Deputy Commander Capt. Bruce Gillingham (in the photo on the right) presented plaques of appreciation from the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia.  The plaques were given to Peter Barnes, Executive Director of Wheelchair Foundation Washington, D.C., his wife, Cheryl, and Greg Hartville of Wilcox Industries (on the left).  This was done in recognition of Wilcox Industries’ donation of 130 wheelchairs to this military hospital.

Airman Edmonson Jacket, a patient at NMCP (seated in the photo), received one of the donated wheelchairs.  As part of the same donation, Wilcox Industries also sponsored 150 wheelchairs to the Womack Army Medical Center in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

In 2004, the company also sponsored 280 wheelchairs for Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Wilcox Industries, a defense contractor based in Newington, New Hampshire, is headed by CEO Jim Teetzel, a generous supporter of our nation’s military service men and women.