 Yes, I'm Rob Lewis with Disabled American Veterans. We're so glad you're here with us today. And we are live from DAV National Headquarters in Erlanga, Kentucky. And I am joined today by none other than DAV's membership director, Doug Wells. Doug, how are you doing today? Great, Rob, how are you? We are here today, as you know, because we are going to draw the winner of DAV's Recruit a Warrior Challenge. But before we get to the drawing, I'd like to talk a little bit more about Recruit a Warrior, how it works and what it needs and how it assists veterans to recruit their fellow veterans into becoming part of the greatest veteran service organization in the country. Doug, tell me a little bit about Recruit a Warrior. Absolutely. So we really tried to create another tool for our members to leverage when they're recruiting and to make it as convenient and safe as possible, especially in the age of pandemics, right? So all members need to do is go to DAV.org slash warrior and input their membership number. And it will generate a personalized recruitment link that they can share via email, text, social media, however they want, even from the comfort of their own home. And that link, if a member converts to joining DAV and becomes a paid member, they will get credit for that recruitment. So that includes all the cool things like DAV membership points that they can utilize to purchase DAV swag with and to also be included in great opportunities like the Recruit a Warrior channel. And so tell me, it's not just a link that they're going to get. Also, they can do things like generate a QR code that they can use on things like business cards. Is that right? Absolutely. Actually, we just sent out a memo today to our member leaders. And I encourage them to share it with all of the folks on their email mailing lists and to talk about it at their next chapter or department functions. But again, we're just really trying to simplify the recruitment process. So what they can do is they, and all the instructions are included in the memo as well as at DAV.org and the member resources page. Scroll all the way down to that page. It's the very last tile. And you can generate your link, incorporate it into your business card order, and the business card will then furthermore have your QR code, personalized recruitment QR code on there. So all folks need to do is pull out their mobile device, take a picture of the QR code, and it takes it right to your personalized DAV membership application. The rebirth of the QR code works for us too. That's great to hear. And you mentioned this cool vest, which I love. What are some other benefits? What are some other things that folks can do with things that the Recruit a Warrior points out? So you can go to give us a call here at the DAV store at National Headquarters. Just call the main number of headquarters and they can transfer you over to the store. You can also have a link. If you go to DAV.org, you can see the link for the DAV store. You can redeem your points for all kinds of cool swag, but not just apparel items, flags, other stuff that you might be interested in either enjoying for yourself or shooting with others. That sounds great. And everyone who has taken part in Recruit a Warrior who is a part of this amazing initiative, their name is in this canister right now. Is that correct? That's correct. So the terms of the challenge are for every new member you recruit utilizing your Recruit a Warrior link, you get your name entered once into the drawing. So if you recruited 10 new members, you got 10. 10. Copies of your names in this marital region. Oh, that's amazing. OK. And pulling back a little bit more globally, if we can, for just a second. It's not just about this great gear, this cool swag, as you said. It's not just about winning the drawing, which we love, and that's why we're here today. But it's $1,000. $1,000, right? Of course. It's more about, or it's just as much about at least this organization, about strengthening this organization, talking about recruiting. So yeah, we obviously were stronger together, right? And as our leaders in Washington, DC, go on Capitol Hill to advocate for not only the benefits that we already have to ensure that those are protected, but to acquire new benefits that may be needed. The PAC DECK is a prime example of that. GAV carried the guide on for the PAC DECK for years and led the way when it came to that. And that was all made possible by a strong membership base. So the stronger our membership base, one point, a little over one million members right now, we've got to keep that strong. So when our leaders in DC point to our constituency and say, this is what your folks want, our elected representatives stand up to us. It's gonna be in the text that accompanies this video, but tell me just so folks know, I want to hear come out of your mouth, where can folks go to find out more about becoming a DAV member? So the best place to go is DAV's new member resource page. Just go to DAV.org, hover over member, the little dropdown menu will show up and you just click on member resources. You'll have a ton of information right at your fingertips. You don't need a membership number to access that information anymore. And they'll let you know all about the eligibility requirements for membership in DAV, as well as what are the advantages of being a DAV member to include our great member advantages discount program. Excellent, excellent. Doug, I see a set of keys down here. Are you ready for the moment of truth? I am. We're gonna give this barrel a couple of tumbles and then we'll pull out the winner. Let's do it. One more, Doug. Just give him one more. We'll go the other way. There you go. There we go. Nice and mixed up. Come on in here, Michael. There we go. Come on in. Make sure that we got one. And Carlos E. Perez, congratulations. You're the winner of the recruit award. Reaching out to you to get this great prize to you and all the other ins and outs, regulations that we unfortunately need to make sure we share with you as well. But congratulations on winning $1,000 during the recruit award challenge. And I can't tell you personally how much I appreciate your efforts during this timeframe, but also the DEV truly appreciates everything that you're doing on the field as well as all of our other great participants. And just as a quick reminder, the recruit award links are always active. It's just not during our recruit award challenges. They are active all year round. And again, it's the safest, easiest way for you to be able to recruit. Yeah, congratulations Carlos Perez. Carlos Perez is what a great thing that is for you. Congratulations on that. It's a good gift on a Friday to head into the weekend. Into the holiday. Into the holiday, you're right. Doug, since I've got you here and we talk about it briefly, I see this really, you've got your own cool swag on. You've got a DAV Warriors Club shirt. Tell me a little bit about the DAV Warriors Club. So as everyone hopefully understands, if you don't, just a quick refresher. So we take in dues for membership. They go into our life membership fund and annually we do a distribution out to our chapters that our local leaders then utilize to close the gap, help close the gap between the benefits that are available to our members and other veterans on the ground in their local communities and what the reality is in their area. It's very tough for us to identify all the needs from our parts here at National Headquarters. Not every community is created equally, right? So our local leaders can help best determine how to utilize those funds. So if they feel like a new van is needed for the transportation network, if they need to support a homeless veteran stand-down program, if they need to update the equipment that our outstanding chapter and department service officer utilize, they can do all that stuff. So there's a whole plethora of things that they can apply these resources to. And what the Warriors Club is about is helping to support our programs and services everywhere from the national level all the way down to the local level. So that's really the crux of what we're doing with the Warriors Club. So to be clear, the Warriors Club is a special opportunity for DAV full-life members to donate to continue to support their fellow country. So I'm a member, I encourage everyone out there that's eligible to be members. And the only criteria that you need to be eligible for for donating to the Warriors Club and having access to this other great swag is being a full-life member of DAV. And you brought it up, you TV up here. Thank you so much. There is merchandise that is available exclusively to Warriors Club member. Doug Wells is involved, there's gonna be exclusive merchandise to tell me about it. So we're actually getting ready to shoot out a memo here early next week. You're gonna have a two-week opportunity to purchase Warriors Club merchandise so that you can have it to probably display and let folks know how committed you are to DAV's mission and that you believe in what we're doing. But we've got a two-week timeframe from December 13th through December 21st. So you get your merch back in time to rock it mid-winter conference and we'll also open up another two-week timeframe prior to national convention. So look for that in the screen. Folks who are interested, how do they learn more about it? So DAV.org Warriors Club, awful lot of Warriors going on today but I love it because that's what DAV is. We are Warriors for our fellow veterans, we're veterans helping veterans. So we are going to take care of business every day with DAV.org Warriors Club is where you can learn how to become a supporter of the Warriors Club. Thank you so much, Doug. Thank you all of you for tuning in today and watching us learn more about the Warriors Club as we learn more about Recruiter Warrior. You wanna find out more about DAV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, DAV.org. You know all the places where you can find out that information, come in, find out more. And of course you can learn more about Recruiter Warrior at DAV.org slash Warrior and find out more information about the Warriors Club once again at DAV.org slash Warrior.