Leading The Way With Honor
“Honoring the past, saluting the present, and inspiring the future”, is the mission of the Veteran’s Tribute Tower of San Antonio, Texas. Master Sgt. Brandon Lambert started The Lambert Foundation in 2013 to show tribute and honor of past, present, and the next generation war heroes.
Lambert was born into the military life. His father was a career Airman stationed in Italy when he was born. The family spent the next 12 years living in Italy, Greece, Germany, and Spain, before going back home to Rome, N.Y. Lambert followed his father’s footsteps and joined in Air Force after high school in 1997.
In his 17-year career, Lambert has been stationed in Utah, Korea, Italy, Guam, England, Florida, and Texas. He has also been deployed to Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, Mauritania, and twice to Iraq.
Lambert was awarded Air Force Times Airman of the Year in 2012 for his many volunteer efforts throughout the years. While in Afghanistan he started a “Penny-a-Pushup” fundraiser to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. “We were seeing wounded warriors coming in everyday, so that was the organization we chose to sponsor,” said Lambert.
The fundraiser spread beyond the base in Afghanistan to other bases and soon to bases in Asia and eventually back to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. where troops raised over $4,500 for the Wounded Warrior Project by doing tens of thousands of pushups. San Antonio being in last stop before retirement, Lambert wanted to do something to dedicated all the honorable men and women in the military by starting an organization, The Lambert Foundation, to raise money and erect a tribute clock tower in downtown San Antonio.
“San Antonio is one of the biggest military cities in the country. I want to show tribute to those that served, are currently serving, and those that will serve this great nation.” said Lambert. He is now an active volunteer and serves as treasurer for the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) of San Antonio. Lambert is also involved as an advisor and counselor for troops coming home from overseas in order to help them find and get placed in a job at one of Air Force bases around the country.
Lambert has helped over two hundred troops get into technical school to have jobs in information technology, cyber security, and computer programming, to keep them continuing serving in the military. “It was very difficult for me to find something to do in between deployments and being stationed around the world, so I wanted to do something to make it easier for everyone else to find and work in something that they can do and be good at,” said Lambert. Lambert continues to help current and future generations of war heroes by showing his service, honor, and tribute.