Team Rubicon

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Team Rubicon
Type Non-governmental organization
Founded 2010
Founder(s) William McNulty, Jacob Wood
Headquarters
Area served Worldwide
Focus(es) Disaster Relief, Medical Support
Volunteers 14,000+
Employees 21
Motto Bridge the Gap
Website teamrubiconusa.org

Team Rubicon is an American Non-Government Organization (NGO) founded by retired U.S. Marines William McNulty and Jacob Wood.[1] Team Rubicon's mission is to unite the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. Team Rubicon formed in January 2010 following the Haiti earthquake, when McNulty and Wood led a medical team into Port-au-Prince three days after the quake. On the streets of Port-au-Prince, TR's military veterans realized a simple truth-natural disasters present many of the same problems that confront troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: unstable populations, limited resources, and uncertain information. The skills cultivated on those same battlefields-emergency medicine, risk assessment and mitigation, teamwork, and decisive leadership-are invaluable in disaster zones.

Since the Haiti earthquake, Team Rubicon has deployed on other international operations including Pakistan, Chile, Burma, Sudan, and Turkey. Domestically, Team Rubicon responded to the Midwest tornado outbreak, Branson, MO tornado, the Dallas area tornadoes, Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Debby, Hurricane Isaac, Hurricane Sandy, and the tornado destruction of Moore, Oklahoma. The Team's role in domestic disasters is both to provide timely humanitarian assistance and as an outlet to let veterans continue to serve. They call this bridging the gap, and are motivated in part by the suicide of an early member Clay Hunt.

General (Ret.) David Petraeus joined Team Rubicon's Board of Advisors in 2013 [2][3]

Team Rubicon is organized after the FEMA model into ten regions. Region I includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Region II includes New York and New Jersey. Region III includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Region IV includes Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Region V includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Region VI includes Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Region VII includes Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. Region VIII includes North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah. Region IX includes California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii. Region X includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Team Rubicon is also a nonprofit partner of the Got Your 6 campaign [4]

See also

Clay Hunt Fellows Program

  • Strategic Litigation Services
  • Duane Smith, CPS Disaster Response/Insurance Fraud Mitigation Advisor (Inter-Insurance Bureau)

References

  1. ↑ "TED Speakers", "TED.com" February 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Eleanor Goldberg, "David Petraeus Volunteers With Team Rubicon, Mission Continues, Other Organizations To Help Vets Reintegrate", "The Huffington Post", April 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Ben Smith, Emily Orley "General David Petraeus’ New Campaign", "Buzzfeed" April 28, 2013
  4. ↑ Tim Molloy "Hollywood Unites Behind ‘Got Your 6′ Initiative for Veterans", "The Wrap" May 9, 2012

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