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ranging from a small church in south dakota to ford motor company will be honored by the department of defense with the freedom award, this honor goes to businesses that strongly support employees who belong to the national guard and reserves and joining us right now is pat callahan of wells fargo and david mcguiness, the acting assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. good morning to both of you. good morning. david, let s start with you. what is this award program honoring different companies for? the employers support the national committee for employer support to the guard and reserve was established quite sometime ago, back in the mid 1970 s to educate and assist employers in understanding their relationships with employers who were members of the guard and reserve and as that program evolved, we realized that we have some wonderful employers out there that should be recognized at the national level. that s right. so one of those employers is wells fargo a
person is a member of the guard. if they get called up, they ll have to be gone and we have to keep the job open. you pay them as well because why? because these are our good team members. these are people who are involved with their community, you know, they ve got high integrity. they work hard and we want our team members and their families to be ok while these while these people are gone supporting the country and then we want them to come back. right now, we have 245 of our employees who are deployed. right now. very good. they re serving their nation and they re getting paid by wells fargo. you can t beat that. yes. david and pat, thank you very much. you ll have a long day. you have a gala tonight at the ronald reagan building in washington at 7:30 so get dressed up and have a nice time tonight. thank you very much. thank you very much. that s terrific. all right, straight ahead, how old is too old to live with your mom and dad? you re about to find out from the
what does your company do for members of the reserve, pat? we have thousands of team members who are members of the guard and reserve and when they re deployed, we make them whole with their salaries through two years of deployment. so, you know, make up the difference between their military pay and the pay they would have received at our company at wells fargo. ok, david, as mandated by law, an employer has got to keep somebody s job open, right? but they re not obligated to pay them the salary, are they? no, and there s a lot of things they re not obligated to do other than keep the job open. but these employers and employers across the country are continuing to serve with the guards and reservists over the last 10 years. employers are part of the total force. they re serving and it s really impressive and the folks tonight are the best of the best that represent over 4,000 nominees from across the country and the nominations come from the members of the guard and reserve thems