The photo above is from the Team Rubicon website.
Team Rubicon organizes veterans to provide relief to those affected by natural disasters, both domestic and international. Their mission is to “unite the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.” Much of what they do is volunteer work, but they have been busy lately training veterans to fill various firefighting roles. Several groups of Team Rubicon folks have gone through basic wildland firefighter training. A typical class is described in a blog on their website.
Today we saw a tweet about one of their fire classes and in looking around, found quite a few more that were related.
Helo training this weekend in Mississippi. That’s amore. https://t.co/xNHehDllyy
— Team Rubicon USA (@TeamRubicon) February 14, 2016
@TeamRubicon veterans in GA & MS complete training today! Ready now for #BLMfire season. Congratulations! #Veterans pic.twitter.com/Og9142cdOC
— BLM Eastern States (@BLM_ES) February 15, 2016
Deep South Chill- @TeamRubicon #BLMFire training begins in GA with the Work Capacity Test. Awesome being to class! pic.twitter.com/BgzQ5I4Omu
— BLM Eastern States (@BLM_ES) February 12, 2016
Special thanks to our friends @USFWS and @CaseCE for another great weekend of @TeamRubicon heavy equipment training pic.twitter.com/GJjjuBlcQG
— David Venables (@DavidWVenables) February 14, 2016
#TeamRubicon and the #BLM conducting fire training in the San Juan Islands. #BLMcareers #BLMproud #seeOregon https://t.co/AX8CFcznh5
— BLM Oregon (@BLMOregon) July 16, 2015
Team Rubicon vets fought a different foe last summer: wildland fire.
More join: Apple Valley https://t.co/hGN7qyyWR4 pic.twitter.com/bw2EbD7oMP— BLM California (@BLMca) January 19, 2016
