In partnership with the International Association of Firefighters, the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars "Sweats for Vets" has organized a National Awareness Cross-Country Run and Fundraiser.

The 3,000 mile cross-country run will start at Seattle Fire Department Station 5 on September 14th  at 0730 hours(Labor Day) and will end on November 15th at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. We will be running through the states of: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington D.C.

The goal of the event is to raise funds for the “Sweats for Vets” program. “Sweats for Vets” provides comfortable clothing for our men and women of the military when they are rehabilitating to give them some dignity while they are recuperating. When injured members of our military come back to the U.S. from over seas, they are sent to various military hospitals around the country for care and rehabilitation. While they are there they have only hospital gowns to wear until their personal belongings catch up to them from wherever they were stationed. Sometimes this is upwards of 2 months.