Thank you for your service and relaying your experience.I'm a wounded warrior recovering from injuries sustained in Baghdad. Being stationed in the WTU (Warrior Transition Unit) in Fort Knox has let me have lots of experience with the Wounded Warrior Project. Here's what I know first hand.
Two years ago when I was injured, I was MEDEVAC'd and the in-flight surgeon cut off everything I was wearing work on me. My uniform, belt, boot laces... everything. I was completely naked and wrapped in an aluminum blanket by the time the bird landed in Balad.
The first time I ever had contact with the WWP was when they gave me a set of clothes to wear around the ICU to save my dignity. Socks, shoes, hygiene kits... they brought me everything I needed. They brought me a computer with internet access and Skype when I was well enough to sit up and be coherent, and they left it with me for the entire time I was there. 24-7. This made a huge difference in my recovery because I had a portal to see my family back home and reassure them that I was okay, that I was going to live, etc. And I was able to be comforted by the presence of my loved ones. They asked for nothing in return, and I was so amazed. The entire time I was in the ICU, they treated me like a king.
For this, I've donated to them countless times.
Most recently, however... I signed up to go on a fly fishing expedition that was sponsored by them. It was for beginners (I've never fly fished before) and I have to say, I probably would have been better off learning on my own. // The schedule was ridiculously packed, and in an entire weekend, we were only allowed to spend a total of 1 hour in the stream. The meals they "provided" were worse than the $5 box lunches from Marsh, and the equipment they let us rent from them was either broken or on it's last leg. Let me give that to you again... they made us rent fishing equipment from them... on an "all inclusive" fishing expedition.
I don't know what's happened to the WWP in the last two years, but it's gone from a service member oriented group to a profit oriented group, and they were shaving money everywhere they could.
Just my opinion.