Mission Statement
Mission Healing Soldiers is a grass roots organization that will procure or lease four L39 Jets, with custom artwork, to travel the US, flying as over high profile events raising awareness for PTSD . Mission Healing Soldiers will build a foundation with donations, investing in research and treatment organizations specializing in PTSD.
About
Mission Healing Soldiers
Mission Healing Soldiers was conceived by Barrett Billota from and earlier project that brought POW/MIAs from the shadows. He worked with Congressional leaders, the Pentagon and Senior US Military leaders to bring public awareness of missing soldiers and its affect on families. An L29 jet was leased and painted with the POW/MIA insignia and the jet began its mission to fly over high profile events to raise awareness. (see L29 Project page)
Today there are approximately 3.7 million veterans that have some degree of PTSD according to the Veterans administration. There are very few resources available for treatment for our veterans. Mission Healing Soldiers, with the help of its sponsors and benefactors, will create broad PTSD awareness through a program of public outreach. This mission has been designed in four phases.
Phase one will begin with the creation website and a moving memorial in the form of a 1/4 scale L39 trainer jet. The Model will which bears be wrapped with custom artwork such as the image to the right. This memorial model will travel to various airshow events, corporate and sporting events, generating broad awareness military veteran PTSD needs and the Mission Healing Soldiers initiative.
Phase two of the project will utilize donations and sponsorships, to purchase or lease four L39 Jets. The jet will be retrofitted and painted with the artwork and flown over public events. These events include airshows, sporting venues and military event. This flying memorial will also be on display for public to see. Our financial goal of $3 million dollars, held in escrow, is needed ready the aircraft to fly its first missions. The memorial jet will be self funded through ongoing donations and sponsorships. Once we reach a sustainable level, the interest accrued from the principal will be used to fund the ongoing operational needs.
As the Mission continues to grow and the finances in phase two stabilize, residual funds will be escrowed into a second foundation. The interest from this second foundation, will eventually be paid out to organizations that have shown success in the research and treatment of PTSD. They will have demonstrated how their organization provides wellness support for Veterans and/or their families. The Mission Healing Soldiers board of directors will decide annually, which organizations can provide the best available treatment and should receive monetary support.
This Mission relies on the generous contributions of our sponsors and patrons. Your donations will help generate awareness for the organizations that treat PTSD. Our long range goal is to Provide a financial boost to reputable organizations treating PTSD, which will help to ease the suffering of 3.7 million military Veterans.
Light Art - L39 Albatross
OUR TEAM
The Mission Healing Soldiers team is comprised business leaders, active military and veterans who share a passion for enhancing veteran needs.
Barrett Bilotta
Founder/Chairman
Barrett J. Bilotta holds a M.T.S in theology from Harvard Divinity School, where he was a teaching fellow and faculty appointed media coordinator. Prior to his time at Harvard, he did a one-year mass communications program at MIT. Additionally, he also holds a B.A. in philosophy. Barrett is a member of the Blue Angels Association, an honor for his past work on raising awareness for Vietnam POWs and missing in action service members through the Criss Cross America program with Capt. Red McDaniel. As the part of Criss Cross America program an L29 aircraft was down at airshows throughout the country.
Barrett also has been accepted into the Professional Membership of The United States Army Chaplain Corps Regimental Association. He is also a long time member of the Blue Angels Association, The Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, The Center for Spirituality Theology and Health, Duke University, and Orthomolecular.
His wife Margret Keller Bilotta Holds a BA From Ohio University as a Child Therapist and is a Certified Chaplain at the Boston Childrens Hospital.
Today, Barrett is creating a new non-profit, Mission Healing Soldiers, to raise awareness of PTSD in veterans. Currently, Mission Healing Soldiers is raising money to purchase a T38 aircraft to perform at airshows to raise funds for veterans dealing with the burden of PTSD.
Finally, over the course of his career, Barrett was a serial entrepreneur, founding
several companies within the media, communication, and cellular space. Barrett also participates in the Veterans Administration National Center For PTSD Consultation Program.
Peggy Bilotta
Advisor
Margaret E. Keller – born and raised in a small town of Logan Ohio, went to Ohio University graduating with a B.S. in education. Post graduation she relocated to the New England area where she met her husband Barrett J. Bilotta and then attended Goddard College where she graduated with an M.A. in Child Psychology. She spent several years as an elementary school teacher but then began to focus her work on hospitalized children with chronic illness. At Children’s Hospital Boston she was the Children’s Activities Specialist for over a decade helping to plan, organize, and supervise therapeutic play and activities for patients of the hospital including chronically ill children in the isolation unit.
After being a stay-at-home mom for several years, raising her son, she had the calling to convert to Catholicism after being raised Lutheran and took a keen interest in hospital chaplaincy. Over the course of four years, Margaret completed the educational courses and training to become a certified Catholic Chaplain, including residency training programs at Emerson Hospital, Beverly Hospital Psychiatric Unit, and Saints Memorial Medical Center. She then went on to be a Chaplain at Saints Memorial Medical Center for five years. As a Chaplain at Saints Memorial, she dealt with patients and their families receiving all elements of care in the hospital including intensive care, emergency room, and surgical.
Eventually, her passion for the chaplaincy lead her back to Children’s Hospital Boston as Margaret always was focused on helping Children, especially those most in need. For the next ten years she was one of the resident Catholic Chaplains at Children’s Hospital Boston, dealing with some of the most difficult situations for the patient children and their families.
Margaret retired from Boston Children’s Hospital with twenty years of service, and she now enjoys going on nature walks, being with her friends and spending time with her three granddaughters.
Barrett Bilotta, Jr.
VP, Treasurer
Barrett Jr. is the President, CEO and Co-founder of Agilitas Energy. In addition, he is a co-founder of Madbury Capital, the private equity affiliate of Agilitas Energy. He also serves of the board of directors and is a member of the investment committee.
Barrett leads the overall strategy of Agitas Energy and oversees all functional business units, including development, EPC, asset management and operations, with a focus on deal structuring, project development, finance and general management.
Barrett graduated from the University of New Hampshire and the Tuck School of Management at Dartmouth College. He retired as a Captain from the U.S. Army National Guard
Dan LeBlanc
Operations, Marketing & Creative
Dan LeBlanc holds a BS in Industrial Management from University of Massachusetts, Lowell and holds a certificate in Applied Project Management from Boston University. His work career began in manufacturing procurement & planning and engineering. He later moved into real estate, software sales and marketing. Dan has a long history working with non-profits as a champion for change and an advocate for volunteerism.
Currently Dan operates several businesses including home renovation, video production and website development and marketing.
Dan is working with Barrett to develop Mission Healing Soldiers, creating this website, developing custom content, organizing subcontractors and fabrication.
Lt. Colonel Taylor McMaster
Advisor
Lieutenant Colonel Taylor McMaster is an Army Special Forces Officer who currently serves in the Army National Guard. He previously served on active duty for 10 years in a variety of positions including platoon leader and executive officer at 2d Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, and detachment commander at 1st Special Forces Group in Okinawa, Japan. He has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and has worked in many other countries in East Asia.
On the civilian side, Taylor is the Managing Partner at Madbury Real Estate Ventures, a boutique real estate development company. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Taylor is married, has four children, and resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Brandon LaBelle
Advisor
Brandon is a logistics officer in the Army National Guard. He deployed to the Middle East with a convoy security platoon in 2010. Following his 2010 deployment he led a distribution company from 2014-2017. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree in Information Systems and Business Analytics from the University of New Hampshire.
Rich Brown
Advisor
Rich is an Army Special Forces Ocer assigned to the Army National Guard. Prior to his branch transition to Special Forces, he deployed to Afghanistan as an Infantry officer in 2010. Rich completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in 2013 and
was assigned as a Special Forces Detachment Commander where he deployed to Afghanistan again in 2016. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.
Phil Mehall
Advisor
Phil is a Business Lawyer and Advisor based in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He assists and advises businesses and entrepreneurs from start-up through growth and exit phases of the business cycle for more than 20 years. His specialties include organizational and management structures, debt and equity financing, technology licensing, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, business succession planning and a wide range of commercial contract matters.
Phil was a principal and director in the Boston law firm of Powers & Hall, P.C. before founding Mehall Law.
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