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Martha Vasquez Awarded Accounting and Finance Award

R3 is honored to learn that Martha Vasquez was selected as San Diego Business Journal Women of Influence in Accounting and Finance Top 50 recognition!  Noted in her award, “In 2022, she led the transition converting from an S to C corporation, establishing an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), including obtaining the financing and led the company through its first formal corporate valuation process.  She oversees operational and financial accounting for an approximately 200-person company with operations across 26 states and three countries primarily supporting the Department of Defense.”

We are proud to see her hard work and dedication recognized in this public forum across all business sectors in San Diego.

R3 proudly supports The Honor Foundation

Pictured L-R:  Kathy Leming (THF Senior Director of Marketing & Communications); Mark Sanders (R3 President); Jessica Hunt (THF Director of Impact, West); Tod Neal (R3 Project Manager and THF graduate); Brad Rosenak (R3 ExMCM Subject Matter Expert and THF graduate); Hillary Hays (THF Director of People-San Diego); and Hugh-Michael Higgs (THF Director of Programs-San Diego).

R3 is proud to support The Honor Foundation and presented a donation to members of THF’s San Diego leadership team.  With many THF alumni/graduates joining R3, we truly benefit from their transition mentorship programs.  By creating an institution specifically designed to serve the U.S. Special Operations Forces, THF has been a well-defined career transition program from the beginning. Every aspect of their program has been inspired by the way Special Operators work in the field and focuses on key transitional readiness themes isolated through extensive research and feedback to assist the cohort members to navigate the transition to civilian life after military service.

R3 Sponsors Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial Ceremony

R3 was a proud sponsor of the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial at its 2022 Veterans Day ceremony. At this year’s ceremony, the legacy of Navajo Code Talkers of WWII was honored with a plaque recognizing their dedication to their country.

During WWII, U.S. forces needed an unbreakable code that would allow them to communicate and protect their operational plans. The U.S. Marines knew exactly where to find such a code: the Navajo Nation. U.S. Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics. This system enabled the Code Talkers to translate three lines of English in 20 seconds, not 30 minutes as was common with existing code-breaking machines.

The Code Talkers participated in every major Marine operation in the Pacific theater, giving the Marines a critical advantage throughout the war. During the nearly month-long battle for Iwo Jima, for example, six Navajo Code Talker Marines successfully transmitted more than 800 messages without error. Marine leadership noted after the battle that the Code Talkers were critical to the victory at Iwo Jima. At the end of the war, the Navajo Code remained unbroken.

 

The Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial is one of the most unique veterans’ memorials in the nation and stands high on La Jolla’s Mt. Soledad, offering panoramic views of San Diego County.  It is the only Memorial that honors veterans, living or deceased. More than 5,800 individual veteran tributes, embedded on black granite plaques, are mounted onto 11 curved walls honoring our military veterans.