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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.90,0:00:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two years ago, after having served four years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.92,0:00:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States Marine Corps
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.03,0:00:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deployed both to Irak and Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.99,0:00:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself in Port-au-Prince
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.56,0:00:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leading a team of veterans and medical professionals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.66,0:00:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some of the hardest hit areas of that city,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.68,0:00:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three days after the earthquake.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.42,0:00:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were going to the places nobody else would go.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.09,0:00:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The places nobody else could go
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.79,0:00:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after three weeks, we realized something --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,military veterans are very, very good at disaster response.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.96,0:00:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And coming home, my co-founder and I,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.08,0:00:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we looked at it, we said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.42,0:00:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There are two problems. The first problem is an Inadequate Disaster Response.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.49,0:00:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's slow, it's antiquated. It's not using the best technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.52,0:00:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not using the best people."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.58,0:01:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second problem that we became aware of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.05,0:01:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a very inadequate veteran reintegration.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.26,0:01:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the topic, that is a front page news right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.30,0:01:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those veterans are coming home right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.25,0:01:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Iraq and Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.86,0:01:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are struggling to reintegrate into civilian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.29,0:01:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sat here and we looked into these two problems
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.84,0:01:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally we came to a realization.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.14,0:01:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These aren't problems, these are actually solutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.68,0:01:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do I mean by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.65,0:01:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can use disater response as an opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.73,0:01:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for service for the veterans coming home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.01,0:01:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recent surveys show that 92 percent of veterans
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.45,0:01:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to continue the service when they take off the uniform.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.32,0:01:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can use veterans to improve disaster response.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.28,0:01:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, on the surface this makes a lot of sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.84,0:01:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our organisation Rubicon was born in 2010,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.27,0:01:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we responded to the tsunami in Chile,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.22,0:01:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the floods in Pakistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.16,0:01:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we sent training teams to the Thai - Burma border.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.55,0:01:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to South Sudan,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.31,0:01:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shortly after the independence,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.35,0:01:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to train doctors and support surgical techniques.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.60,0:01:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was earlier this year, when one of our original members,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.71,0:01:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused us to shift focus in the organisation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.80,0:01:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Clay Hunt.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.49,0:02:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay was a Marine with me, we served together in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.88,0:02:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We served in the same sniper team in the Helmand Valley in 2008.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.31,0:02:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay was with us in Port-au-Prince,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.43,0:02:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was also with us in Chile.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.21,0:02:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earlier this year, in March, Clay took his own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.85,0:02:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a tragedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.77,0:02:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It rocked out the organisation, but it really forced us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.44,0:02:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to refocus what it is that we were doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.07,0:02:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Clay didn't kill himself [because of] what happened in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.41,0:02:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay killed himself bacasue of what he lost when he came home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.20,0:02:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He lost purpose. He lost his community.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.17,0:02:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And perhaps, most tragically, he lost his self-worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.11,0:02:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as we evaluated and as the dust settled from this tragedy --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.93,0:02:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we realized that, of those two problems,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.87,0:02:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the initial iteration of our organisation,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.32,0:02:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were a disater response organisation that was using veteran's service.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.66,0:02:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had a lot of success
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.89,0:02:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we really thought like we were changing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.94,0:02:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disaster response paradigm.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.45,0:03:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after Clay we shifted that focus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.14,0:03:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly, now moving forward, we see ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.53,0:03:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a veteran service organisation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.94,0:03:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's using disaster response.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.34,0:03:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That might not seem like a major shift in focus for many people out here, in this audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.20,0:03:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'll tell you why it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.49,0:03:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we think that we can give that purpose,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.01,0:03:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that community and that self-worth back to the veteran.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.04,0:03:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And tornados in Tuscaloosa and Joplin and then later hurricane Irene,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.72,0:03:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave us the opportunity to look at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.14,0:03:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want you to imagine for a second an 18-year-old boy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.57,0:03:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who graduates from highschool in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.13,0:03:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army, the army gives him a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.61,0:03:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they send him to Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.88,0:03:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyday he leaves the wire with a mission.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.03,0:03:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That mission is to defend the freedom of the family that he left at home,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.75,0:03:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's to keep the man around him alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.85,0:03:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's to pacify the village that he works in.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.16,0:03:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's got a purpose. But he comes home to Kansas City, Missouri,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.96,0:03:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe he goes to college, maybe he's got a job,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.28,0:03:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he doesn't have that same sense of purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.26,0:03:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You give him a chainsaw and you send him to Joplin, Missouri, after a tornado,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.47,0:03:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he regains that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.36,0:04:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going back, that same 18 year old boy graduates from highschool in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.02,0:04:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army, army gives him a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.20,0:04:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they send him to Iraq --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.90,0:04:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyday he looks in the same set of eyes around him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.36,0:04:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he leaves the wire, he knows that those people have his back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.56,0:04:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've slept on the same sand, they've lived together,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.73,0:04:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've eaten together, they've bled together.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.83,0:04:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes home to Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.82,0:04:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gets out of military, takes his uniform off.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.91,0:04:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't have this community anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.60,0:04:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you drop 25 of those veterans in Joplin, Missouri,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.60,0:04:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get that sense of community back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.53,0:04:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, you have an 18 year old boy who graduates from highschool in Kansas City.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.60,0:04:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army, army gives him a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.09,0:04:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they send him to Iraq --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.94,0:04:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pin a medal on his chest,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.30,0:04:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he goes home to a ticker tape parade --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.56,0:04:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He takes the uniform off, he is no longer sergeant Jones in his community,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.64,0:04:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's now Dave from Kansas City.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.90,0:04:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't have that same self-worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.58,0:04:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you send him to Joplin after a tornado
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.71,0:04:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somebody once again is walking up to him
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.93,0:04:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shaking his hand and thanking him, for his service.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.64,0:04:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, they have self-worth again --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.98,0:05:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what? What's it mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.56,0:05:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's very important.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.84,0:05:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Becasue right now, there's a void in leadership in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.29,0:05:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And somebody needs to step up as we have corruption,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.53,0:05:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and scams on tops of industry and politics
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.64,0:05:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and institutions of higher learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.32,0:05:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we need to step up and take that role of leadeship in this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.46,0:05:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and move this country forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.56,0:05:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the direction that it's meant to move.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.80,0:05:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this generation of veterans has the opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.72,0:05:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do that, if they are given the chance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.26,0:05:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.32,0:05:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)