Veterans peer to peer health and wealth is the mission of CHIEF: Cultural Heritage Investment Equity Founders.

Health and wealth are flip sides of the same coin and crucial for well-being, yet often elusive for veterans. Our platform facilitates, nurtures, and organizes entrepreneurial aspirations into tangible assets, real estate, and experiences. For Veterans, and anyone who wants to share. 
New tools are available, bridging gaps to creating wealth and opening financial avenues once reserved only for established wealth. We utilize easy-to-navigate platforms where people with like-minded investment goals can band together in lucrative, enjoyable, transparent investments as a team. These platforms are also beneficial for passive investments. Retirees, people receiving social security and VA disability, who often have administrative and hands-on participation limitations, can still benefit from the advantages, experience, and camaraderie of investing with an investor team while maintaining compliance with the terms of their retirement and or disability status. An investor team can be four or forty, with most teams averaging 6 to 12. Our team is well-organized and investor-ready today. We are in the process of opening funding rounds. We’re focusing on our experience and success in real estate transformation, and the growing Electric mobility service industry for e-bikes, cycles, and vehicles.

Although we are considered a new startup, we have a wealth of experience throughout many disciplines and industries, with documented, tangible results in our portfolio. I'm extending an opportunity to invest in Chief for those who see the vision in our initial funding rounds. We're also inviting one or two investors to join our investor team. With proper funding, we can expand our impact and incorporate product sales to complement the adventure aspect of our collective.

***This next section is military and Veteran centric and also very much applies to many other groups like First responders, Teachers, etc. ***

Active duty military and veterans make great brand ambassadors. Discipline, attention to detail, the ability to work well with a team or alone, and the leadership training that the United States military provides are world-class; some corporations spend millions of dollars attempting to emulate the bottom-up approach of military leadership training. The spouses and children also often share these leadership and innovative qualities. You often find leaders in business whose parents were military or themselves attended ROTC training or similar in their youth. The military family is extensive. A deep pool of talent and experience to invest with and to pull from for employment and partnerships. Active duty, reserves, national guard, Civil Air Patrol, ROTC, and military schools, as well as other examples, like Native American Veteran and active duty service, interwoven into their sovereign government, every Indigenous nation unique and powerful.

We are bridging the gap between technology and tradition. Some are tech people; some are hands-on. Some are both. We combine technology and tradition, creating tangible solutions to help seamlessly navigate through the brick-and-mortar world and virtual worlds. 
My investment journey in earnest began in late 1985 while stationed At Ft Lewis, ADEA, assigned to HHB, 3rd of the 34th field artillery, third brigade 9th infantry division, HTTLD-HTTB. I was serving as a FOLT Sergeant,  Laser operator designator. We were in Yakima lasing for smart bombs and missiles for the air force and navy. Old Air Force terms like pave penny pave Spike. I'm still looking forward, and I'm still in the fight. Back to the subject, I was setting new interservice danger close protocols for jet-delivered laser-guided munitions. As a result, we were a bit further into the impact area than usual. I had picked up a piece of Shrapnel I had considered keeping as a souvenir. A lieutenant who was serving as an FSO in the field looked at me calmly and said…" you probably shouldn't tap on that with a rock like that it looks like a piece of unexploded munition"  I laid it back down, and the next thing I knew, we were talking about investing. Hell of a Segway, I know; however, as a result, I can remember every nuance until this day. After speaking with him that day and on several other occasions, I opened my first Charles Schwab account with the lieutenant's advice, and I'm sorry, I can't remember his name. 

I tell this story because it shows how organic investing can be and how knowledge is often transferred to another person, the ethos, the awareness, the practicality, the adventure, and the fortune. I learned early lessons that if assets are adequately diversified, it's a system that is almost foolproof—mitigating risk and doubling down on reward when an opportunity presents itself. Understanding the ebb and flow... it's ebb and flow, not stop and go. Understanding trends, understanding the markets, How the culture of investing changes, and how the culture behind technology, the driving force, evolves organically as human needs and desires evolve and change. Some orthopedic doctors now specialize in conditions of the thumb due to gaming; many are multi-millionaires. Bob Marley says every need has an ego to feed. A few things stick out from those days of early investing, learning from The Young lieutenant, we had brief conversations here and there afterward, and I was on my way. Before he introduced me to stocks, I had already begun investing and trading in goods from Asia. Mostly Clothing, like leather jackets, brands like Hein Gericke, Harley-Davidson respectively, etc. I also got involved in technology and innovation. I had a good eye for small companies in Korea that manufactured high-quality products. Before the internet, it was all about trade journals and associations; I joined the KFTA, the Korean foreign trade association, in 1985 while still on active duty at fort Lewis. After leaving Fort Lewis, I remained interested in technology and innovation. I watched the KFTA transform into the KITA, the Korean international trade association. With that transformation, a digital and technology transformation,  I watched them transition from primarily intricate glossy trade journals to the digital landscape.

                            The Nexus
For me, this Nexus of technological innovation and the human interface started earlier than most; ADEA was the most technologically advanced "unit"in the military at that time...became known as skunkworks fort Lewis. I was known as Nomad, that was my call sign. I mentioned I served as a Forward observation laser team...FOLT Sergeant. My unit drove fast attack vehicles, an experimental vehicle that was a modified sandrail, from the Chenoweth racing team. Chenoweth had won the coveted Baja 1000 race. They contacted ADEA, and ADEA obviously fully embraced the idea. This champion buggy later became the desert patrol vehicle. In 1984,when I arrived our fire missions were digital and laser-guided. We had PLRS-satellite location navigation, NVG-night vision goggles, text messages, and emails, known as free text on the digital message devices, DMD, that we programmed the fire missions. A chunky yet compact little tablet-type device, it was capable of interfacing with newer radios, the laser, as well as older military radios like the PRC-77. Fort Lewis was a makers' Paradise at the time. Not only were there Skunkworks for official repairs and innovation on our military equipment.
Off duty, we also had a complete DIY workshop and garage setup on the post, with multiple large bays and enough shop and automotive mechanic tools to rival any local automotive repair facility or fabricators workshop. There was a staff of various retired Mechanics, Machinists, etc., who managed the DIY center. With Boeing and other aerospace industries in the area, there was a wealth of retired and current talent to pull. Applied both to skunk works and the DIY garage... I rebuilt my Ford Maverick I bought in Tacoma, Washington, in that garage. The highlight of this collective experience came in late 1985 when Skunk works Ft lewis and ADEA built a team of engineers, mechanics, and Baja racing experts from Chenoweth... rebuilt and modified every fast attack vehicle in the battalion, over 100 vehicles. We set up long two-sided assembly lines in a hanger. And hands-on, as soldiers, we rebuilt our assigned fast attack vehicles with guidance from Chenowth, mechanics and engineers. We dismantled every FAV, bolt by bolt, piece by piece, and rebuilt them... better.  Many of the innovations we built onto the vehicles resulted from deficiencies we soldiers noticed from years of hands-on testing in the field. The best R&d you could ever get. We fabricated structural side supports that also served as storage compartments, mud flaps, better gun turrets, and many other improvements. This interface was organic, almost seamless. Not only did the experience enrich my life experience, it was also a catalyst in my journey into technology, as a Maker and Founder. 

Here's a link from motor trend that I recently found.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1903-backward-glances-dune-buggy-with-teethchenowth-fast-attack-vehicle/

Black Feather Scout, CHIEF, continues the passion, adventure, coordination, purpose, the success,  From restoring a home from bones beyond its past glory into a present-day marvel. Or building an electric cycle that can climb a mountain, cross a stream, or ride the dunes, is akin to when I drove my renewed and improved fast-attack vehicle out of that hanger.