Storm Boen

He was medically retired from the army and started remembering his fondness of a good Premium Cigar, and started researching them and found a rich and beautiful world. 99% of cigar smokers he has found are some of the very best folks. The first time when he saw the Acronym BOTL, he asked what it was. He has explained the whole concept of what it meant to be a brother or Sister of the Leaf. It was exactly what he was looking for after having to leave the army and missing the camaraderie.
This led to being the founder of C.A.T.S., one of the most active Cigar Communities of over 10k strong.
From there met some amazing folks who had the same love for their Servicemembers that he does. He wanted to give them the best thank you. They could think of, a Premium Cigar. So 6 of their team founded Op: Cigars for Warriors, and now at 150 plus strong volunteers throughout the United States, They have made our mission a reality. What is amazing is they never dreamed that the simple thank you would have such a huge impact, letter after letter, meeting recipients who were redeployed back home, hearing and reading all of their gratitude really blew all of them away. He soon discovers that Cigars are the number 1 requested item from deployed troops. Not only that in the last 10 years cigar smokers in the military have exponentially blown up. There are massive communities, Clubs, etc that are worldwide with large chapters. Military chaplains and psychologists even started requesting from him because they found his Company would become a lot more approachable with cigars in their hands.
Could talk about CFW for hours. Learn more about the beautiful charity at Cigarsforwarriors.org.
From there started a large Cigar Festival, called C.A.T.S. Festival. It has morphed into something very special and extremely unique. Two main focus drives the festival. To give back to the cigar smoking community and more importantly support Op: CFW. CHECK it out at CATSfestival.com.