Leading up to the Rams Monday Night Football showdown against the Dolphins, the Rams kicked off their seventh consecutive 'Salute to Service Week' partnering with veteran service organizations and nonprofits to honor, empower, and connect with the military community.
The organization partnered with Verizon to join Homes 4 Families for a home build with Davis Allen, Blake Corum, Tyler Davis, Justin Dedich, Brennan Jackson, Quentin Lake, Beaux Limmer, Jaylen McCollough, Dylan McMahon, Colby Parkinson and Alex Ward volunteering alongside Rams staff. Their efforts contributed to a home build that will become home to multiple Veteran families. Volunteers helped prepare the property and participated in tasks including completing perimeter vinyl fencing, removing old chain links, rough grading, distributing sandbags, and grinding tree stumps.
Look through photos of Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake, rookie running back Blake Corum, more players, cheerleaders, staff, and Rampage as they help build houses for veterans and visit fans at the LA Air Force Base in celebration Salute to Service.
The Rams also partnered with Shelter to Solider to host a Rams Readers assembly at Hudnall Elementary School in Inglewood. Shelter to Soldier's Canine Ambassador Therapy Team, a group of certified Therapy Dogs, and their dedicated handlers that provide comfort and love to members of the veteran and active-duty military community, kicked off the assembly to educate children about therapy and service dogs. Shelter to Soldier adopts dogs from local shelters and trains them to become psychiatric service dogs for combat veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and other injuries associated with traumatic service experiences.
Fort MacArthur Los Angeles Air Force Base was the last stop before gameday, where the Rams held a Rams on Base event, also in partnership with Verizon, and hosted a fun-filled football skills and drills clinic for families from the Los Angeles and Long Beach Coast Guard Stations as well as Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. The event also featured a free youth football clinic for sixth through twelfth-grade students and participants received giveaways including tickets to a Rams home game this season.
Before kickoff on Monday Night Football, 2021 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and Super Bowl LVI Champion Andrew Whitworth introduced the West Point Drill Team for a pregame performance. Matthew and Kelly Stafford hosted 20 Navy SEALs and their guests as part of the Rams' 'Row of Honor" and 40 Angelenos for their Oath of Enlistment ceremony on the field, in partnership with the LA Military Entrance Processing Station. The organization also hosted the Los Angeles Rams Wheelchair Football Team in a suite and members of the team, who are military veterans, were recognized in-game. To cap off the evening, Marine Corps Officer Cobra Pilot Captain Justin Vega surprised his son by reuniting with him at halftime after a six-month deployment in Japan.
For more information on the Rams community and military efforts, please visit https://www.therams.com/community/military/.
