8555-R2_MSA_November2023_Newsletter

A Better Quality of Life...

Our Mission: We are Heroes, Helping Heroes. We Serve to END Veteran and First Responder Suicide

A bout AOATG: An Officer and Two Gentlemen (AOATG) was created on Novem ber 10 th 2021, and is a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was created inre sponse to what is equal

After a year of just 9Veterans and First Responders, our second year was going to be bigger and I knew that we needed to build a self-sustainableprogram so that we could have a longer season, so that we could reintegrate more of our heroes, and so that it could continue on forthe foreseeable future. So, I decided to build a dealership powered by the nonprofit to fund our nonprofit. Something that has neverbeen done before. Fast forward to today our organization has served over 70 Veterans and First Respond ers through an accumulative2,000 miles on the snow-covered trails in and around the White Mountains. We now have a fleet

to a pandemic in the Veteran and First Responder communities. All too often a Veteran or First Responder will incur Traumas based upon andwithin their Service to our Grateful Nation, and all too often do these heroes end their lives because when they return home, they realize that they aren’t the same and don’ttruly fit in anymore. Though AOATG wasn’t officially formed until 2021 it was upon my return in 2019 from a deployment that dras tically changed my life, that led to theidea, and the organization that we are today. There was only a few things that gave me life when I came home, and among those things were activities that kept me busy likebuilding and woodworking, cooking, and my love for powersports. Shortly after my homecoming I secluded, and I built, cooked, and got on my Motorcycle or Snowmobile asmuch as I could. At the beginning An Officer and Two Gentle men was nearly just an inuendo, it was a way to represent the pain and anguish I was suffering. AOATG wasborn as without even the thought of what we are today, but when I was looking for how I could help I realized I was doing it all along, so on November 10th 2021 just hoursbefore Veterans Day I filed the appropriate paper work to be formed in the state of Massachusetts as a nonprofit all on my own. The initial website was also createdovernight, and I publicly displayed it for the first time on a day none the less sup porting our nations Veterans. Just days after I would meet one of my now volunteers and one of my best friends Mike Elkin at the

of our own snowmobiles and grew the one-of-a- kind deal ership from just 1 brand to over 8 andhave raised over $30,000.00. This year alone we have grown in excess of 500% in business termsboth in the dealership and our programs that save lives. We say our proving measures are thesmiles that we create, and that’s what it’s all about reintegrating our heroes with

society, givingthem a new sense of camaraderie, and allowing for a betterment of their quality of life. It isextremely important for us to do the work we are doing, and I personally feel that in order to reintegrate our nations heroes into society that we also need to reintegrate society with our heroes. We educate the pub lic throughour dealership and our newest program which we call the experience, which allows civillians the chance to be a part of ourprograms. They get the same gear and stay in our lodge, with Guided Snowmobile tours from our esteemed guide staff, and evensnowmobiles if you need one. All at a better cost than you would get anywhere else that offered Lodging, gear rental, Snow mobilerental, meals, and to top it off a guided tour. The program allows us to reintegrate society with our heroes that much more, so thatyou can understand them and vice-versa. Equally it allows us to help fund our expensive lodging, and it doesn’t get any bet ter thanthat. So shop AOATG for your powersports needs as we are your 100% Nonprofit Dealership, and don’t forget to follow us on socialmedia, to see all of what we continue to do.

Sled Mass Expo in Spring field MA. I was just pitching the idea to Mike, and all my thoughts,and he just shook his head and said that’s a fan tastic idea, but he didn’t even know that this idea literally just began. Mike was all the proof I needed that what I was about to do was import ant, and it needed to work, so that we could save lives.

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