Our country now depends on imports of two million tons of natural rubber from five Asian countries, China and Vietnam among them, without capacity to produce it now for American producers of 40,000 products that depend on it. The Defense Department states that Natural Rubber is a strategic material that is vital to our national security, yet we are vulnerable to disruption by China, my ag enterprise will focus on building capacity to current and future needs of this vital commodity. Along with growing two plant species that offer a high quality natural rubber we will grow many other species of value as fiber, food, and medicinals. Plant material left over will be used to make BioCoal briquettes to replace coal as a clean burning biofuel. As a Vietnam vet who served with the Navy, and later in the Army, I still keep the oath I took to serve our country, and to defend it against enemies, foreign and domestic, building a natural rubber industry, along with other vets looking to get back into the civilian world, and homeless folk, is my way to help make America Great Again.
Served in the Tonkin Gulf, on the attack aircraft carrier, USS KITTY HAWK, later became a newspaper reporter, and editor of a 12 page weekly paper at a naval air station in Florida. In the Army, stationed in Germany, was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for my work in a job I had to learn from scratch, managing a complex personnel management system. At North Fort Lewis, in Washington, I worked for the 9th Division Air Defense Artillery Brigade headquarters, and on the Fast Attack Vehicle project with the High Technology Test Bed. As a civilian I have handled a Univac System 80 mainframe computer, have been active in sales, marketing, advertising, even did a couple of commercial fishing contracts in Alaska, and lived to tell about it. Since leaving the military I have spent decades looking for solutions to end thirst, hunger, homelessness, and energy deficits, and have found them, will shortly be in a position to showcase these answers at the White Tiger Farms, and our glamping resort to welcome guests and visitors from around the world.
