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Our Mission
RETREAD (noun)- A person who was in the military who returns, or is recalled to duty, in order to perform additional services
Many veterans and public servants who have been removed from duty due to their injuries, experience a sense of guilt that their mission was never completed. A large percentage feel the absence from their old units has left them battle buddies exposed with no one to cover their six. Many suffer from a diminished sense of worth, and even Survivor's Guilt. Suicide and substance abuse plague these warriors as they strive to come to terms with their new lives.
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Operation Retread exists to provide an adaptive therapeutic diving program to military veterans and public servants who have received a significant life altering injury in the line of duty, and to provide them a new mission of service through leading and mentoring fellow divers.
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ABOUT US
OPERATION RETREAD is a Non Profit Organization (501(c)3), offering an adaptive diving program to disabled veterans and public servants in one of the most pristine diving locations on the Caribbean's Meso-American Reef.
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We're a group of Vets that share a feeling of never having completed our mission.
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We had been looking for a way to serve our brothers and sisters in uniform and, being divers ourselves, we decided to open a dive resort built around an adaptive dive program that would allow veterans and public servants, with service related disabilities, to support, mentor, and instruct other divers.
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We are making this much more than just a boutique dive resort. It has become our path to completing a mission, and can become yours as well.
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We intend for this to be a place where our visitors can get in some great diving, have fun, develop lifelong friendships and again be part of a team.
Come Join Us!
Take a Look
The photos our gallery are both originals and stock photos pulled from the web. We will have more original content as it becomes available.
Resort
We are currently raising funds to purchase a resort through our parent company Integrated Diving Concepts Inc.
Click the link here to donate, and check back for progress
Scuba Diving
Some of the best diving in the world is found right off our front porch on the Meso-American Reef, the World's most biologically diverse coral reef system.
Check out our gallery.
Lessons
We have a cadre of instructors that are teaching, and networking with other veteran adaptive diving programs, to ensure all of our divers enter the program with, at least, the PADI Basic Open Water rating.
For those choosing to take up the mission, Advanced Open Water thru Dive Master training will be offered both at the resort and in the States
Our Adaptive Diving gear
Check back to see a list of specialized adaptive gear that we employ to create the safest possible dives for our visitors
Please help the mission
Your donations and patronage will help us to acquire the site, (FOB Retread), and gear required to service a dive community that includes divers of all skill levels and abilities, as well as help defray the cost of travel and lodging for many of our disabled divers and visitors.
Our organization relies heavily on the generosity and involvement of people like you, with every contribution going towards making OPERATION RETREAD an even better Non-Profit Organization than it already is.
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Please support our efforts any way you can, all contributions are appreciated. Every donation, regardless of size, helps.
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If you can't help financially, please consider helping our gofundme campaign go viral by spreading the word.
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And feel free to contact us for more specifics about getting involved.
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Semper Fi!
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