For The Ladies Marines Beefcake Calendar

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NEW YORK -- A group of Marines and ex-Marines who fought in Iraq -- including two wounded there -- is featured in a beefcake calendar being sold to help wounded veterans.

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"It's a stopgap effort to help people where government programs leave off," said Rudy Reyes, who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan and is on the calendar's cover. "This is a way for citizens to help citizens."

The "America's Heroes" calendar is being sold by Freedom is Not Free, Freedom Is Not Free Home Page a San Diego-based nonprofit group that helps injured service members and their families with such expenses as travel, mortgage and utility bills and special beds for burn victims.

Reyes and the other men who appear in the glossy 2007 lineup served in Iraq in Marine reconnaissance units. Sgt. James Wright, 31, who lost his hands and part of his leg, appears on the back cover in full uniform, saluting with what's left of his right arm.

Several members of the group, promoting the calendar on a cross-country tour, said Thursday they have medical conditions, ranging from combat stress-related symptoms to injuries to their feet, knees, hips and backs from carrying combat loads of more than 200 pounds.

When service members come back, "many don't have the financial or emotional support to get back to daily life," said former Sgt. Michael Saucier, 24, of Prior Lake, Minn., who served two Iraq tours and is now a carpenter's apprentice in Lake Tahoe, Nev.

All but one of the men had to be coaxed to pose shirtless for the calendar.

"I wasn't afraid to pose. This is the new-generation Marines," quipped Sean Mickle, 31, a Marine platoon sergeant at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

The $14.99 calendar promises that "100 percent of proceeds aid wounded heroes and their families."

Production expenses were covered by private donations to Freedom is Not Free, founded last year by entrepreneur David Dominguez.

"There is a need," he said. "Some Iraq veterans are so depressed when they get back they can't even fill out the papers required for benefits."

The calendar is the brainchild of his client Jean Hamerslag, a California advertising executive who suggested that the organization's fundraising needed something that would grab the public's attention.

"Sex," she said with a giggle.

Source: WRAL.com - Health - Marines Pose For Beefcake Calendar

[JudyLynne]

nice calendar and good price and 100 percent of proceeds aid wounded heroes and their families.

[Woodmonkey]

Get out the drool buckets, Ladies. and to think it all goes to help our wounded and their families.

[conlor]

It might burn up the mailbox, but I'm going to order one!

[milmor_1]

Sorry ladies NO photographs available

US marines turn calendar boys in charity drive

US marines turn calendar boys in charity drive - Irish Independent

Saturday October 14th 2006

IT IS yet another charity calendar featuring a group of friends stripping off - but this time the Women's Institute is nowhere in sight.

Nine US Marines, two seriously wounded during their tours in Iraq, have peeled off their shirts to pose for a calendar to raise funds for other wounded soldiers in need.

America's Heroes, a tub-thumping celebration of the US' military beefcake is being sold to raise money for Freedom is not Free, a charity that helps wounded soldiers whose needs are not being met by the government.

Some veterans' organisations have criticised the government for not providing sufficient support for the wounded, especially with the financial hardships their families face after their return.

The calendar hopes to address that, raising money for medical equipment, and to pay mortgages and other expenses.

"It's a stopgap effort to help people where government programmes leave off," said Rudy Reyes, a former Marine sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who features as the calendar's cover boy and as Mr June.

It was Mr Reyes' impressive physique, honed in Marine boot camp, which inspired the calendar. Jean Hamerslag, a board member of the charity, was working out with Mr Reyes when the idea of the calendar came to her.

[Betty Boop]

Nice, but I'd rather see some Army Green out of uniform. I Never recall seeing any Airborne with anything but mighty fine assets! Maybe SFGA and filthybeast would be willing to put together a calendar for us - woo-hoo!

[BloodThirstyWench]

You can bet your sweet a....butt I'm going to have it hanging come January 1. But I'm going to paste a picture of Rohr's face over each month. Ahhhh, a girl can dream, can't she?