Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Mission Update. Ryan’s dumbass move number 1 for the trip but a great lessons learned!!!!!! Respect curfew and remember, always and especially in a country at war, obey Law Enforcement direction and commands. Regardless of the country you are in, most likely you’re going to be just fine if you do that, even after curfew🤣
Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Mission. Made it across the border with some extra cargo, Diapers! They are in high demand and we had the room, so let’s load up.
Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Mission update. Made it to Krakow Poland.
Got my car that was donated for the trip to Kyiv by Anya and YWAMKiev and checked into my hotel. Ready to head out tomorrow, get over and start helping others.
Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Mission Update
Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Mission Update. Another addition to the family one CEIA V1 mine detector and first aid kits. Donations are at 60% which is awesome! Please keep spreading the word! Link is in my bio or below https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2321545762439168480&created=1658012979
Tip of the Spear two year anniversary.
Lots has happened since I launched my book and it’s been a crazy two year ride. Stay tune for Tip of the Spear to possibly make a big screen appearance.
Help Support Landmine Removal in Ukraine!
I will be heading back to Ukraine for another humanitarian mission for boobytrap and landmine retrieval. We really need your support! Please donate and sharing this information.

Your donation is directly impacting the safety and security of many around the world that are living in fear of their next step. Help our organization remove these explosive hazards by donating today!
$60,000 is the base cost and will go towards landmine detectors and removal equipment, transportation, mission operating costs, and cost of living. The more money we raise, the more we can expand our de-mining operations. The next projected dates for the de-mining mission will be in November-December 2022. Please be praying and sharing, so this vision can become a reality. Thank you for all of the support!
We are looking to purchase and bring 20 landmine detectors, but the cost for those alone is $45,000. I am also working on launching an official non-profit to establish a permanent base for Tip of the Spear de-mining missions all over the world. Any amount you can contribute will be a huge blessing for us.
More About the Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal Project for Ukraine

This past February, when Russia invaded Ukraine, I felt a calling to do something. I wasn’t sure what, but this calling kept getting stronger every day. So finally, in mid-March, I decided to quit my job and head to Ukraine. I am a retired US Army Special Forces Green Beret with Eight combat deployments to Afghanistan, so I wasn’t interested in fighting. Instead, I wanted to make a difference in another way. That difference came from a humanitarian mission with a missionary group called YWAM. As a Christian, I believe God’s hand has guided me in this endeavor, but I had no idea what to expect. Going in unarmed and helping was a bit different than my standard deployments, but it felt right.

I left for Ukraine middle of March and hit the ground running. Whether we were picking families up from areas where the fighting was fierce or delivering food and life-sustaining goods to people who had lost everything, I felt like I had found my calling. But, during my two months in Ukraine, from Bucha, Irpin, Kharkiv, Severodonesks, and other dangerous locations, I saw a cruel reality of war, injuring and killing civilians daily; Landmines and boobytraps. Suddenly things hit close to home. In Afghanistan, I had spent most of my time on combat missions clearing the route of IEDs and mines as my ODA team would move to whichever target we had. I have found many IEDs and landmines during my eight deployments in Afghanistan, but there was one that almost ended everything for me.
On Sept 12th, 2010, I stepped on an IED while conducting a clearance operation which almost killed me. After a long but successful rehabilitation, I went back to Afghanistan on seven more deployments so I could do everything in my power to ensure my teammates and my Afghan counterparts never had to go through that pain. While in Ukraine, I saw the dangers these Ukrainian civilians face, and again I felt the calling to do something. I knew I had so much experience from my time in Afghanistan with a mine detector, and I felt like I could be helping these innocent people who were stuck in the middle of the war.
So after returning home on May 18th, I immediately started planning my next trip back. This trip will be a humanitarian mission only. I will be doing what I gained a lot of experience doing in Afghanistan, finding and removing landmines and boobytraps. My mission will go into these heavily mined areas to clear and remove these explosive hazards in villages and farming areas so the civilians can safely start to rebuild their lives again. I hope to be partnered with Ukrainian counterparts from the local area where I can do a little training on ground sign awareness, indicators, and other early warnings to keep them safe while also conducting mine removal operations.

As Ukrainians return to what’s left of their homes and villages, they face these dangers. People have survived the fighting only to now face landmines and boobytraps, injuring and killing civilians daily. Most have lost so much, if not everything, and all the people want to do is to pick the broken pieces of their lives up and move forward. Ukrainians have been driven by desperation to enter known minefields to fish, gather food, or collect firewood, only to be injured or killed by mines. Farmers working their fields hit landmines in their tractors as they cultivate the ground, and ranchers are grazing their livestock.

The Ukrainian military is so bogged down with the war effort that the clearance operations to make these villages safe for civilians often are neglected due to workforce shortages. The ugly fact is this; Ukraine is one of the most heavily mine-contaminated countries in the world and already had significant numbers of mines before the full-scale Russian invasion in February.
Both anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines, trip wire devices, and boobytraps were commonly planted by both Ukrainians and Russians before the intensification of the conflict this year. Moreover, landmines are indiscriminate: they inflict injury and death long after their military purpose has passed and ultimately terrorize the civilian population, cutting them off from using their land.
$25,000 is the base cost and will go towards landmine detectors and removal equipment, transportation, mission operating costs, and cost of living. The more money we raise, the more we can expand our de-mining operations.
The next projected dates for the de-mining mission will be in November-December 2022. Please be praying and sharing, so this vision can become a reality. Thank you for all of the support!
Tip of the Spear Mine Removel GroupÂ
Wanted to give an update on my planning progress heading back to Ukraine. This next trip will be a humanitarian mine and boobytrap removal mission. I am in the fundraiser process now for Tip of the Spear landmine Removal Group so please watch and spread the word. My linktr.ee is https://linktr.ee/rmhendricksonvlg
Thank you
RV A/C of course has to go out in the middle of a Florida summer
If the A/C in your RV is going to go out, sure glad it happened in the middle of summer in Florida and not November or December cause what fun is that? At least I got to show you all how a Wrong Step shirt looks all sweaty🤣
Heartbreaking destruction as Russian forces advance through areas like Severodonetsk where we recently deliver aid.
Although I’ve been home for 2 weeks, it’s a little gut check watching areas like Severodonetsk where on May 9th we delivered food, aid but mainly HOPE, fall to Russian forces as they push through Donbas.
Return mission to Ukraine to conduct demining operations in the planning stages. https://linktr.ee/rmhendricksonvlg
Mines, boobytraps and IEDs are injuring civilians daily. In the beginning stages of setting up a humanitarian demining team to head over and assist in these operations. Stay tune.