Jacob Wood
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Jake currently serves as President of Team Rubicon, the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America's returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging the donor through social media. By doing so, Team Rubicon is creating a new community of veterans focused on continued service in disaster relief and emergency preparedness.

Prior to the earthquake in Haiti, Jake served four years in the United States Marine Corps. He was the Honor Graduate of his platoon in boot camp at MCRD San Diego and continued his training at the Camp Pendleton School of Infantry. In 2007 he deployed with 2/7 to Iraq's Anbar Provice as a Fire Team Leader. Following his tour, Jake was awarded the Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal with "V" for valor in the face of the enemy.

Jake holds a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin with a double major in Business and Political Science.

Blog Entries by Jacob Wood

Veterans Are Assets, Not Liabilities

6 Comments | Posted November 11, 2011 | 13:53:02 (EST)

As we finally arrive at this momentous Veterans Day, marked by the date 11-11-11 and saddled by 10 years of war, we as a nation are still struggling to understand what it means to be a U.S. military veteran.

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the private workplace,...

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Care Package Patriotism

71 Comments | Posted November 11, 2011 | 09:28:44 (EST)


This Veterans Day weekend, Americans will gather to assemble care packages by the thousands for men and women deployed overseas. Like generations of citizen-volunteers, they are moved by noble impulses. They want to do a heartfelt thing for those in harm's way. They want to feel connected to...

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The Growing Divide Between Those Sharing the Sacrifice of War and Those Indifferent to it

Posted February 22, 2011 | 04:21:31 (EST)

Four years ago today I called my mother.

I was in Iraq. Bloodied. Cold. Sobbing. I called her because I had no one else; nobody that I could turn to that could extinguish the anguish I felt. At that moment I didn't want to be a Marine, or a...

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