The Iraq War Veterans Organization, or IWVO, was founded on April 12, 2003, by Russell K. Terry and William T. Hutchison.
[2] In late 2004, the IWVO began planning with Challenge Aspen, an adaptive sports organization based in Aspen Colorado, for a winter ski clinic to benefit IWVO members who were wounded in the war.
[3] IWVO National Legislative Director Daniel Rosenthal organized the trip, and within three weeks of its conception, six soldiers, sailors and marines attended the clinic.
Five of the sailors and marines were from Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego, CA.
[4] In 2007 the IWVO criticized former United States Army Surgeon General Gale Pollock.