All Veteran Owned
About Us:
Welcome to Frontline Metal! We are a small metal art manufacturing company run by a husband and wife team who both served in the military. Charlie was in the U.S. Coast Guard for 10 years before being medically retired and Ashley has been a Critical Care (ICU/Trauma ICU) Registered Nurse since 2011. Ashley also served in the U.S. Navy Reserves as a Critical Care Nurse. They have 2 young boys who they are raising to love and serve the country and community with passion and integrity.Our badass metal art products are made in California and are made with indoor/outdoor lifetime durability. Our unique, proprietary process gives us ultimate design flexibility and allows us to make the most beautiful metal art on the market. All of our products are backed by the industry’s best customer service with a lifetime warranty on everything we sell.
About Us:
6 YEARS, 9 MONTHS, 8 DAYS
We can slice and dice the time any way we’d like, but in the end it took 213,753,600 seconds for Combat Flags to come into existence. It took 353 weeks and 3 days for a single idea, a chronic thought, to become a tangible and meaningful project.
But, before we get to Combat Flags, let me introduce myself. My name is Dan and I served 6 years in the United States Army. I joined up a few months after my seventeenth birthday, just 2 years after Sept. 11, with the sole intention of serving my country. I didn’t join for college money or to find myself, I joined because it was the right thing to do.
I qualified and signed up for 37F – Psychological Operations. Why? Because it was the only job available at the time that guaranteed me an Airborne slot. After basic, AIT, jump school and language school, I joined my company and deployed twice in support of OEF-P. My 6 years in the Army were some of the best of my life. I met amazing people, grew (personally and professionally), learned lifelong lessons and started on the journey that led me to have the life I have today.
When I decided to leave the military, I left the military all the way. I packed it up — literally and figuratively — and put it away. I started school, graduated school, started my career and lived my life. But… I missed the military and I missed the connection to people who were like me. For the first time in my adult life I was accountable for nobody but myself.
So, I began the lengthy journey of finding my niche. I knew I wanted to reintegrate with the military and veteran community, but I didn’t want to volunteer randomly and donate money periodically. I wanted something with more meaning… something I could build a community around.
Enter Combat Flags. The idea for Combat Flags came during a mundane conference call. I happened to look up toward the corner of my desk, like I’d done a million times before, and spotted the tiny American Flag I had hanging. The idea struck me instantly. The Original Combat Flag was born. It took about 3 months of learning, testing and perfecting before I “officially” launched Combat Flags, but it happened. And I never looked back.
The sole purpose of Combat Flags is to connect veterans and give back in a meaningful way. At the time I launched the company I committed to supporting a veteran 501(c)(3) dedicated to helping our brothers and sisters who need it most. After much research I decided on Stop Soldier Suicide.
Lifetime donations recently surpassed $100,000, benefiting 77 veterans with much-needed support! I’m continually blown away by the meaning so many of you find in Combat Flags and my mission.
A simple “thank you” isn’t enough. But I am thankful for those of you who support Combat Flags and support my personal mission to leave the world a better place than we found it. Without you none of this would be possible.
This blog is twofold. I will use it to answer questions I’ve received since starting Combat Flags and to shed light on topics of interest. But more importantly I will feature stories from active duty, reserve and veterans to tell future generations of our service and what it means. If you’ve served and would like to contribute please checkout this simple guide and Q&A. If you have an idea for a future post please let me know in the comments!
About Us:
Our Mission
To serve and honor Veterans and their families by empowering them to build meaningful lives through connections to fulfilling careers, benefits and services; and to proactively strengthen Veteran communities through leadership and collaboration.
Our Core Values
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Commitment to Excellence – We provide valued, relevant and tailored services for our clients, partners and communities.
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Calling – We serve with passion and commitment. We are called to this significant work.
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Teamwork – We are caring, knowledgeable individuals delivering quality services as a team. Everyone contributes to the collective good.
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Respect – We honor clients, stakeholders and each other with compassion and dignity.
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Stewardship – We are unwavering in the proper handling of the lives, information and resources entrusted to us.
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Integrity – We hold honesty, fairness and ethical behavior as non-negotiable.
We can’t fulfill this mission without you! Join us today as we continue to serve Veterans who served us all – many at a great cost!
About Us:
THE SEMPER SILKIES STORY
SEMPER SILKIES, THE HEADQUARTERS OF SILKIES. THE WORLD’S MOST VERSATILE SHORTS. STUFF OF MARINE LEGEND AND ARMY LORE. KNOWN AS CATCH-ME-F*CK-ME’S, SILKY SWEETS, ACTION PANTS, RANGER PANTIES, DAISY DUKES OF FREEDOM, AND MANY MORE ADORING NAMES BY SERVICE MEMBERS. SEMPER SILKIES IS MORE THAN THE MOST PAIR OF SHORTS EVER TO EXIST. SEMPER SILKIES IS A COMMUNITY. A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYBODY WEARS THE MOST AMAZING PAIR OF SHORTS EVER TO EXIST! BUT BE CAREFUL, SILKY FANS, IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT IF YOU CUT THE LINER OUT OF YOUR SILKIES, YOU WILL TEAR A HOLE IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. SO NOW GO ENJOY YOUR SILKIES MY SILKY FRIENDS. . . BUT KEEP IN MIND, YOU WANT THEM SNUG. SO IF THEY FIT, GO DOWN A SIZE!
About Us:
“It was supposed to be a one-time-thing”
On May 19, 2016, one of Korey’s closest friends from the Marines, took his own life.
In mourning, Korey created a memorial plaque in honor of his fallen brother. He thought having a plaque help the pain, but it was just too difficult. He decided to gift the plaque to the mother of the fallen Marine.
Shortly after, he started getting requests for plaques to be made and gifted to other families across the nation and that’s when he decided to invest in equipment like laser engravers and table saws, just to keep giving back.
Memorializing these fallen heroes became a full time job and though he was paying out of pocket and not accepting donations, Korey was ecstatic knowing that when people saw the plaques it was helping that Hero live on.
So. Til Valhalla Project became official in 2017.
“A HERO NEVER DIES”
Korey has always said “A Hero NEVER DIES until their name is spoken for the last time”.
We wanted to show these families that someone out there, is always thinking of their loved one, and cares about preserving their legacy too. This is why Til Valhalla Project doesn’t discriminate our fallen Heroes by cause of death or when they passed, we want to honor ALL fallen Heroes equally, because they all chose to selflessly serve our nation.
“When a family loses a Hero over 10 years ago, they lose much of the support they had when the tragedy first occurred. We step in years later, to let the family know their Hero will never be forgotten and we are thinking of them. It truly reignites the flame so to speak, and it’s amazing to see their responses.” – Korey Shaffer
“IT’S ONLY THE BEGINNING”
Starting in 2019 Til Valhalla Project donates an additional 20% of net proceeds towards reducing veteran suicide.
“Veteran suicide is a plague and we are making our stand to stop it.”
Thanks to thousands of loyal customers, we are able to donate to charities and gift memorial plaques to hundreds of families who have lost their loved ones.
When you buy from Til Valhalla Project, you are not only preserving the legacies of our fallen, but also saving the lives of those who are currently struggling.
We will continue to deliver free memorial plaques and donate to charities with every purchase because this ensures our heroes are never forgotten and their legacies will live on forever.
