Who are you gonna call when your town is ravaged by fire or flood? The answer increasingly is Team Rubicon, a volunteer band of ex-Canadian Forces personnel who have stepped up to help restore local economies and get people back into their homes in the wake of a disaster like the Lytton fire or the floods in the Fraser Valley.
“Canada is going to be seeing a lot more of us in future years,” said Bryan Riddell, a veteran who served for over a decade in the Canadian Armed Forces, including seven years in the Special Operations Command, deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq. Riddell is now chief executive of Team Rubicon Canada, which is an offshoot of a U.S. non-profit established by Marines sent to rebuild Haiti after the destructive earthquake in 2010.
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