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Our Services to Veterans

Medical Transportation Service to Clinical Care

Restoring Veterans' Health One Trip at a Time

Angel Wings for Veterans provides wounded, ill and injured veterans and active duty service members along with their families with free travel to clinical care on the ground and in the air with gas cards, bus and train tickets, general aviation flights, and commercial airline tickets.

We provide transportation to clinical care and a variety of therapies:

  • Medical treatment
  • PTS/TBI treatment
  • Rehabilitation
  • Service dog acquisition
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  • Counseling
  • Adaptive sports events

Through partnerships with major airlines, we provide airline tickets to treatment. Flights in small planes owned and operated by volunteer pilots are also available.


For shorter distances, ground transportation via gas cards and commercial bus and rail tickets may be the appropriate means of transit.

Commercial Airline Tickets

Angel Wings for Veterans coordinates charitable flights on commercial airlines for patients and escorts needing to travel more than 750 miles to access medical or rehabilitative care. 

Volunteer Pilot Flights

Volunteer pilots are available to veterans and caregivers needing transportation for treatment. Patients must be ambulatory, which means they must be able to walk, enter and exit the plane with little or no assistance, and require no medical care (i.e., doctor or nurse) en route. There must be a financial or compelling need for the flight. Volunteer pilots can assist only when the destination is within 750 miles.

Long Distance Ground Transportation

Angel Wings for Veterans arranges charitable, non-local trips for veterans who are unable to fly or who need to travel more than 50 miles to access care. We provide gas cards and commercial train and bus tickets. The typical trip does not exceed 300 miles.

Our Free Medical Transport Services

Every year Mercy Medical Angels provides more than 27,000 free trips to medical care across the country and around the world for patients of every age and need.

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