Veteran Shredding KS

11/11/2024

We appreciate the sacrifice, service, and valor of all of our military - past and present. May America always remember and appreciate our Armed Forces.
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11/10/2023

Land of the Free,
because of the brave!

01/05/2023

Set up a routine service to keep your office clutter free. Our team will pick up your documents on a regular basis and securely destroy them at our secure shredding facility.

11/11/2022

01/22/2022

Time to get organized and start cleaning old documents out. Let us help keep your business confidential!

Veteran Shredding is a service minority owned and operated small business. We offer paper and electronic shredding service to the greater Wichita area.

01/12/2022

Time to get organized and start cleaning old documents out. Let us help keep your business confidential!

12/22/2021

We are in the Holiday spirit here at Vet Shredding of KS!
Merry Christmas!

11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

11/11/2021

A heartfelt THANK YOU to the people who have fought & continue fighting for our freedom! 🇺🇸

05/31/2021

This is a picture the Defense Department has never let the public see until now. This is a behind-the-scenes look at Dover Air Force Base where the bodies of fallen service members are prepared for burial. That includes being properly dressed, all the way down to the smallest detail.

In this picture, Staff Sgt. Miguel Deynes is making sure the uniform is just right for a U.S. Army pilot who was recently killed in Afghanistan.

There is a very specific process once a fallen service member is returned home. The bodies are flown back to the United States on a cargo jet. A team of service members wearing white gloves carry the flag-draped coffins to a white van that takes them to the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.

The remains are washed, hands are scrubbed clean, and hair is shampooed. If necessary, the bones are wired together and damaged tissue is reconstructed with flesh-toned wax. Sometimes, they will use photos. Sometimes, they just intuition to recreate the wrinkles in the faces and the lines around the mouth or the corner of the eyes.

“It has to look normal, like someone who is sleeping.”

Once the body is ready then the uniform is prepared. That includes putting medals in the proper order on the ribbon rack above the uniform’s breast pocket.

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 10 to 20 bodies were arriving every day.

The embalmers often worked all night to get the bodies home on time. This can take an emotional toll on them, so the mortuary has a large gym to allow workers to blow off steam. Many say they are haunted by how young the fallen soldiers are and by how many of them leave behind small children. That’s why Sgt. Deynes says they are advised not to do research into the backgrounds of the soldiers.

“If I knew the story of every individual who went through here, I would probably be in a padded cell.”

The dress uniform being prepared in this particular case will be in a closed casket. Even so, it will be perfectly tailored, starched and pressed. Everything will be checked down to the last detail.

Sgt. Deynes says, “[The family is] not going to see it. I do it for myself. It’s more than an honor. It’s a blessing to dress that soldier for the last time.”

Memorial Day is about these service members and the families they left behind.
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(Originally Posted by Marine WO2 Sherman Gillums, Jr.)

05/07/2021

It’s National Nurses Week and we want to say THANK YOU to all of the amazing nurses out there. We are blessed & very proud to have 3 Superheroes in our family!