Specialties
Still Serving Veterans serves and honors Veterans and their families, transitioning servicemembers, and members of the Guard and Reserves by assisting them in securing meaningful employment and the Veteran benefits they have earned. All services are provided at no charge.
Still Serving Veterans is a Call of Duty Endowment Seal of Distinction recipient, and was the 2015 Nonprofit of the Year for both Huntsville/Madison County and for the City of Madison. In 2014 SSV was awarded the BBB Torch Award for Ethics.
History
Established in 2006.
In 2005, 3 US Military Academy classmates were praying for Will's son David and his Army colleagues who were deployed to Iraq, including David's friend and fellow platoon leader, Scott Smiley, who was critically injured by an IED.
Will went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to see Scotty, and later found out that Major General Jim and Becky Pillsbury had been to WRAMC to comfort wounded warriors as well. They all compared notes about "doing something to help Scott Smiley and other wounded warriors like him"...and thus, Still Serving Veterans (SSV) was born.
SSV was completely functional by 2007 and aimed to help Wounded Veterans in the post 9/11 era. However, soon the founders of SSV realized there was another Veteran crisis rearing its ugly head: unemployment and access to services. Thus, SSV adapted to fit the need and has since grown to help all Veterans and their family members find meaningful new careers, obtain their VA benefits, and receive any other services they may need.
Meet the Business Owner: Will W.
Raised in a military family, Will was an Eagle Scout who earned a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in General engineering and later earned a MBA from Harvard Business School. A career Army officer, he served in ground and air cavalry units in Colorado, California, Hawaii, Korea, Panama and Germany, and commanded an aviation brigade in Germany, Bosnia and Hungary.
Will's political-military assignments included White House Fellow in the Executive Office of President Reagan, Senior Military Fellow at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Legislative Fellow and Congressional Staff Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, Associate Professor of Management at the U.S. Military Academy, and Legislative Director for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Will currently serves as President of Still Serving Veterans (SSV).