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    • Event Sign Up
      • Camping Retreat - AL
    • More About Us
      • Board Members
      • Mission/Vision/Goals
      • Remembrance Tags-Military
      • Fundraising
      • Testimonials
      • Photo Gallery
      • Video with Bobby Henline
      • Allies
      • Blog
    • Services
    • DONATE
    • Shop
    • Real Talk;
    • LifeWork Adapter
    • BBQ
    • Events
    • Event Photos
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(843) 970-3110

Bobby Henline Foundation
  • Home
  • Event Sign Up
    • Camping Retreat - AL
  • More About Us
    • Board Members
    • Mission/Vision/Goals
    • Remembrance Tags-Military
    • Fundraising
    • Testimonials
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video with Bobby Henline
    • Allies
    • Blog
  • Services
  • DONATE
  • Shop
  • Real Talk;
  • LifeWork Adapter
  • BBQ
  • Events
  • Event Photos
    • Photos
  • Contact Us
  • Crisis Assistance
  • IRS Charity Letter
  • Overview
  • Refund Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Shipping Policy
  • REAL TALK; ANNOUNCEMENT

Welcome to Forging Forward

Forging Forward is dedicated to helping active duty and veteran military and first responders, and Gold Star Families through Organized Retreats, Remembrance Tags, Outdoor Outreach, Inspiration, Motivation, and more. 


"What's Strong With You" is our motto for healing and forging forward with life.


#whatsSTRONGwithYOU

EVENTS COMING UP

RAPID CITY, SD

BUENA VISTA, CO

BUENA VISTA, CO

Casting Vets presents comedy with Bobby Henline!

Saturday, August 13 at VFW Post 1273, Rapid City. Contact Casting Vets to get your tickets!


Casting Vets CONTACT FOR TICKETS

BUENA VISTA, CO

BUENA VISTA, CO

BUENA VISTA, CO

September 9-10 is the Colorado American Legion ROMP! 

Bobby Henline will be doing a comedy show on September 9 at VFW Post 1166 at 7:00 PM.


Hope to see you there!

CO ALR ROMP REGISTRATION

NASHVILLE, TN

BUENA VISTA, CO

LOUISVILLE, KY

Bobby Henline [Forging Forward] will be playing on a golf team with Sean George [Beard Vet Coffee] and Scotty Jones [American Warrior Garage],

Beard Vet will have coffee at the Charity Golf Festival, American Warrior Garage and Forging Forward will have their products for sale at their booth. 


Come out and see us!


EVERYONE WELCOME!

Music city charity golf festival REGISTRATION

LOUISVILLE, KY

THE WOODLANDS, TX

LOUISVILLE, KY

Bobby Henline is the guest speaker for the National Guard Association of Kentucky. This is a private event for NGAKY on September 30-October 1.

NGAKY Registration

THE WOODLANDS, TX

THE WOODLANDS, TX

THE WOODLANDS, TX

Bobby Henline will be a guest player at the Braden Bailess Memorial Golf Tournament on October 24.


EVERYONE WELCOME!

Braden bailess golf registration

ST. LOUIS, MO

THE WOODLANDS, TX

THE WOODLANDS, TX

 FUNNY BONE COMEDY CLUB

Bobby Henline will share his story and comedy on October 29 in a fundraiser with Burns Recovered  


EVERYONE WELCOME!

Get tickets here

McHENRY, IL

GULF SHORES, AL

GULF SHORES, AL

Bobby Henline will share his story and comedy at The Vixen on November 5


EVERYONE WELCOME

get tickets here

GULF SHORES, AL

GULF SHORES, AL

GULF SHORES, AL

Bobby Henline will share his story and comedy at he Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association annual conference on November 17.


Private event.

LIFEWORK ADAPTER AND BOBBY HENLINE

Check out this great video of Bobby Henline, arm amputee and military veteran, using the power tools with the LifeWork Adapter!

FREE LifeWork Adapter Power Tool Kit for Military Veterans and First Responders

Forging Forward is working with LifeWork Adapter to provide a FREE adapted power tool kit to military veterans and first responders (active or veteran) who have an arm amputation and using a prosthetic who can benefit from the tools. Injury does NOT have to be military or work related. 


Check out LifeWork Adapter here.


Check out more LifeWork Adapter videos here.


Click the button below to start the easy application process!

LifeWork Power Tool Kit Application

forging forward overview, history, goals

Overview

Our History

Our History

The Bobby Henline Foundation, Inc. doing business as Forging Forward, is an IRS registered and approved 501(c)3 non-profit, public charity organization, EIN 83-4615262. 


 The Foundation consists of a group of people who believe it is in everyone’s best interest to honor and empower Military and First Responder Veterans and their families, 

The Bobby Henline Foundation, Inc. doing business as Forging Forward, is an IRS registered and approved 501(c)3 non-profit, public charity organization, EIN 83-4615262. 


 The Foundation consists of a group of people who believe it is in everyone’s best interest to honor and empower Military and First Responder Veterans and their families, and Gold Star Families. By joining like-minded individuals and organizations together, we can fulfill the vision of creating everyday lives filled with quality, friendship, motivation, flexibility, and individual pride. We do this through the sharing to inspire learning, advance knowledge and strengthen our local and global communities. 


Within this duty is the underlying social responsibility of assisting the target populations to re-secure their humanity through the provision of and funding for opportunities to increase social connectivity, to gain new skills, increase knowledge and treatment of physical and mental health conditions related to stress and trauma, and provide supports that allow an individual to live a collective, fulfilling and dignified life.

Bobby Henline - burnt Army uniform flag patch

Our History

Our History

Our History

In April 2007 Bobby Henline came home from his 4th deployment to a war zone barely holding on to his life in a medically induced coma.


Doctors said there was no medical explanation why he was alive.

He feels he should have died with the other four men in the vehicle but didn’t. 


Bobby has learned over the years how to battle the demons of PT

In April 2007 Bobby Henline came home from his 4th deployment to a war zone barely holding on to his life in a medically induced coma.


Doctors said there was no medical explanation why he was alive.

He feels he should have died with the other four men in the vehicle but didn’t. 


Bobby has learned over the years how to battle the demons of PTSD, Survivors Guilt, Emptiness and Isolation.  He knows the darkness of feeling lost and detached from friends and family.  Many nights he prayed to God to let him die in his sleep.


For over 10 yrs, Bobby has traveled the world sharing his story inspiring others and being inspired by others.


With supportive friends, Bobby started the Bobby Henline Foundation dba

“Forging Forward” to help others like him, Military and First Responder Veterans and their families and Gold Star Families.  


Forging Forward's goal is to help them find their outlet, show them how to use the tools and weapons Bobby has been using for years to battle and live with his "new" normal to help them find their "new" normal, and to help them look deep inside and ask

not "What’s wrong with me?", but to ask “What is Strong with Me?"


Bobby says "A good leader has been through hell and understands 

what it takes to get through.

Then reaches back and helps the next persons through. I hope to be a good leader to as many as I can. I feel it is my mission on earth to help others through hell and continue Forging Forward into the light."


#whatsSTRONGwithYOU

Major Goals

Our History

Major Goals

For Military and First Responder Veterans and their families, Gold Star Families


  • Connectivity with each other and their communities through varied forms of art such as speaking, photography, forging, comedy, acting, music, poetry, book writing, songwriting, storytelling, fishing, axe throwing, running, and more.


  • Positive, collaborative soci

For Military and First Responder Veterans and their families, Gold Star Families


  • Connectivity with each other and their communities through varied forms of art such as speaking, photography, forging, comedy, acting, music, poetry, book writing, songwriting, storytelling, fishing, axe throwing, running, and more.


  • Positive, collaborative social interaction through the varied forms of art.


  • Access to existing organizations offering activities to promote physical and mental health, socializaton, activities.


  • Forging Forward encourages active duty and Veteran Military and First Responders to reach out to a buddy, administrator, professional, or family when the load feels too heavy to carry alone, with a focus on getting professional assistance to work through stress related to war wounds, job, relationships, substance use, physical health, money, legal, or housing stress.

 

  • Forging Forward's ultimate goal is the elimination of suicide among Military and First Responder populations.

'I thought my life was over:' Iraq attack survivor expands foundation for SC veterans

 

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — Bobby Henline never truly saw a life serving in the military. Like so many, he served for three years and took the chance at free secondary school education.

It was his uncle who motivated him to join the U.S. Army at 17 to fight in Desert Storm. After that, he returned home to pick up where he left off and started a family.

“I got married, three kids, ten years later 9/11 happens," Henline said. "And I’m 30 years old now, I’ve been out ten years, but I knew I couldn’t let something like that happen to my country and not do anything about it.”

ABC15 News wpde - click here

Forging forward:suicide prevention with high school studentS

Bravo748 Speaker and Comedian Bobby Henline speaks to the EHOVE Drug Free Program students at the EHOVE Career Center in Milan, OH. Henline is known as the "Well Done Comedian" and his focus was suicide awareness and prevention, with a focus on forging forward through life with hope. 


FOOTAGE COURTESY OF BCSNE and BUCKEYE BROADBAND

Forging forward: suicide prevention

Bobby Henline talks about Suicide Prevention, the Forging Forward Remembrance Tags; and why we do what we do. 

"You are beautiful" image creation

Check out  Chad, a military veteran, telling the story of the creation of the "You Are Beautiful" image.

"You are beautiful" shirt story

Check out this  video describing how "You Are Beautiful" came to be.

"Some Gave All" by Bobby Henline

Bobby Henline shares his story of his creation of the "Some Gave All" design, in honor of all the beautiful men and women, military and first responder, lost to serving in the line of duty. 

You Are Beautiful Story

A military veteran, Chad, who follows Bobby Henline’s TikTok account, but did not know him, sent a video to Bobby. The story was amazing and is the impetus behind the Forging Forward “You Are Beautiful” shirts.


Chad shared: “My eight-year-old got bit by a dog and he had to have stitches on his lip. He was feeling self-conscious about it, he didn’t want to go in the restaurant, he didn’t want to take his mask off and eat. So, I told him a little bit about you, your story, what happened to you. And my six-year-old apparently was listening more than I thought, and came to me this morning. He said ‘Hey Daddy, remember your soldier friend that got hurt? Well, I drew a picture of him.’”


We loved the story and the picture and began brainstorming ideas of ways to use it – we came up with the “You Are Beautiful” project. Bobby wanted Chad’s son to know that regardless of how he looked on the outside, he was beautiful. 


Bobby contacted Chad and asked him if he could use the drawing to raise funds for the Bobby Henline Foundation, doing business as Forging Forward, to help fellow active duty and veteran military, first responders, and Gold Star Families. Forging Forward is invested in activities that promote suicide prevention, camaraderie, skill-building, and socialization.


Without hesitation Chad said “yes” and the words “You Are Beautiful” were added. We are honored that Chad’s sons, Chaztin and Chandler, will always be a part of the Forging Forward journey.


Forging Forward is humbled by the love and support we have received, as the shirts have been purchased across the globe. The ultimate message and reminder is that All People Are Beautiful. Show respect, honor, and love towards each other. That is our reason for being.


If you want to purchase a “You Are Beautiful” shirt – go to the SHOP.

Forging Forward Never Forget

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Your Donation to Forging Forward

Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals in helping Veterans and Law Enforcement Veterans and their families,  and Gold Star Families. 

  

PUBLIC CHARITY STATUS

The Internal Revenue Service has determined the following for The Bobby Henline Foundation doing business as Forging Forward Foundation or simply Forging Forward:

EIN: 83-4615262

Public Charity Status: 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)

Exemption: IRS Code 501(c)(3)

Classification: Public Charity

Contributions from Donors: Donors can deduct contributions they make under IRC Section 170. Forging Forward is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under Section 2055, 2106, or 2522.


Mailing Address

Forging Forward Foundation

ATTN: Jamie Burton

PO Box 294

Greensburg, KY 42743

©Forging Forward-All Rights Reserved-2019

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