Rewired Copper Company × Aerial Recovery
Copper doesn't retire. It gets rewired.
At Rewired Copper Company, we believe that everything—and everyone—is capable of renewal. Every bracelet we make starts as high-voltage wire that already did a hard job — pulled from service, coiled up, and written off as scrap. We forge it into something meant to last another thirty years.
We partner with Aerial Recovery because they're doing the same thing for people: giving veterans and first responders a second job worthy of what they already know how to do.
Photo courtesy of Aerial Recovery
Who they are
Aerial Recovery
Britnie Turner was twelve when a documentary on sex trafficking rearranged her sense of what she was supposed to do with her life. She spent her teenage years on mission trips to some of the hardest-hit parts of the world, and came home from each one more convinced that short-term aid wasn't the fix — the real work was building economic opportunity where none existed. So she started a real estate development company built around exactly that.
Britnie Turner, before Aerial Recovery existed — courtesy of Aerial Recovery
Jeremy Locke, 20-year Army Special Forces veteran — courtesy of Aerial Recovery
In 2017 she bought a small island in the British Virgin Islands, meant to become a sanctuary for healing. Ten days apart, Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit it instead — two of the strongest storms ever recorded, back to back. What she saw in the aftermath wasn't just the damage. It was how slow and disorganized the response to it was, even from people who genuinely wanted to help. She made a documentary about it to connect the people who cared with the people who needed them, and realized the model could work anywhere disaster struck.
Two years later, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, and she brought along her boyfriend at the time, Jeremy Locke — a 20-year Army Special Forces veteran. Within hours of arriving at a relief effort that was, by all accounts, struggling to function, Jeremy had it organized and moving. Britnie watched him come alive doing it. Not performing competence — actually finding purpose in it, in a way she hadn't seen from him before.
It became personal not long after, when Jeremy went through the disability evaluation that comes with military retirement. The process reduced twenty years of service to a rating, and the label stuck in a way that surprised them both: a man who had led people out of some of the worst situations imaginable started struggling with the idea that his best years were already behind him. That contradiction — a hero who felt broken by the paperwork of leaving — is the reason Aerial Recovery exists in its current form. Since then, their teams have carried out disaster relief, anti-trafficking, and animal rescue missions worldwide, and helped rescue more than 8,000 people over the past three years.
Their program
Heal the Heroes
The program isn't built to fix something broken in a veteran or first responder. It's built to repurpose what's already there — the training, the discipline, the instinct to run toward a problem — toward a mission that still needs exactly those skills. It runs a full year, in four phases, and every seat in it is fully sponsored. No one in the program pays for their spot.
The healing retreat
An immersive stretch at The Aerial in the BVI, built around equine therapy at Redemption Ranch, community, and expert-led work meant to clear out the noise and help each person find their center again.
Mentorship
Twelve weeks organized around what Aerial Recovery calls the Strong 6: physical, financial, relational, mental, spiritual, and experiential strength.
Force for good entrepreneurship education
Training built to turn hard-earned military and first-responder skills into a second career — as a Humanitarian Special Operator.
The Heroes' Community, for life
Graduates join a standing network that deploys to disaster zones and anti-human-trafficking operations around the world, for as long as they want to stay involved.
What we've committed to
One hero, fully funded, in 2027
A year in Heal the Heroes costs money, and none of it comes from the person going through it — every seat is covered by sponsors. Rewired Copper Company has committed to raising the full cost of one veteran's year in the program.
What wearing one does
Where the purchase actually goes
of every purchase goes directly to Aerial Recovery
Not a promotional percentage held out for a campaign window — it's built into the price of every bracelet, every time.
Wear one, gift one
Every bracelet you give someone else carries the same story forward, and moves us that much closer to the $15,000.
“You're wearing wire that already proved what a second life looks like. Every purchase moves someone else a little closer to theirs.”