
John Loyd U.S. Army | Aug 1993/Nov 2012 Wilmington Program and North Carolina John Loyd was born July 31, 1976 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He graduated from Woodruff High School in 1994. He joined the delayed entry program for the Army in 1993 and attended boot camp and AIT at Fort Knox Kentucky and retired in November of 2012. During his Army career he served as a Scout. John served multiple deployments to the Middle East, to include Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. John has been married for over 20 years and has 2 children. John is proud to have been able to serve his country, and serve in the presence of true American Heroes during his time in the military. He has been involved in PHWFF as a participant for quite a while, and has recently taken on the role of Project lead for the Wilmington program. When John was asked what PHWFF means to him, this was his response “I think that PHWFF has been one of the most beneficial things that I have been involved with since my injury in Afghanistan. PHWFF has helped me learn to cope with my physical injuries, as well as the ones people do not see. I honestly believe that had I not discovered the program, that I would be heading down the road to be a bad Veteran statistic.”