{"id":3673,"date":"2022-01-27T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/production-a-us-west-2-blog.pxg.cloud\/basecamp\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:52:39","slug":"taking-care-of-our-own-the-dna-of-the-semper-fi-americas-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/production-a-us-west-2-blog.pxg.cloud\/the-range\/videos\/taking-care-of-our-own-the-dna-of-the-semper-fi-americas-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Care of Our Own | The DNA of The Semper Fi &#038; America&#8217;s Fund\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taking Care of Our Own | The DNA of The Semper Fi &amp; America&#039;s Fund\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvkSehAWj4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pxg.com\/en-us\/about\/news\/2021-pxg-college-golf-showcase-distributes-one\">PXG College Golf Showcase<\/a>, two teams of college students competed to raise money for nonprofits, including <a href=\"https:\/\/semperfifund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"The Semper Fi &amp; America's Fund\">The Semper Fi &amp; America&#8217;s Fund<\/a>. Watch PXG Founder, Bob Parsons sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/semperfifund.org\/who-we-are\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Fund&#8217;s chairman<\/a> \u2013 Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. \u2013 and comedian\/Marine Rob Riggle to discuss The Fund&#8217;s mission and how PXG will continue playing a part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h2 id=\"at-36730\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">Video Transcript<\/h2><div id=\"ac-36730\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rob\">Rob:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Gentlemen, what an honor it is to be here with you, two other Marines. I am a Marine as well. So Bob Parsons, you&#8217;ve done so much. And of course, General Dunford, you&#8217;ve done so much for Marines. Let&#8217;s talk about the Semper Fi Fund, the Semper Fi &amp; America&#8217;s Fund now. I&#8217;ve been with this so long, back when it was just the Semper Fi Fund, but now we&#8217;ve added America&#8217;s Fund as well to that. Can you tell me if you don&#8217;t mind General, jumping in on this one? I&#8217;m curious, educate us on what the mission is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"general-dunford\">General Dunford:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure. Well, as you know, Rob, a number of men and women who serve, have catastrophic wounds and injuries that really have a big impact in their lives. And so the primary purpose of the fund is to give them as much of the independence and the quality of life as they would&#8217;ve had in the context of their injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rob\">Rob:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, and there is. When I talk to people about this, they say, &#8220;Well, isn&#8217;t the government taking care of that? Doesn&#8217;t Uncle Sam, isn&#8217;t they supposed to jump in and do that?&#8221; And yes, to a certain degree they do, but there&#8217;s always gaps. There&#8217;s always gaps. And I always feel like that&#8217;s what the Semper Fi &amp; America&#8217;s Fund really helps to do. Is that accurate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"general-dunford\">General Dunford:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, I couldn&#8217;t agree more. That&#8217;s exactly right. I mean, there&#8217;s only so much the government is going to do. And then the private sector has to pick up and fill those gaps as you talked about. And that&#8217;s exactly what we seek to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rob\">Rob:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Good. Awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rob\">Rob:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Parson, you have spearheaded so many different projects, so many different ways to help our veterans, obviously being a big supporter of the Semper Fi &amp; America&#8217;s Fund, you also do a lot in other ways. What are you happy to see going on here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bob-parsons\">Bob Parsons:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I love the fact that the Semper Fi Fund is being represented here and most capably by General Dunford, who heads it up now and he&#8217;s made a nice difference. The fund has made a tremendous difference. My wife and I have been supporting them for, I&#8217;d say the better part of 10 years, if not more than 10 years. And so we&#8217;re very excited about that. And we also have a number of other military organizations we support, but right at the moment, we&#8217;re focused on the Semper Fi Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"rob\">Rob:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, and you&#8217;ve always done a really good job too, of finding different ways, I&#8217;ve found, to support the Semper Fi Fund. Not only do you directly support them, but you also support them in other ways, by matching other people&#8217;s work, myself included. I had a golf tournament that I did for a while for the Semper Fi Fund. And you were always very gracious about, &#8220;Well, what did he raise? He raised that much? I&#8217;ll match it.&#8221; And it always doubled the numbers, which was, I found, just truly remarkable. And I always appreciated that too. So thank yovu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bob-parsons\">Bob Parsons:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>No, it&#8217;s always our pleasure to do something like that.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent PXG College Golf Showcase, two teams of college students competed to raise money for nonprofits, including The Semper Fi &amp; America&#8217;s Fund. Watch PXG Founder, Bob Parsons sat down with The Fund&#8217;s chairman \u2013 Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. 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