretary
Danny Prince
Danny Prince joined the FDNY in 1973 whose 36-year career included assignments at Ladder Company 156 in Midwood Brooklyn, where he served for 24 years, and Safety Battalion 2 and Safety Battalion 1 for 12 years. Before joining the fire department, Dan served in the U.S. Navy in 1967, then the US Coast Guard Reserves, culminating in a career spanning 39 years between each of the service branches.
Advisory Board
Aaron Clark
Firefighter for FDNY
Christine Clayburg
Christine Clayburg is an American television meteorologist who also has done some acting, directing and screenwriting. Christine served as a USAF loadmaster on the C-130 with multiple deployments and has a passion to lower the female veteran suicide rate which is currently 12x that of their civilian counterparts.
Chase Cormier
Chase was sworn in as a HPD officer in July 2006 and has 14 years of service with the police department. Chase is a US Army veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In July, 2020, Chase was seriously injured in a helicopter mishap while on a Search and Rescue mission in East Houston. Chase became the first injured first responder to take the Spartan Pledge while holding the newly forged Spartan Axe at an event in October, 2020.
Ben Hayhurst
Ben is a US Army Infantry Veteran and Purple Heart recipient. Ben was deployed to Sadr City Iraq with the 1st Cavalry Division for OIF2. These days, he lives on a small hobby farm in Washington with my family and make knives and blacksmith as a hobby.
Pete Meyer
Pete Meyer served USAF and into the NJANG from Jan 1982 - 1986 with boots on ground in Honduras Central America at Palmerola Air Base. Recently, Pete was elected to the title of Chairman Emeritus, International Transport Workers Union Veterans Committee where he advances many Veteran issues nationwide.
Laura Sellinger
Laura is a USAF OIF Vet/Veteran Advocate. She provides her own heartbreaking life experiences; and shares her knowledge to help others in providing new ways of thinking about philanthropy and giving to help create lasting social change around the world.