GERRY BYRNE JAKE WOOD ZACH ISCOL CO-CHAIRS PROUDLY PRESENT THE 23rd ANNUAL VIRTUAL GALA IN CELEBRATION OF

THE 245th MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY BENEFITTING TEAM RUBICON & THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT NOVEMBER 10, 2020

PRODUCED BY THE 23rd ANNUAL (VIRTUAL) GALA IN CELEBRATION OF THE 245th UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY BENEFITTING TEAM RUBICON & THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT

Pluto TV, we love you!! And thank you to the team at the ViacomCBS Veterans Network for your incredible support in producing our virtual 245th United States Marine Corps Birthday Gala. We are again pleased and honored that this evening benefits the works of Team Rubicon and The Headstrong Project. We gather to honor our Corps as well as all of those heroes in the uniformed services committed and devoted to protecting our nation. We can’t say thank you enough to those who have served and COURAGE. those who are, at this very moment, in harms way on behalf of us all. We are privileged to have General David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps as our Military Guest of COMMITMENT. Honor. Tonight we also present the Allen J. Striffler USMC “Marine For Life” Award to Joseph Dunford, an exemplary Marine who served as our 36th Commandant and as our nation’s 19th Chairman of Gerry, Zach and Jake aboard the CHARACTER. USS Kearsarge, May 2017 the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Congratulations, General Dunford. This year we add a new award which will be presented ViacomCBS is proud to salute the U.S. Marine Corps annually and in perpetuity at the Gala, the Honorable David on 245 years of extraordinary service to our country. Dinkins Vanguard Honor. The Montford Point Marines are our first recipient. And to our Master of Ceremonies, CBS Correspondent, Jim Axelrod, thank you immensely for being the voice of the evening. Finally, our gratitude to our national audience of Birthday celebrants and to everyone who has helped make this celebration a memorable tribute to our family of Marines.

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DINNER CO-CHAIRS GERRY BYRNE* JAKE WOOD* ZACH ISCOL* Delivering DINNER COMMITTEE KEVIN AINSWORTH* SUNI HARFORD ROB RIGGLE* WALTER ANDERSON* TODD HASKINS* BOB PARSONS* excellence. COL. H. C. “BARNEY” BARNUM*# SCOTT HIGGINS RENEE PARSONS At FedEx, we recognize what it ED BORAN* JAY PENSKE WILLIAM HOGAN* takes to be the best you can be and MICHAEL BOYD JACK JACOBS# CHRIS PERKINS* celebrate those who exemplify that LT. GEN. MARK BRILAKIS (RET)* GENERAL JAMES JONES* CHARLES PHILLIPS* winning spirit. We’re proud to show PETER CAMPBELL BROWN* RICHARD JONES RICHARD PLEPLER PAUL BUCHA# JAMES K. KALLSTROM* DAVE RAY* our support for the United States RON BUCKHAMMER* TOM KANE* COL. MATTHEW REID* Marine Corps, and salute those with JIM BUCKMAN GREG KELLY* PAT REILLY* the drive to keep pushing forward. GAVIN BYRNE HON. RAYMOND W. KELLY* HOWARD SAFIR* MEGAN BYRNE MAJ, GEN. PAUL KENNEDY (RET)* RICHARD SALOMON PATRICK CARROLL* ROBERT KENNEDY* JOHN SCANLON* HON. RONALD D. CASTILLE* LAURA LANDRO* ROBERT SEIGNIOUS* LT. GEN. MIKE DANA (RET.)* MARSHALL LAUCK* JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY* JOHN DOMAN* BOB LAWLER* FREDERICK W. SMITH* ANNE MARIE DOUGHERTY SCOTT LEONARD* LT. GEN. MARTY STEELE (RET.)* KEVIN DOUGHERTY* DOROTHY LEWIS* SOPHIE STENBECK ADAM DRIVER* JOE LISI* DENNIS SWANSON* ARCHIE DRURY* JEFFREY MAST* AL THOMPSON* PETER DUNEV* PHIL McCONKEY NICK VERBITSKY* DAVID EIGENBERG* WILLIAM McGORRY* WARREN WASP* ARMANDO ESPINOZA* DOUG McGOWAN* JIM WEBB* KEN FISHER VINCE McGOWAN* MICHAEL WEISER* PETER FITZPATRICK* DAN McSWEENEY* CALEB WEISS* KIM FOLEY* RON MEYER* OWEN WEST* KATHLEEN GATES ERIC MIKA CHRIS WILKENS* COL. TOM GORDON* LT. GEN. ROBERT “BOOMER” MILSTEAD* BOB WOODRUFF ART GORMAN* THOR O’CONNELL* LEE WOODRUFF PATRICK HACKETT* MIKE O’ROURKE* ROB HANKE* GEORGE OLSEN* HARVEY KEITEL*CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

*USMC #CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT

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MARINE CORPS REMARKS GERRY BYRNE, JAKE WOOD, ZACH ISCOL

ADVANCE THE COLORS

THE 245th USMC BIRTHDAY CAKE CUTTING CEREMONY MARINE CORPS BARRACKS, WASHINGTON, DC.

MUSICAL INTERLUDE THE UNITED STATES MARINE DRUM & BUGLE CORPS

MILITARY GUEST OF HONOR GENERAL DAVID H. BERGER 38th COMMANDANT, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

HONORABLE VANGUARD HONOR SEMPER FIDELIS THE MONTFORD POINT MARINES INAUGURAL AWARD RECIPIENT

INTRODUCED BY MAURICE DUBOIS & CINDY HSU Congratulations to PRESENTED TO DAVID DINKINS JR.

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. THE CORPORAL ALLEN J. STRIFFLER 2020 USMC MARINE FOR LIFE AWARD Marine for Life GENERAL JOSEPH DUNFORD 19TH CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

PRESENTED BY GENERAL JAMES MATTIS 26TH SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

CLOSING

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MILITARY General David H. Berger assumed the duties of Commandant of GUEST OF the Marine Corps on July 11, 2019. A native of Woodbine, Maryland, General Berger graduated HONOR from Tulane University and was commissioned in 1981. He commanded at every level — including a Reconnaissance Company; 3d Battalion, 8th Marines in Haiti during Operation GENERAL SECURE TOMORROW; Regimental Combat Team 8 in Fallujah, Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. As a General Officer, he commanded 1st Marine Division DAVID H. (Forward) in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM; I Marine Expeditionary Force; U.S. Marine Corps Forces BERGER Pacific/Fleet Marine Forces Pacific; and Marine Corps Combat Development Command. 38TH COMMANDANT, UNITED STATES General Berger’s staff and joint assignments include serving MARINE CORPS as Assistant Division Commander of 2d Marine Division; policy planner in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, J-5; Chief of Staff for Kosovo Force (KFOR) Headquarters in Pristina, Kosovo; and Director of Operations in Plans, Policies, and Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration. General Berger’s formal military education includes the U.S. Army Infantry Officer Advanced Course, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and U.S. Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting. He holds multiple advanced degrees including a Master of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps performs martial and popular music for hundreds of thousands of Lorem ipsum spectators each year. The Corps of more than 80 Marine wish to acknowledge the creation of musicians, dressed in ceremonial red and white uniforms, is known world-wide as a premier musical marching unit. Throughout the summer months the unit performs in the traditional Friday Evening Parades held at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., and in Sunset Parades at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Monument) in Arlington, Va., every Tuesday evening. The Drum and Bugle Corps travels more than 50,000 miles annually, performing in excess of 400 events across the nation and abroad. The history of the unit can be traced to the early days of the Marine Corps. In the 18th and 19th centuries military musicians, or “field musics,” provided a means of passing commands to Marines in battle formations. The sound of various drum beats and bugle calls could be easily heard over the noise of the battlefield and signalled Marines to attack the enemy or retire for the evening. Through the 1930’s, Marine Corps posts still authorized a number of buglers and drummers to play the traditional calls and to ring a ship’s bell to signal the time. The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps was formed in 1934, at historic Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., to augment the United AND THE AWARD’S FIRST RECIPIENT States Marine Band. The unit provided musical support to ceremonies around the nation’s capitol and, during World War II, was additionally tasked with Presidential support duties. For this additional role, they were awarded the scarlet and gold breastcord by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which they now proudly display on their uniform. When the war ended, the Drum and Bugle Corps resumed performing at various military and public ceremonies. In the early 1950s the unit gained considerable acclaim performing for an increasing number of civilian audiences. Music composed specifically for their unique selection of instruments helped establish their reputation for excellence during this period. These factors also led to the unit’s formal designation as “The Commandant’s Own”—a title noting their special status as musicians for the Commandant of the Marine Corps. In the tradition of their “field music” predecessors, these musicians in “The Commandant’s Own” are Marines in the truest sense of the word. Every enlisted member is a graduate of Marine Corps recruit training and is trained in basic infantry skills. Prior to enlisting, each Marine must pass a demanding audition for service in the Drum and Bugle Corps. Following Recruit Training and Marine Combat Training, the Marines are assigned to “The Commandant’s Own.”

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avid Norman Dinkins served Chair in of Urban & as NYS Assemblyman, Public Affairs at SIPA (established DAVID President of the NYC Board in 2003) announced its inaugural of Elections, City Clerk professor, Michael A Nutter, 98th and Borough Mayor of ; the Columbia PresidentD before being elected 106th University Libraries and Rare Books DINKINS Mayor of the City of New York in 1989. launched and opened the David N. 106TH MAYOR OF THE As the first (and only) African Dinkins Archives and Oral History CITY OF NEW YORK American Mayor of NYC, major Project; and Mayor Dinkins was successes of note under his honored to perform narration of The PRIVATE FIRST CLASS, administration include: “Safe Streets, Lincoln Portrait at Carnegie Hall for USMC, MONTFORD Safe City: Cops and Kids”; the the first of three years in a row. His POINT MARINES revitalization of Times Square Screen Actor’s Guild membership is as we have come to know it; an a source of pride for Mayor Dinkins. unprecedented agreement keeping He was especially proud to hold a the US Open Tennis Championships guest appearance as a judge on Law in New York City for 99 years — a & Order-SVU in 2017 and then play contract that continues to bring more himself on Blue Bloods in 2018. financial influx to New York City Mayor Dinkins is an active than the Yankees, Mets, Knicks and participant on numerous Rangers COMBINED — comparable organizational boards — with his to having the Super Bowl in primary focus on youth, he also New York for two weeks every year! maintains regular engagements as a The Dinkins administration also featured speaker or award recipient created Fashion Week, Restaurant around the country. In 2013, Mayor Week, and Broadway on Broadway, Dinkins became a first time author which have all continued to thrive when, A Mayor’s Life: Governing for decades, attracting international New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic, was attention and tremendous revenue published. A memoir which chronicles to the city each year. the life of this devoted public servant Mayor Dinkins joined Columbia as a New Yorker who remains in love University’s School of International with his city. and Public Affairs (SIPA) as a Professor Born in Trenton, New Jersey, in in the Practice of Urban Public Policy July, 1927, David N. Dinkins graduated in 1994. He has hosted the David with honors from Howard University N. Dinkins Leadership & Public in 1950 with a B.S. in mathematics Policy Forum for 23 years which has and an LLB from Brooklyn Law School welcomed keynote speakers such as in 1956. He is a recipient of The Representative John Lewis; Secretary Congressional Gold Medal for his Hillary Rodham Clinton; NYC Mayor service as a Montford Point Marine ; and two US Attorney in the United States Marine Corps, Generals — Eric Holder and Loretta during World War II. David N. Dinkins Lynch. 2015 was a notable year for resides in New York City. Mayor Dinkins: the landmarked, Centre Street hub of New York City Government was renamed as the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building; the David N. Dinkins Professorship

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n 1940 while the United States prepared for war, millions of jobs HONORABLE DAVID DINKINS in the defense industry were being created. Blacks seeking VANGUARD HONOR jobs in the growing defense CREATED TO ANNUALLY RECOGNIZE A VISIONARY, Iindustries suffered violence and INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY, THAT’S BEEN A POSITIVE discrimination. Many black leaders, FORCE IN SHAPING THE CORPS including A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most widely known spokesperson for black working- class interests in the United States, met with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration to demand that he sign an executive order banning discrimination against black workers in the defense industry. Randolph threatened to bring tens of thousands of marchers to Washington, D.C. On June 25, 1941, days before the march was to occur, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which barred government agencies and federal contractors from refusing employment in industries engaged in defense production on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin. It was the first Presidential decree issued on THE MONTFORD POINT race since Reconstruction. The order Jean, and married to Isabell Arch. He and many NCOs at Montford Point from throughout the United States, required the armed services, including was sworn into the Marine Corp on were African Americans. they decided to establish the the Marine Corps, to recruit and enlist June 1, 1942 at 12:00 midnight with his Between 1942 and 1949, more Montford Point Marine Association African Americans wife by his side. Alfred Masters rose than 20,000 men were trained at as a nonprofit veterans organization, MARINES Recruiting for the “Montford to the rank of Technical Sergeant. Montford Point. In July 1948, despite to preserve military history and help INAUGURAL AWARD RECIPIENT Marines” began on June 1, 1942. The first black recruits received strong opposition from Democrats people in need. The association has Thousands of African American men, basic training at the segregated of the segregated South, President many chapters, and is a member of eager to serve, flocked to recruiting Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, Harry S. Truman signed Executive the Marine Corps Council, a council offices. However, several recruitment North Carolina. The 1,200 men in the Order 9981, which required the of Marine-related service groups. offices wanted to claim the honor of quota were housed in prefabricated desegregation of the military. In 1949 The Montford Point Marine having the first recruit, and on May huts. Racism continued in the Marine Montford Point was deactivated, and Association maintains archives, and 31, 1942 when a recruitment officer Corps after the issuance of Executive new black recruits were sent to Parris the Montford Point Marines Museum at happened to be on the same City Hall Order 9981, reflecting that in the Island and Camp Pendleton. During Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, Jacksonville, elevator in downtown Oklahoma City society. Railroad tracks divided white the Korean War, the United States North Carolina. It holds an annual with a young man wearing a Langston residents from the camp for African Marine Corps fully integrated. convention to celebrate the Montford College sweater, he asked him if he American troops, and the black In 1965, a reunion of Marines was Point Marines, make organizational would like to be the first Black Marine. recruits were not allowed to enter the held in Philadelphia which included decisions, and distribute scholarships. That young man was Alfred Masters. main base of nearby Camp Lejeune former Montford Point Marines along On 27 June 2012, the Congressional At the time, Mr. Masters was twenty-six unless accompanied by a white with Marines on active duty. With Gold Medal was awarded to the years old, had one daughter, Shirley Marine. By 1945, all drill instructors more than 400 Marines gathered Montford Point Marines.

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CORPORAL ALLEN J. STRIFFLER USMC Marines Brooklyn born Allen Striffler joined the Marines 1943 at age 17. Post training at Parris Island, New River and Camp Pendleton, he deployed to the 4th Marine Division. Four invasions as a field radio operator followed: Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Wounded on Iwo, D plus 4, February 23, 1945, he saw the flag on Mt. Suribachi Congratulations to from the beach while waiting to be evacuated to a hospital ship. He returned to Iwo Jima two days later and remained in combat until the island was secured. GENERAL JOSEPH DUNFORD When the war ended, Corporal Striffler was sent to China to finish his enlistment. Honorably discharged in 1946, Mr. Striffler got his GED our latest and then attended Long Island and Columbia Universities. His career in the oil and shipping industries began at Standard Oil (1946-1949). He MARINE FOR LIFE. retired as the President and CEO of Greenwich Marine Transportation of Greenwich, Connecticut. Mr. Striffler’s personal decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and the Combat Action Ribbon. On June 26, 2014 Allen entered “heaven’s scene” to join that special Marine guard detail. As a Marine, husband, father, and friend, no one stood taller. He, indeed, was and is our “MARINE FOR LIFE” Semper fi, and will be from this day forward. Loretta & Walter Anderson

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THE CORPORAL General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. served as the 19th Chairman of the ALLEN J. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of STRIFFLER Defense, and National Security Council from October 1, 2015, 2020 USMC through September 30, 2019. MARINE FOR Prior to becoming Chairman, General Dunford served as the 36th LIFE AWARD Commandant of the Marine Corps. He previously served as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps from 2010 to 2012 and was Commander, International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan from February 2013 to August 2014. GENERAL A native of Boston, Massachusetts, General Dunford graduated from Saint Michael’s College and was commissioned in 1977. He JOSEPH has served as an infantry officer at all levels, to include command of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, and command of the 5th Marine Regiment during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. DUNFORD General Dunford also served as the Assistant Division Commander 19TH CHAIRMAN OF THE of the 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Director of Operations, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF and Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations. He commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force and served as the Commander, Marine Forces U.S. Central Command. His Joint assignments include duty as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of the Global and Multilateral Affairs Division (J-5), and Vice Director for Operations on the Joint Staff (J-3). A graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School, Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, and the U.S. Army War College, General Dunford also earned master’s degrees in Government from Georgetown University and in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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The Intrepid Museum, USO, Veterans Advantage (Advisory Board), The Bob Woodruff Foundation, Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Plaza, The Creative Coalition, The Hamptons International Film Festival (Chairman, Advisory Board), The IFP — Independent Filmmaker Project, The John A. Reisenbach Foundation (Chairman), and The Armory Foundation. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Fordham University Gabelli School and the Board of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In November 2012, Mr. Byrne also launched, as Founder/ Chairman, the first ever Veterans Week NYC, a series of events dedicated to honoring and supporting veterans and their families. And in May 2017, as Founder/Chairman, Mr. Byrne launched Veterans on Campus NYC, a veteran’s support consortium comprised of all the NYC Happy Birthday Marine Corps colleges and universities where veterans attend on the GI Bill. Mr. Byrne was awarded the NYPD Thank You Marine Corps Association 2002 “Semper Fi” Award for his work in the General David H. Berger community. And in June 2009, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented FOUNDING erry, a proud Marine Corps Mr. Byrne the “Made In NY” Award Congratulations and a native New Yorker, for his support of Gotham’s CHAIR together with actor and entertainment and media industries. General Joseph Dunford fellow Marine, Harvey Keitel, In November 2017, General Robert created this Marine Birthday Neller, Commandant of the Marine GalaG 22 years ago to celebrate the Corps, presented Mr. Byrne the Semper Fi GERRY Corps’ legacy in a City that is, indeed, Department of the Navy’s Meritorious the Capital of the World. Public Service Award. And in March The Honorable David Dinkins PMC owns leading entertainment, 2019, he was named to the Hillvets fashion, art and digital media brands 100. Hillvets is a DC based initiative The Montford Point Marines BYRNE that include , Variety, seeking to amplify the power and VICE CHAIRMAN, PMC WWD, , The presence of veterans in government, (PENSKE MEDIA CORP) Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Vibe, policy, and politics. GERRY BYRNE The and . A 1966 graduate of Fordham & A staunch believer in “participation,” College, Mr. Byrne served as a Marine FIRST PLATOON, A COMPANY, CLASS 1-67 Mr. Byrne is on the boards of Officer in Vietnam in 1968/69 and numerous not-for-profits including was awarded the Navy Achievement Fisher House (Executive Committee), Medal with Combat V. THE BASIC SCHOOL Quantico, Virginia

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faces a healthcare crisis, Zach brings Most recently, as the COVID crisis experience from both a mental devastated NYC, Zach was compelled healthcare organization and a COVID to help. He went to the Javits Medical hospital. As New Yorkers navigate Center to volunteer and, in just 48 an economic crisis, Zach brings hours, he was asked to step in as experience from building successful Deputy Director. There, he worked with businesses and making payroll. nurses and doctors, and coordinated And as New York reels from a crisis 16 federal, state, and city agencies of public trust, from policing to City to take the center from treating zero Hall, Zach has created a culture of COVID patients to almost 1,100. As one of the nation’s leading mental health treatment accountability when lives are very These experiences, and what much at stake. he’s learned from them, make Zach practices for post-9/11 veterans, military service His first formative lessons in uniquely qualified for the role of Mayor: members and families, HEADSTRONG is committed crisis leadership came while serving he’s ready to listen to and empower as a Marine in some of the most New Yorkers battling a multitude of to improving lives and reducing barriers to effective contentious parts of Iraq. However, crises. He’s prepared to lead and be mental health care and delivering industry leading Zach believed that his duty extended held accountable for finding solutions beyond just those in his platoon. to New York City’s public health outcomes. Since our inception in 2012, Headstrong That’s why, while still on active duty, and economic challenges, our fiscal has delivered life-altering, mental health treatment Zach testified before Congress to fight shortfalls, and for reimaging New for a special visa program that offered York’s antiquated policies around to thousands of veterans, service members and their a path to citizenship for thousands of public safety, transportation, and more. family members. Now offering virtual and in-person Iraqis who risked their lives to help Zach lives his values by giving U.S. troops work towards peace. back to his country and community. treatment options for clients impacted by COVID-19 After returning home, Zach His family is rooted in the tradition of across 11 states and 27 program markets, the watched as a mental health crisis serving New York City and working grew among his former colleagues towards the public good — from Headstrong clinical network includes hundreds of and in his community. He saw more of his grandfather who worked for the experienced, culturally competent trauma clinicians, CO-CHAIR s a father, husband, and his fellow Marines committing suicide Department of Sanitation to his mother battle-tested leader Zach than his team had lost on deployment. who was one of the few white teachers including psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed Iscol knows how to lead He decided that access to quality to cross picket lines in support of her clinical social workers and who treat an average of through a crisis. He’s ready to affordable mental healthcare was a Black colleagues and students during bring his life’s experience to need that was going unmet. So Zach the 1968 teacher’s strike. 1,000 clients per month. Through its relationship ZACH rebuilding New York City and bringing conferred with veterans and mental Above all else, Zach comes to seek A with Weill Cornell Medicine, itself a world-class our municipal government into the health experts and founded the public office both as a progressive 21st century. Whether it’s how we Headstrong Project – a mental health and as a father of four young children health care system, Headstrong’s differentiating and ISCOL police our streets, educate our kids, non-profit that provides top-quality, who believes that every child raised in evidence-based clinical stance offers clients a range CO-FOUNDER collect our trash, move around the free mental health care. New York City should be surrounded AND CHAIRMAN city, or any of the many other issues However, he knew the need by opportunity and multiple avenues of stigma, barrier, and cost-free treatment options, OF THE BOARD, facing New York, the fact is clear: our didn’t stop there. Zach also founded to success, not inequity and crisis. all individually tailored to their needs, to ensure the HEADSTRONG city needs competency, leadership, Hirepurpose, a tech and hiring He knows that the health, safety, and a mayor who truly cares about platform that has helped countless education, and access to opportunity best clinical experience possible. To learn more, visit the outcomes of their actions. veterans and Gold Star families find across the five boroughs should not getheadstrong.org Zach’s life has been dedicated employment, and Task & Purpose, an be determined by zip code or because to public service and stepping up outlet dedicated to investigating issues of the failures of the city leadership. to the plate when his community in military and veteran communities Zach lives in downtown Manhattan needed him most. New York needs from sexual harassment in the ranks to with his wife, Meredith, their four a crisis-proven leader. As the city V.A. shortcomings in New York City. children, and three rescue dogs.

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sense of purpose, community and penned op-eds for The New York identity created by joining a new Times, TIME Magazine, USA Today mission. Since the organization’s and Forbes. An expert on veteran founding in 2010 following the reintegration, disaster response devastating Haiti earthquake, Team and social entrepreneurship, Wood Rubicon has responded to over has spoken or keynoted at Harvard, 700 disasters and grown from eight University of Wisconsin, University to 130,000 volunteer members. of Washington, University of Under Wood’s leadership, the Southern , and Syracuse organization has responded top University as well as Goldman high-profile disasters like the Sachs, Jones Lang LaSalle, Home 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, Depot and numerous other Fortune TEAM RUBICON serves communities by mobilizing , the 2013 tornado 500 companies. In 2020, Sentinel veterans to continue their service by leveraging their skills in Moore, Oklahoma, Typhoon Books will publish Wood’s memoir and experience to help people prepare, respond, and Haiyan in the Philippines, the 2015 Once A Warrior: How One Veteran recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. Founded earthquakes in Nepal and the Found a New Mission Closer devastating hurricanes in , to Home. His first book, Take following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the organization Florida and Puerto Rico in 2017. Command: Lessons in Leadership, has grown to over 130,000 volunteers across the United Team Rubicon has been finished was published in 2014. States and has launched over 700 operations both in the top three of the Nonprofit Wood has received numerous domestically and internationally. Amidst the COVID-19 Times’ “Top Nonprofit To Work awards including: an ESPN For in America” lists three years in Espy Award for Service (“Pat outbreak, Team Rubicon has not only pivoted to be able a row. Tillman Award); the Chronicle of to continue to deliver disaster response and rebuild Prior to Team Rubicon, Wood Philanthropy’s “40 Under Forty”; the services in core mission areas, but has also expanded served four years in the United States LA Chamber of Commerce Visionary their scope of missions to meet community needs brought Marine Corps where he graduated Leader Award; the at the top of his class at Boot Camp, “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” about by COVID. This has required the development of the School of Infantry, and the award; GQ Magazine’s 2011 “Better extensive protocols that allow its volunteers, also known Marine Scout Sniper School. During Men, Better World” Gentleman of as Greyshirts, to swiftly and safely continue to deliver on his service he deployed to both the Year designation; University of its core mission of disaster response which has recently Iraq and Afghanistan, and earned Wisconsin’s “Forward Under 40” numerous commendations. Wood award; the Grinnell Prize for social included operations for Hurricanes Laura, Isaias, Hanna left the Marine Corps a Sergeant. change; the Heinz Foundation’s and the recent derecho in the Midwest. Team Rubicon A leading veterans’ advocate, Heinz Award; and was selected as has also adapted its capabilities to respond to the Wood has briefed President a CNN Hero in 2012. He was also pandemic by assisting in activities such as food delivery CO-CHAIR ake Wood is cofounder Obama on veterans’ issues, met selected as a Millennium Fellow by and CEO of Team Rubicon, with former Presidents George W. the Atlantic Council and is a member to at-risk populations, coordination and logistics support the only nonprofit disaster Bush and to talk about of the Council on Foreign Relations. for those in temporary quarantine, and opportunities for response organization Team Rubicon’s role in veteran Wood holds a Bachelor’s degree volunteers to help their neighbors through individual acts that utilizes the skills of transition and disaster response from the University of Wisconsin of service. Additionally, Team Rubicon has helped local, JAKE militaryJ veterans to rapidly deploy and testified before a Senate with a double major in Business emergency response teams. In committee to improve mental and Political Science. He played state, and federal partners with a direct medical response, repurposing the skills gained health care services for returning football for the Badgers on a full including running mobile testing sites, decompressing WOOD during service — like emergency veterans. He has also appeared in athletic scholarship and was twice hospitals, and providing on-site medical assistance. CO-FOUNDER medicine, risk assessment and the major media, including MSNBC, selected to the Academic All-Big Visit teamrubiconusa.org for more information. AND CEO, mitigation, logistics, teamwork CNN, NBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, US Ten football team. He splits his time TEAM RUBICON and decisive leadership — Team News & World Report, Forbes, between and New Rubicon provides veterans with a Huffington Post and Fox News and York City with his lovely wife.

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Jim Axelrod is the chief investigative and senior national correspondent for CBS News, reporting for CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, and other CBS News broadcasts. Kilo Company While at CBS News, Axelrod has covered a broad range of domestic and international stories, notably the war in Iraq and the American invasion of Afghanistan. In 2003, Axelrod was the first television journalist to report live from Baghdad’s Saddam International Airport immediately after it fell to U.S. troops. His live coverage of the U.S. Army firing artillery rounds into Iraqi positions was the first to be broadcast by a reporter embedded with ground troops engaged in combat in Iraq. Axelrod also covered the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq and was the last reporter to leave with the military in December 2011. Axelrod’s investigative journalism has been honored with a Peabody Award for his series on West Virginia’s opioid addiction crisis, a George Polk Award for his work exposing a multi-billion dollar compounding pharmacy fraud, and an Edward R. Murrow award for his reporting on the genetic testing industry. He was also part of the CBS News team honored with a 2010 duPont- Columbia Silver Baton for CBS Reports: Children of the Recession. Axelrod also won Emmy awards in 2002, 2014, and 2016. MASTER OF Axelrod joined CBS News in 1996 as a Miami-based correspondent CEREMONIES and later served in the Dallas Bureau (1997-1999) and New York Bureau (1999-2006). He also served as CBS News’ chief White House correspondent (2006-2009) and was named a CBS News national correspondent in 2009. From 2012-2016, Axelrod was the anchor the JIM CBS Saturday Evening News. Before joining CBS News in 1996, he was a political reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC (1993-1996). Previously, Axelrod was a reporter for WSTM- AXELROD TV Syracuse, NY (1990-1993), and at WUTR-TV Utica, NY (1989-1990). He CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE began his career at WVII-TV Bangor, Maine in 1989. CORRESPONDENT, Born in New Brunswick, NJ, Axelrod was graduated from Cornell CBS NEWS University in 1985 with a bachelor of arts in history and from Brown University in 1989 with a master of arts in history. Axelrod is the author of In The Long Run: A Father, A Son, and Unintentional Lessons In Happiness, which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2011. rd st He and his wife, Christina, have three children and live in Montclair, NJ. 3 Bn 1 MARINES

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cancer, to ticker-tape parades and indy Hsu is an Emmy Award telethons. winning anchor and reporter A Long Island native, DuBois who has been at CBS 2 News spent seven years at WNBC-TV in New York City since 1993. before joining CBS. At NBC News, he Hsu’s work at CBS 2 has appeared on Today, Weekend Today, Cbeen recognized with numerous Dateline NBC, MSNBC and NBC awards. Recently, Hsu was awarded News at Sunrise. While at WNBC-TV, “Reporter of the Year” from the NY & DuBois also hosted Four Stories, a NJ Asian-American Law Enforcement magazine profiling local heroes; he Organization. Her personal adoption also hosted Court-TV’s Mind over story, “Bringing Rosie Home,” was Media, for students to understand nominated for an Emmy Award and media images. won the New York AP Broadcasters Previously, DuBois worked in Award for Best Feature. She received and Sacramento. He began Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single his career in 1987 at KING-TV in Hard News Story for “Smuggled from Seattle as a desk assistant before China,” which exposed the horrific moving to reporting. plights of Chinese refugees from He’s appeared as – what else? – the Golden Venture ship, and for her a news anchor, on CBS’s hit drama live coverage of the snowstorm of Person of Interest, and the feature 1994. American Women in Radio and films Soul Men and Kick Ass. Television honored her with the Golden DuBois has won several journalism Apple Award, and she also received and community awards, including five the Friends of Adoption Award from Emmys. He’s also won honors from the Adoptive Parents Committee. The , The New York Prior to joining WCBS-TV, Hsu State Broadcasters Association, and worked as a reporter and anchor at The New York Association of Black WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin Journalists, which recognized him as and for WTOV-TV in Steubenville, a Trailblazer. Ohio. She began her broadcasting SPECIAL GUEST t CBS News, he substitutes as He serves on the non-profit board career as an associate producer for Kids, an annual event that raises SPECIAL GUEST anchor of The CBS Evening of NY City Center, and previously WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia. money for children living with AIDS News, has reported for 60 served at PENCIL, Susan G. Komen Hsu spends much of her off- and HIV, and she is actively involved Minutes Sports and CBS for the Cure/NYC, and The Northside duty time performing community with The Children’s Miracle Network. Sunday Morning, and has Center for Child Development. work and is strongly involved with Hsu is also a former President of MAURICE Ahosted CBS This Morning, 48 Hours DuBois is a graduate of the Asian-American community. the New York Chapter of the Asian CINDY and CBSN. Northwestern University, has four She is a Big Sister and has served American Journalists Association. DuBois has covered everything Honorary PhDs, and is a member of on the Advisory Board of APEX, a Hsu is also a world-class dragon DUBOIS from local news to national political the Council on Foreign Relations. group that pairs Asian professionals boater, competing with her team HSU ANCHOR, conventions, to AIDS in South Africa, He lives in Manhattan with his wife with recent immigrants and young Women in Canoe. They represented ANCHOR, CBS2 NEWS to Papal transition at the Vatican, to and two sons. people who need guidance. She’s the United States in the 2001 World CBS2 NEWS witnessing a double execution. He served on the Board of Directors Championship. has anchored numerous live breaking of the Museum of Chinese in the Hsu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii news stories, and moderated Americas and the Juvenile Diabetes to a Coast Guard family that moved debates for New York City Mayor Research Foundation, as well as the every two to four years. She graduated and Congress. He has also hosted Newswatch Advisory Council which from Virginia Tech with a degree in multiple specials on topics ranging monitors fairness in journalism. Hsu communication studies and lives in from kids and violence, to breast has been the co-chair of Cooks for New York City with her daughter.

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GERRY BYRNE, JAKE WOOD & ZACH ISCOL extend a special thank you to The trustees and staff of THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT and TEAM RUBICON PLUTO TV and VIACOM CBS VETERANS NETWORK

The Dinner Committee wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the following people and organizations who made tonight possible

TEAM BIRTHDAY VIACOMCBS • WCBS-TV • PLUTO TV ANDREA EPSTEIN MEGAN BYRNE RICHARD M. JONES LISA SPALLA THE GATES SISTERS TOM RYAN BRANDEN JOHNSTON JOE LISI BETTY DIAZ CARRIE ANN INABA BRUCE MCDONALD JUDD LORMAND SPECIAL GUESTS RAQUEL MERILUS NEIL BROWN, JR. GENERAL JAMES MATTIS USMC (RET) JO ANN ROSS A.J. BUCKLEY KEN FISHER CHRIS SIMON JUSTIN MELNICK THE HONORABLE DAVID DINKINS GARY PAGANO DREW KALISKI DAVID DINKINS JR. JIM AXELROD JENNIFER SABATELLE AMY KUESSNER JAMES BROWN MARINE FOR LIFE RECIPIENTS JODI LEDERMAN PHIL SIMMS GENERAL JOSEPH DUNFORD SCOTT REICH BILL COWHER BOB PARSONS BRIAN SAMUELS BOOMER ESIASON ADAM DRIVER SERGE GOJKOVICH NATE BURLESON WALTER ANDERSON ALEX SALAZAR INGRID CIPRIAN-MATTHEWS RAY KELLY JESSICA KASTLUNGER LANCE FRANK SANDY ALDERSON JEREMY FRIGO KIM FOLEY KELSEY FIELDS JOURNAL HON. JAMES WEBB LISA AFANO THE STAFF OF PENSKE MEDIA TOMMY LYONS LEE GROSSMAN CORPORATION PETER FITZPATRICK JENNIFER BENNETT-LEE MARK STRICKLER, JUSTIN FRED SMITH JENNIFER HANCOX STRICKLER, TRILON COLOR LITHO CHARLES PHILLIPS MAURICE DUBOIS WENDY MOGER-BROSS, CINDY HSU PHOTOGRAPHER HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS CLAY PARKER GENERAL DAVID BERGER, RITA CHIGAS COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS BRAD MUELLER COL. SCOTT LEONARD MELANIE CORINNE JULIE ST. ONGE SIENNA SANDERS MAJOR LINDSAY PIREK YANI CHANG CAPTAIN COLLEEN RANDOLPH SHERYL UNDERWOOD THE MARINE CORPS DRUM & SHARON OSBOURNE BUGLE CORPS EVE

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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS BOB & RENEE PARSONS FEDERAL EXPRESS KIM FOLEY GEORGE OLSEN JIM BUCKMAN RICHARD SALOMON & LAURA LANDRO WUNDERMAN THOMPSON BOB & GAIL BARSNESS HONORABLE RAY KELLY ROSA & CHRIS PERKINS COL. KEVIN BROOKS USMC ROBERTS & RYAN INVESTMENTS, INC. (1944-2020) JOHN DOMAN A Marines Marine! TODD HASKINS Semper Fi! SANDY ALDERSON GERRY BYRNE FISERV & FIRST PLATOON, A COMPANY, CLASS 1-67 SOPHIE STENBECK THE BASIC SCHOOL Quantico, Virginia WARREN WASP

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Through a partnership with Weill Cornell Medical College, Headstrong COFOUNDED BY 2016 MARINE FOR LIFE RECIPIENT JAKE WOOD IN 2010, Team Rubicon serves Throughprovides a partnership cost-free, bureaucracy-free, with Weill Cornell and confidential Medical College, mental healthcare Headstrong communities by mobilizing veterans to leverage their skills and experience to help people prepare, providestreatment cost-free, to Iraq bureaucracy-free, and Afghanistan combat and confidential veterans. With mental Weill Cornell healthcare respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. Taking o the uniform of the United Medical College, the nation’s leading mental healthcare center, Head- treatment to Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans. With Weill Cornell States Armed Forces has not diminished the call to serve for Team Rubicon's tens of thousands Medicalstrong College, developed the a firstnation’s of its leadingkind, individually-tailored, mental healthcare comprehensive center, Head- treatment program to prevent soldier and veteran suicide. Marine Corps veteran volunteers. strong developed aWe first are hereof its to kind, serve individually-tailored,those that served us. comprehensive treatment program to prevent soldier and veteran suicide. 245 YEARS OLD AND STILL SERVING. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES. We are here to serve those that served us. To learn how you can help end the stigma and receive access to mental healthcare, go to: To learn how you can help end the stigma and receive access to mental healthcare,GetHeadstrong.org go to: To learn more about Team Rubicon, visit TeamRubiconUSA.org GetHeadstrong.org32 33 THE 23rd ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY (VIRTUAL) GALA IN CELEBRATION OF THE 245th UNITEDSCENES STATES FROM MARINE THE 244CORPSth BIRTHDAY BENEFITTING TEAM RUBICON & THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY GALA INTREPID SEA, AIR & SPACE MUSEUM, NYC • NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY BY WENDY MOGER-BROSS

Happy 245th Birthday USMC CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HONOREES OF THE VIRTUAL NYC GALA

AND A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY WISH FOR COL. CHRISTOPHER A. LANDRO and the 1/25th

From Laura Landro and Richard Salomon

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Happy 245th Birthday Marines! Congratulations General David H. Berger General Joseph Dunford The Honorable David Dinkins The Montford Point Marines

Semper Fi Rosa & Chris Perkins

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TO EVERY MARINE, A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Since the birth of this Nation, generations of Marines have tirelessly defended all its people. We’re honored to share in the celebration of the 245th birthday of the United States Marine Corps and honored to share a great legacy with the world.

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We believe in possibility.

Fiserv is proud to support the 245th Birthday of the United States Marine Corp

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Honor. Commitment. Courage.

The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation is proud to support the veterans and military families who sacrifice so much for our nation.

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