The wide range of wounded, ill, and injured service members eligible for and currently receiving special care tends to obscure the weighty image generally conjured by the term "wounded warrior."
The Wounded Warrior Regiment (WWR), the Marine Corps' embodiment of "Marines take care of their own," officially stood up at Quantico, Virginia, in April 2007. Today, it includes the Wounded Warrior Battalion-East (WWBN-E) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Wounded Warrior Battalion-West (WWBN-W) at Camp Pendleton, California. The West battalion has detachments at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego; the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, the Naval Hospital in Twentynine Palms, the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and a future establishment in Okinawa.
