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News & Events

R3 to Sponsor Warriors Helping Warriors event

R3 is a proud Master Blaster Red sponsor of the 12th annual Warriors Helping Warriors event at Tackitt Family Vineyards in San Miguel, CA on Saturday, April 15, 2023. This family-friendly event brings together wounded warriors and their families, those who have lost their loved one on the battlefield, active duty and retired servicemen and women, longtime friends of the EOD Community, and residents and civic leaders to enjoy a day of bottling wine, great food, music, and friendship, all while supporting the EOD Warrior Foundation (EODWF).

The EODWF serves the EOD community by providing financial assistance and support to Active-Duty, Reserve and National Guard, Retired, and Veteran EOD technicians and their families. Their support includes financial assistance and additional services such as morale events, peer-to-peer support, educational programs, connections to resources, care of the EOD Memorial, and sustained contact with EOD warriors and their families. The Foundation believes that the EOD family is for life. Their ongoing mission is to disarm the challenges of the EOD family by providing support with compassion and caring to every individual they serve.

R3 Sponsors Mt. Soledad’s 2nd Annual Women’s History Brunch

R3 is proud to be a corporate sponsor of the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial 2nd Annual Women’s History Brunch honoring women in military service. The event will be held at the Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial on March 23, 2023. The Guest of Honor for the 2nd Annual Women’s History Brunch is WWII Marine Corps Veteran Randy Tidmore. She will be presented a Veteran Honor Plaque and celebrate her 101st Birthday!

At last year’s inaugural event, Memorial Association program manager Jennifer Givens, a Navy veteran and the granddaughter of a World War II and Korean War veteran.

“Women have served in every major war in American history. In the Revolutionary War, you had women that dressed as men to serve, you had women that served as nurses, women that followed their husbands into combat and picked up arms when need be. So before women could vote or have any rights as citizens, they served this nation. We have always served, whether we had the right to or not.”

Today, she said, “women are advancing and able to fill almost every role in the military. … Women are just as important as their male counterparts.”

About Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial — Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial, A United States National Memorial is not federally funded and is maintained by Mt Soledad Memorial Association Inc. which is supported solely thru Memberships, Donations, and Plaque sales.

R3 welcomes Bob Baughman

We are excited to have Bob Baughman join the R3 team.  Bob recently retired from the United States Navy after 32 years of service as a Special Operations Officer and Master EOD Technician.  He has a diverse background in numerous functional areas including EOD, Mine Countermeasures and Mining, Diving and Salvage, Warfare Requirements, and Doctrine Development.  Bob began his Navy career in 1990 after graduating from the University of Maryland in College Park and obtaining a Commission through Officers Candidate School in Newport Rhode Island.

Bob has spent the majority of his tours in operational billets and has held leadership positions at every level to include Commanding Officer of EOD Mobile Unit FIVE, EOD Group ONE, and Task Force 75; Deputy Commander of NSW Group ONE and Deputy Commander of Combined Joint Task Force Troy in Iraq.  He has also completed numerous staff tours including Commander THIRD Fleet, Commander FIFTH Fleet, Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, and Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center.

Bob was also the first EOD recipient of the Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership and will be supporting the Navy EOD Leadership Continuum program as a co-facilitator.  Additionally, he will also provide the Navy EOD Group ONE Requirements department with a range of JCIDS support to help validate joint and expeditionary warfighting requirements.