ickes. >> thank you chairman collins and member casey, i would like to thank elizabeth dole foundation, senator dole, ryan phillipee and terri for taking the time to be here today. it is my hope that by sharing a small part of my journey as -- my journey as a caregiver with this committee that you can ensure future caregivers, do not face the same hurdles that my husband and i and other careparn givers have had to overcome.hera my husband had been married to the army long before he mother and mother and -- married me. he still saw action in battalion, that's when hi first suffered the first tbi and lateo in a bad accident where he got metal so much that the army released him. after 9/11, he could not do the job the army trained him to do, he went and had every waiver needed to get back into the reserves as mp, military police officer. he signed up for every single deployment. he was deployed more than he wasn't. over the course of deployments sam earned three purple hearts. he did his job. he brought every single person back alive. he went above and beyond his duty.li he came looking l

. >> now a hearing on military caregivers with former senate elizabeth dole on her foundation work that advocates for those who care for wounded veterans weapon also hear from actor and director ryan phillipe, an ambassador for the foundation's hidden heroes initiative, and testimony from women who care for their injured husbands. >> this hearing will come to order. good afternoon.