Team Rubicon was launched in 2010, when Marine veteran Jake Wood and William McNulty put together a small team of veterans and medical professionals and travelled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The area had been devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, and although the world helped as much as it could, traditional relief agencies weren’t able to reach all affected areas. But the veterans who made up that early version of Team Rubicon had both military and medical training, and they applied those skills to reach people in the outlying areas that hadn’t yet received aid. Seven years later, Team Rubicon has more than 65 full-time employees and over 45,000 volunteers. Together, the group has responded to nearly 200 disasters all over the world. “We tend to go to places where people don’t have the resources or the ability to respond in a way that is needed -- that’s where our volunteers.