Devil Dogs of Moss Creek Support Service Dogs for PTSD

A lot of fight left in the old Devil Dogs of Moss Creek
The State
BY DAVID LAUDERDALE
October 4, 2014

Marines never quit.

Paws4Vets works with the Marine Wounded Warrior Battalion-East based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., which identifies the Marines in need. So far, the Moss Creek Marines have helped five Marines raise the $10,000 they need to “pay it forward” with Paws4Vets to get a dog.

Not even when they’re 92 years old, clinging to their golden years in a Beaufort County gated community.

The Moss Creek Marines are about 30 strong. The youngsters in the group are in their 70s.

“We look like ‘The Spirit of ‘76,’ ” said commanding officer Fred Will.

But since forming in 2007, they have raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for Marines.

With the buildup of the war on terror in the Middle East, the old veterans with no staff and no overhead launched what they called Operation Adopt a Deployed Marine Combat Unit.

Over the next six years, they adopted 76 units totaling more than 34,500 Marines and Navy corpsmen.

They shipped them combat boot socks, personal hygiene items, 50 large coffee urns to heat water for shaving, enough Baby Wipes to cover a small state, and more than 25,000 pillows purchased through the Pillows for Patriots program and Harris Pillow Supply in Beaufort.

In short, they sent whatever was on the wish list of Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Now those troops have come marching home.
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