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Veteran Keeps Vow

In his column, veteran Dan Doyle shares the story of one friend's promise to a fellow Marine:

His name was Merlin Raye Allen. He was from that beautiful part of Wisconsin, way up north on the shores of Lake Superior. His best friend, Jeff Savelkoul, a fellow Marine, was a mid-westerner too, from Minnesota. Forty-six years ago, on July 30, 1967, they were 20-year olds, part of an 8-man Recon team being flown on a CH-46A to a landing zone where they would commence their reconnaissance mission.

— Hear the Rest of the Tale —

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Training Veterans to Provide Disaster Response

Team Rubicon's unique program simultaneously addresses two issues. Rather than focusing on vocational training that attempts to teach new job skills, Team Rubicon repurposes veterans' existing skills—emergency medicine, risk assessment and mitigation, teamwork and decisive leadership—to solve another need: more effective disaster response.

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Turning Veterans into Volunteers

Since its creation in January 2010, Team Rubicon has impacted thousands of lives — in Haiti, Chile, Burma, Pakistan, Sudan, and in the United States. Whether responding to natural disasters in Vermont or the Sudan, Team Rubicon's volunteers help victims outside the scope of traditional aid organizations.

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