U.S. Bank Honors Military Veteran and Active Duty Employees on November 10
November 10 2015 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Welcomes 2013 Medal of Honor recipient Clint Romesha, announces
$100,000 sponsorship of the Medal of Honor Convention
U.S. Bank welcomed Medal of Honor recipient Clinton (“Clint”)
Romesha to Minneapolis on Tuesday, Nov. 10 as the company paused to
honor its military veterans and active duty employees in
recognition of Veterans Day.
Richard Davis, chairman, president and chief executive officer
of U.S. Bancorp, has hosted an annual Veterans Day call for the
past 7 years. The call is tied to the company’s Proud to Serve
group, which manages all of the ways that U.S. Bank supports,
respects and gives back to the men and women of the armed services.
Richard (“Dick”) Payne co-hosted the call. Payne is a veteran, vice
chairman and co-founder of Proud to Serve at U.S. Bank.
“This day of honor and respect for our brave military personnel
is special to U.S. Bank because every employee in our company knows
the lengths to which these men and women have sacrificed for our
safety and freedom,” Davis said. “It is an honor and a pleasure to
say ‘thank you,’ to celebrate these American heroes and to
introduce new ways in which U.S. Bank is supporting veterans.”
Medal of HonorRomesha, who today lives in North Dakota
with his family, was given the Medal of Honor in 2013 for his acts
of bravery during a Taliban attack in Afghanistan in 2009. Romesha
risked his own life to organize his unit’s defenses and counter
attack during an 8-hour barrage. He shared his story with U.S. Bank
employees during the Veterans Day call.
This year, U.S. Bank announced its $100,000 sponsorship of the
Medal of Honor Convention, which will be held in Minneapolis in the
fall of 2016.
Business Resource GroupsU.S. Bank has launched three new
chapters of the Proud to Serve Business Resource Group (BRG) in
Cincinnati, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. Proud to Serve BRGs are
employee-led and provide valuable business input, opportunities to
volunteer with military service organizations and opportunities to
attend professional development seminars.
In October, U.S. Bank Proud to Serve placed 4th out of more than
500 applicants in the Association of Employee Resource Groups &
Councils Honors Award program. The ERG & Councils Honors Award
recognizes outstanding employee resource groups and diversity
councils at companies across the country.
More than 1,700 military veterans work at U.S. Bank today. The
company hired more than 340 veterans in 2015 through Bankers in
Boots, its veteran hiring initiative. Each veteran hired is
personally welcomed by the U.S. Bank Global Inclusion and Diversity
team, a designated military recruiter and a member of the Proud to
Serve Steering Committee.
In addition, this year U.S. Bank:
- donated homes to wounded veterans and
their families in Apopka, Florida and Washougal, Washington; the
next home will be donated to a wounded veteran on November 18 in La
Grange, Kentucky (total now stands at 10 since 2013);
- added an employee volunteer program to
teach financial education and job-search skills to veterans;
- offered credit card customers a way to
donate points to Honor Flight, a nonprofit organization that
transports veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit their war
memorials;
- began tracking partnerships with
veteran-owned businesses as part of its supplier diversity program;
and
- this holiday season, employees are
collecting supplies and sending holiday cards to deployed
troops.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $416 billion in assets as of
September 30, 2015, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the
fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States. The company
operates 3,151 banking offices in 25 states and 5,001 ATMs, and
provides a comprehensive line of banking, investment, mortgage,
trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and
institutions. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web at www.usbank.com.
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U.S. Bank Corporate CommunicationsTeri Charest,
612-303-0732teri.charest@usbank.com
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