After helping coordinate one of the U.S. military’s most chaotic evacuation operations, Tauheed “Ty” Wood found a new mission back home in Fayetteville to help travelers get where they need to go.
His Fayetteville-based company Shuttle Buddy provides shuttle rides from Fayetteville to Raleigh-Durham International Airport and is approaching its two-year anniversary.
Military career and evacuation
Long before launching Shuttle Buddy, Wood spent more than a decade serving in the Army.
Originally from Houston, he joined the Army in 2009 from a military processing station in Baltimore, followed by attending basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and individual training at Fort Gordon…