Glenwood veteran hoping for assistance in purchasing recreational electric bike - KMAland

(Glenwood) -- One KMAland seasoned is hoping for immoderate nationalist assistance successful helping him get backmost to his outdoor passions.

James Dooley, an Omaha autochthonal and Glenwood resident, has started a GoFundMe leafage to assistance successful purchasing a Rungu electrical motorcycle for outdoor activities, including hunting and fishing. Dooley served for astir 14 years successful the United States Marine Corps opening successful 2002, including 5 deployments successful 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2011 initially moving arsenic a centrifugal T mechanic and aboriginal arsenic an explosive ordnance disposal technician. Dooley moved to Glenwood 2 years agone with his household including 2 children. Dooley tells KMA News the outdoors person ever served arsenic a intelligence getaway for him.

"It's 1 of those things that's ever been thing that helps maine unbend and I've ever conscionable enjoyed it and it's benignant of been my escape," said Dooley. "I've besides been diagnosed with beauteous atrocious (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) arsenic good and it truly helps arsenic acold arsenic helping calm each of those issues down."

Dooley says helium had besides often hosted respective different veterans astatine his home, wherever helium often volition crystal food successful the colder months -- which helium sees arsenic a immense intelligence payment for him and the different veterans.

However, since 2015 erstwhile Dooley was medically retired from the Marine Corps, chronic backmost issues, including 2 surgeries and a imaginable third, person greatly constricted his abilities to partake successful those assorted activities.

"Because of that it's conscionable really, truly hard to get retired immoderate bask thing -- particularly hunting," Dooley explained. "Just carrying the cogwheel and past if I was to really sprout a cervid and getting it backmost retired -- I conscionable physically can't bash it."

After a bully magnitude of probe and review, Dooley says the Rungu motorcycle would greatly assistance him successful respective recreational activities.

"It's a two-wheel abdominous tyre motorcycle successful beforehand and past single-wheeled successful the backmost but the stableness of it is unmatched arsenic acold arsenic electrical bikes go," helium said. "It is capable to propulsion a tiny trailer with it that would beryllium capable to clasp my cogwheel and oregon the cervid if I was to spell hunting and it could besides propulsion my crystal sportfishing shack."

After feeling the thought of asking for the wide public's assistance whitethorn not person initially been the best-received connection owed to the ample cost, Dooley was amazed by the magnitude of support.

"I person gotten rather a spot much enactment than I expected," said Dooley. "Some of it's my family, but successful the past 2 oregon 3 days I've been getting a batch of enactment and donations from radical who I don't adjacent cognize who they are with a batch much smaller donations -- which has been perfectly awesome due to the fact that I honestly didn't expect that."

Dooley's GoFundMe leafage is disposable here. On this Veteran's Day, Dooley says helium appreciates the acknowledgment helium has gotten and acknowledgment each of those who person and are presently serving -- peculiarly the older generations, including the Vietnam War-era veterans.