I was asked about being a State Lead while at a SCA Steak cook off In Kansas , after giving it some thought I decided to take the offer. Then in March of 2016 is when I really got involved , That was the Floods of year ( at the time ) in the State of Louisiana, It was in my home town of Shreveport. I was asked to run the Deployments since I had contacts in my area. That’s when I really seen How Giving the people of OBR are, How big there hearts are to drop what they are doing , Leave their jobs and there business, Family’s and kids behind and go and help those in need. We had OBR folks from all over the country show up to help , we ended up feeding 58k meals in 7 days to say that this was a live changing experience would be a understatement. I pressed on helping where I fit in with OBR , then the Floods of the century hit South Louisiana in August and it was the same as before , People from all over came to help and we was able to feed 313k meals in 2 weeks. Since then I have been on many deployments and have seen this in all of them. I choose to give back where I can because people came to help my State get back on there feet in the darkest times. #obrcares # iamobr
Bryan Roppolo