Leta Carruth Medical Expenses

This fundraiser is to help with the medical expenses for cancer treatment for Leta Carruth. She was diagnosed earlier this year, has undergone surgery, and will now start with chemotherapy. Although she has insurance, her co-pays and time away from work have left her with some hefty medical debt with more debt on the horizon.  Anyone who knows Leta knows that she hates to ask for help. She is always the giver. From helping families through deployments, organizing events to support veterans, and being the shoulder to lean on for countless Soldiers, Leta is always there. She has dedicated her life to the service of others and truly embodies the value of Selfless Service.  Leta has made it her calling to help others and truly deserves all of the support that we can give.  Any donation would be very much appreciated.

From Rob:  

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*LETA CARRUTH.*

The legendary Leta. The most self-less serving human being that I've ever met. She has been supporting the 2-503rd for almost 2 decades just to my knowledge.

She has been one of our very best friends and a pillar of support forever.

Leta raised the funds to support our Rock Ball when we got back from OEF VIII. She's raised money and physically supported our Battalion in the Boston Tough Rucks, Rock Reunions, Golf Tournaments, MoH events, events in D.C., to include Arlington National Cemetery and the horse crew stuff out there. Very prestigious, but idk the spelling, the Cassion Platoon?

She's raised money and provided help for Soldiers and their families in every facet of their lives when needed.

So many countless needs that she has willingly, openly, and of no agenda other than to be a Patriotic American to the men and women of our Nation's fighting force, helped out Soldiers and their families during their challenging times.

I would be remiss to share everything that she has done for me, even though I'll miss things...

Leta published a piece on me that led distant family to find me, and Leta orchestrated it all.

Leta visited me at my PFDR grad and took some fellow, former Rock Paratroopers out to lunch. Picked up the bill, as she always does.

Leta has organized and funded several get togethers for LGOPs all over the country, reconnecting me to the brotherhood.

Leta raised over $10,000 for me in 2020 when I was deployed and my father had committed suicide with zero life insurance. She made the cross-country trip to my father's funeral, and then took the family out to dinner and picked up the tab.

Leta has invited me to countless unit-oriented functions and has always stubbornly paid the travel, living expenses, and anything else when I didn't have the means to travel.

I missed a flight leaving after an OK reunion, that she paid to fly me out there because I wasn't going to go, and she paid to have another flight booked on the way out when I woke up about 4 hours after my flight had left.

Leta coordinated for me to meet Brett Michaels and sing with him on stage. Lol. 

Leta corralled me in to help get a Sergeant Morales Club medallion and certificate reproduced and hand-delivered 11 years later to a Gold Star family after it had been lost. 

Leta reunited me with LTC(R) Roy Lombardo, legendary leader of men who conducted the only combat jump into Warzone D in Vietnam, and other fellow Bravo Bulls at the unveiling ceremony of the 173rd memorial at the Infantry Museum at Ft. Benning, GA. 3,000 people in attendance and I had the honor to be able to lay a wreath in honor of a Fallen Hero with the Gold Star family behind me in absolute silence, followed by Taps, followed by every generation of attack, recon, and troop-carrying rotary wing aircraft conducting a low-flying formation overhead.

For everything that I can recall, I know that I have missed two-fold.

Just about everyone in the unit, past and present, knows Leta, and knows her self-less service that she's provided to us all.

Leta was diagnosed with cancer, went through some surgeries, and is about to begin chemo. She's a very proud woman and kept all of this close to the chest until she could no more. 

Without hesitation, I am obligated to help as much as I can. Leta doesn't have the support, in her battle, that she's provided all of us in ours for the past 20 years.

Her medical bills, which I have seen, are not covered completely by her insurance, it'll run out soon, she's got medical bills that are still growing and will continue to. She 100% needs, and 110% deserves, all of our help to support her and pass along her story to other fellow Americans that do not know her.

I take this mission as passionately as any mission I've ever had in combat, so if you know me in that aspect, you know this isn't just a post to look at and give a thumbs up.

Please re-post this, push her story to the unknowns, and please contribute whatever you can. It's what family does, and Leta is our family.

We can't cure her, we can't go through the treatment for her, we can't live with her and physically help her through everything that she is going through on her own, but we can alleviate the burden of her medical bills.

We owe Leta that at the very least.

Please help Leta and please stay engaged in getting her story out.

"We move to the sound of gunfire, so others may live..."   


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