Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10 a.m.

The Enclave Apartments/Operation Homefront Village, 11225 Oak Leaf Drive, Silver Spring, MD

County Executive Isiah Leggett will welcome recuperating veterans and top military officials to the grand opening of the new Operation Homefront Village-DC, a cluster of rent-free and fully furnished apartments designed to provide short-term housing for wounded soldiers while they receive services at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. In addition to housing, services include on-site counselors to assist with filing benefit claims and educational assistance such as college enrollment.

Operation Homefront Village has two sites in the United States, the other one is in San Antonio, Texas adjacent to the Brooke Army Medical Center. Joining Leggett will be:

Gordon Mansfield, deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Allison Barber, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Vice Admiral John Cotton, Chief of Naval Reserve
CSM David Ray Hudson, Army National Guard Bureau
Bill Hansen, vice president of Government Relations, Lockheed Martin
Pat Rainey, Military Segment Executive, Bank of America
Bob Waffle, vice president, BAE Systems

Other attendees:

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (tentative)
Rep. Nancy Boyda
Dr. Lynda Davis, Deputy Secretary of the Navy
RADM Michael Miller, chief of Navy Legislative Affairs
RADM Cindy Dullea, deputy commander, Navy Medicine, National Capital Area
Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Walters

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