We do not often work with the military, but we had a rare opportunity recently to produce a video for the Virginia Beach-based Dolphin Scholarship Foundation.

For the past 55 years, the foundation has provided scholarship assistance to dependents of men, and now women, who serve on Navy submarines.

The first was John Haines who attended Citadel, then earned a law degree at UVA, which led him into a legal career working for the Panama Canal Commission.

Hundreds of young people have earned scholarships since, including Aaron Banasiewicz. His was endowed by Richard Miksad, a UVA physics professor whose brother died during the tragic and still mysterious sinking of the USS Scorpion in 1968.

If you know of a young person with a parent or step parent who is an officer or crewman in the Silent Service, urge him or her to go to www.dolphinscholarship.org and learn how to apply for funds, which are distributed based on grades, community service, essays and other merit based qualifications.

For this video we worked with the Navy to get on base and shoot in front of a submarine resting at a pier. Several scholarship recipients and their parents met us at the site for interviews.

Thank you, Executive Director Andrew Clark, and the Dolphin Board of Directors for your confidence in Rubin Communications Group.

Watch the video here: