About Us

As an official Department of the Navy program, Navy Wounded Warrior provides services and assistance that fulfills the Navy and Coast Guard's promise to care for their people when the unexpected happens. Since 2006, Navy Wounded warrior has helped more than 10,000 Sailors and Coast Guardsmen with individually tailored and comprehensive non-medical assistance designed to optimize the success of enrollees' recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts. 

Mission

Navy Wounded Warrior ensures wounded, ill, and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen never sail alone. We provide personalized and comprehensive non-medical care, resources, and advocacy. We empower our warriors through the development and implementation of holistic recovery goals that create a strong foundation for continuation of service or successful transition to civilian life.

Vision

We will serve as the anchor for our enrollees, their command leadership, medical services, and social support networks. We will ensure Sailors and Coast Guardsmen never sail alone as they navigate a life-changing or career-altering diagnosis or condition.

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Non-Medical Care

Navy Wounded Warrior teams customize support to each enrolled Service Member's needs. Personalization looks different for everyone, but all enrollees receive a tailored, comprehensive care plan that addresses and supports the enrollee's realistic goals across recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Support includes:

• Pay and personnel matters
• Lodging and housing adaptation resources
• Education benefits and job-training guidance
• Adaptive sports and reconditioning
• Transition assistance to the VA
• Caregiver resource navigation

Eligibility

Navy Wounded Warrior enrollment is voluntary and available for actively serving post-9/11 Sailors and Coast Guardsmen of all ranks who have been seriously wounded, ill, or injured. This includes: 

• OIF/OEF/OND casualties
• Shipboard and training accidents
• Liberty accidents
• Serious medical and psychological conditions

Navy Wounded Warrior is not limited to those with combat-related injuries. It also encompasses Sailors and Coast Guardsmen with serious non-combat injuries, whether sustained on liberty or duty, as well as those suffering from significant physical or psychological illnesses such as cancer, MS, PTSD, and TBI.

Because participation in the program is voluntary, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen must be enrolled to access the services. Referrals can come from various sources, including:

• Service Member's command
• Peers
• Medical staff
• Fleet and Family Support Center personnel
• Family members
• Self-referrals

Headquarters and Regional Support

Navy Wounded Warrior is headquartered at the Washington Navy Yard. Our regional staff—including Non-Medical Care Managers, Recovery Care Coordinators, and Transition Coordinators—are co-located with Fleet and Family Support Centers and treatment facilities across the United States. This ensures close collaboration with Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, their families, caregivers, commands, and medical staff.