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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.90,0:00:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two years ago,\Nafter having served four years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.76,0:00:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States Marine Corps
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.44,0:00:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deployed both to Irak and Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.65,0:00:22.56,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\Nand medical professionals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.66,0:00:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some of the hardest hit areas\Nof that city,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.90,0:00:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three days after the earthquake.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.42,0:00:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were going to the places\Nnobody else would go.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.79,0:00:34.79,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,\Nwe realized something -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,military veterans are very, very good\Nat 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: 0,0:00:46.42,0:00:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There are two problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.64,0:00:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first problem is\Nan inadequate disaster response.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.49,0:00:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's slow, it's antiquated.\NIt'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\Nthat we became aware of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.05,0:01:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a very inadequate\Nveteran reintegration.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.26,0:01:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the topic,\Nthat is a front page news right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.08,0:01:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As veterans are coming home right now,\Nfrom Iraq and Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.20,0:01:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are struggling\Nto reintegrate into civilian life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.94,0:01:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sat here and we looked\Ninto these two problems
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.31,0:01:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally we came to a realization.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.10,0:01:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These aren't problems,\Nthese are actually solutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.64,0:01:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do I mean by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.52,0:01:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can use disater response\Nas an opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.74,0:01:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for service for the veterans coming home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.75,0:01:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recent surveys show\Nthat 92 percent of veterans
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.100,0:01:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to continue the service\Nwhen they take off the uniform.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.91,0:01:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can use veterans\Nto improve disaster response.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.40,0:01:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, on the surface\Nthis makes a lot of sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.84,0:01:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our organization Team Rubicon\Nwas 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\Nto 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: 0,0:01:45.31,0:01:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shortly after the independence,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.84,0:01:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to train doctors\Nin simple surgical techniques.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.60,0:01:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was earlier this year,\Nwhen one of our original members,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.71,0:01:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused us to shift focus\Nin the organization.
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\Ntogether 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\Nin 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,\NClay 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 our organization,\Nbut 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: 0,0:02:22.07,0:02:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Clay didn't kill himself
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.82,0:02:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[because of] what happened\Nin Iraq or Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.53,0:02:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clay killed himself because\Nof what he lost when he came home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.20,0:02:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He lost purpose.\NHe lost his community.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.17,0:02:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And perhaps, most tragically,\Nhe lost his self-worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.11,0:02:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as we evaluated\Nand 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\Nof our organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.32,0:02:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were a disater response organization\Nthat 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 felt like we were changing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.94,0:02:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disaster response paradigm.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.45,0:03:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after Clay we shifted that focus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.71,0:03:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly, now moving forward,\Nwe 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: 0,0:03:09.34,0:03:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That might not seem\Nlike a major shift in focus
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.85,0:03:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for many people out here in this audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.90,0:03:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'll tell you why it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.31,0:03:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we think\Nthat we can give that purpose,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.53,0:03:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that community and that self-worth\Nback to the veteran.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.14,0:03:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And tornados in Tuscaloosa and Joplin\Nand then later hurricane Irene,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.72,0:03:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave us an 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\Nfor a second an 18-year-old boy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.57,0:03:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who graduates from high school\Nin Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.25,0:03:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army,\Nthe 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,,Every day he leaves the wire\Nwith a mission.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.03,0:03:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That mission is to defend the freedom\Nof 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\Nthat he works in.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.16,0:03:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's got a purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.20,0:03:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he comes home\Nto Kansas City, Missouri,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.24,0:03:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe he goes to college,\Nmaybe he's got a job,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.46,0:03:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he doesn't have\Nthat same sense of purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.78,0:03:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You give him a chainsaw and you send him\Nto Joplin, Missouri, after a tornado,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.52,0:04:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he regains that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.37,0:04:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going back, that same 18 year old boy\Ngraduates from highschool
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.40,0:04:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.83,0:04:06.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army,\Nthe army gives him a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.100,0:04:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they send him to Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.34,0:04:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day he looks into\Nthe same sets of eyes around him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.06,0:04:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he leaves the wire, he knows\Nthat those people have his back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.100,0:04:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've slept on the same sand,\Nthey've lived together,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.57,0:04:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've eaten together,\Nthey've bled together.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.83,0:04:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes home to Kansas City, Missouri.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.52,0:04:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gets out of the military,\Ntakes his uniform off.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.91,0:04:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't have that community anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.82,0:04:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you drop 25 of those veterans\Nin Joplin, Missouri,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.60,0:04:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get that sense of community back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.53,0:04:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, you have an 18 year old boy\Nwho graduates high school
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.45,0:04:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Kansas City.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.40,0:04:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He joins the army,\Nthe army gives him a rifle,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.65,0:04:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they send him to Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.94,0:04:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pin a medal on his chest,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.48,0:04:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he goes home to a ticker tape parade.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.56,0:04:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He takes the uniform off,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.34,0:04:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is no longer sergeant Jones\Nin his community,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.63,0:04:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's now Dave from Kansas City.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.20,0:04:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't have that same self-worth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.98,0:04:52.71,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\Nis 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\Nfor 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\Nin leadership in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.29,0:05:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And somebody needs to step up\Nas 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: 0,0:05:15.64,0:05:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and institutions of higher learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.52,0:05:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody needs to step up
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.78,0:05:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take that role\Nof leadeship in this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.09,0:05:22.56,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: 0,0:05:24.80,0:05:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this generation of veterans\Nhas the opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.20,0:05:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do that, if they are given the chance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.26,0:05:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.64,0:05:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)