From Wartime Technology Comes Hurricane Relief
Veterans are using battlefield programs to manage volunteers
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A parking lot on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, on the New York coastline ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, serves as the base of operations for Team Rubicon, a volunteer organization staffed by military veterans who show up when disaster strikes. There’s equipment common to any recovery site: stacks of hand tools, portable toilets, pallets of food and water. And then there’s the matte-green school bus, parked in the back.