TRUSSVILLE, Ala. - A nonprofit organization that provides special homes for severely wounded U.S. service members is planning to build a home in Trussville for an Army staff sergeant immobilized by a helicopter crash more than two years ago in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Scot Noss' wife, Ryann, said she would like to have her husband moved in by Christmas.

"Right now, we're just trying to lock in the land," Noss said. "They're in negotiations as we speak."

Scot Noss, now 31 and formerly of Lebanon, Ore., suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in February 2007 when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed in southeastern Afghanistan.

Noss met Ryann in 2001, before 9/11, while he was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. She was a chemical engineering student at Auburn University. She recently earned her doctorate in chemical engineering, balancing her studies with helping care for her husband.

The Nosses were married in 2003. In word and deed, Ryann Noss said, her husband made her "the queen of his world." With her encouragement, the former Lebanon High School football star became addicted to Southern barbecue.

Deployments were a regular part of the couple's life as well. When he went down in the helicopter in 2007, Scot was on his eighth mission since 9/11.

For the past two years, he has been at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa. He cannot meaningfully communicate, and he occasionally makes slight movements on the left side of his body.

Noss' condition made him a suitable candidate for a home built by Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization based in Taunton, Mass.

Homes for Our Troops raises the money to buy the site for the home and draws upon skilled local volunteers and locally donated supplies to build it. The dwelling's design is based on the medical condition of the service member who will live there.

So far, Homes for Our Troops has built 40 houses nationwide and 30 more are slated to be built this year.

As planned, the Noss home will take up about 2,400 square feet and have four bedrooms and two bathrooms and a handicapped accessible floor plan.

HOW TO HELP

What: Garage sale with proceeds going to Homes for Our Troops, which is building a home for former Lebanon man Scot Noss.

When: Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Free Methodist Church, 580 F St., Lebanon.

Info: (541) 258-6520.

To make a donation: Send to Lebanon Free Methodist Church, 580 F St., Lebanon, OR 97355, designated for Scot Noss.