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Colonel G.I. Wilson, USMC (ret), Joins Team Rubicon Board of Directors LOS ANGELES (2/8/11) – Team Rubicon is pleased to announce the addition of Colonel G.I. Wilson, USMC (ret) to the Board of Directors. "Colonel Wilson has 40 years of combined military and emergency services experience and is known for challenging the rigid conventional wisdom of bureaucracies. He is an intellectual iconoclast, championing dramatic innovations in the nation's security apparatus. As Team Rubicon develops and fields new modes of tackling disaster response, I know Colonel Wilson’s extensive experience coupled with his forward‐ looking perspective will be invaluable to us.” said William McNulty, Vice President and Team Rubicon Co‐Founder. Colonel G.I. Wilson, USMC (ret), is a combat veteran with 33 years of military service and several years of experience in law enforcement‐emergency services. He is widely published in professional journals, appears on national television, radio, and in documentaries. He coauthored the seminal paper “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation” (which coined the term “fourth generation warfare”). His personal military awards include Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and several Combat Action Ribbons. Colonel Wilson has B.A. in psychology from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.A. in Business and Organizational Security Management from Webster University, and an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University. According to Colonel Wilson, “Team Rubicon embodies the philosophy of the late Colonel
John Boyd, one of the nation’s greatest contemporary military thinkers and doers. Colonel Boyd believed we all come to a point in life where we must decide if we want ‘to be’ or ‘to do’ – do something for human kind, our country and others. Team Rubicon epitomizes the “to do”.” Team Rubicon reinvented medical relief following their response to the earthquake in Haiti using a military‐style deployment of a small, mobile unit of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and medics to survivors, many of whom would have otherwise died from their injuries. Their next mission is slated for February 2011 when surgeon, educator, and Team Rubicon veteran Dr. Glenn Geelhoed leads Team Rubicon to South Sudan to deliver on a medical peace initiative he brokered between two warring tribes in early 2010. # # # About Team Rubicon USA Team Rubicon bridges the critical time gap between large natural disasters and conventional aid response. They provide vanguard medical care by fielding small, self‐sustaining, mobile teams of skilled first‐responders, including combat veterans, firefighter/paramedics, and medical personnel. To deploy rapidly, they rely heavily on a horizontal command structure, social networking technology, and the employment of local nationals. For more about Team Rubicon visit www.teamrubiconusa.org Media Inquiries Kristin Robinson (913) 568‐8043 robinson@teamrubisonusa.org