WEBVTT 00:00.040 --> 00:02.262 Hi , I'm Lynn Reed , I'm Randall Reed's 00:02.262 --> 00:04.429 best friend . And we were at the email 00:04.429 --> 00:07.240 from 2012 to 2014 and I was in the 00:07.240 --> 00:10.060 email in 2012-2014 with my best friend 00:10.710 --> 00:12.450 as the wing commander there . 00:16.540 --> 00:18.970 When we first arrived at the email , we 00:18.970 --> 00:21.303 were actually what I called Class three . 00:21.303 --> 00:24.000 So the first class established tomato . 00:24.000 --> 00:26.520 The second class kept it , we had 00:26.520 --> 00:28.742 conversations with them and they said , 00:28.742 --> 00:30.798 you're free to change it , you might 00:30.798 --> 00:32.687 want to . First of all , I had to 00:32.687 --> 00:34.742 figure out what the five 21st a mile 00:34.742 --> 00:36.798 was and when he told me that it went 00:36.798 --> 00:39.020 all the way from the Azores over to the 00:39.020 --> 00:41.260 Middle East , I'm just like , my 00:41.270 --> 00:43.381 goodness , you kept asking me what is 00:43.381 --> 00:45.381 it that you do ? And at the time we 00:45.381 --> 00:47.480 said command and control , early 00:47.480 --> 00:49.750 support and maintenance . Um , knowing 00:49.750 --> 00:51.972 that there was more than that . And she 00:51.972 --> 00:54.083 challenged me on that as well . So we 00:54.083 --> 00:56.810 decided that we needed to brand the 00:56.820 --> 00:59.650 five 21st . We wanted to make sure that 00:59.660 --> 01:01.882 everyone who was part of the wing could 01:01.882 --> 01:03.660 identify with whatever it was , 01:03.660 --> 01:05.771 communicate to folks . We just wanted 01:05.771 --> 01:07.938 to make sure that it was shorter . The 01:07.938 --> 01:07.420 other piece to this is whatever the 01:07.420 --> 01:10.400 motto came to be . We also didn't want 01:10.400 --> 01:12.690 to conflict with the motto and the 01:12.690 --> 01:14.412 identities that the individual 01:14.412 --> 01:16.560 squadrons and the debts already had . 01:17.540 --> 01:19.540 And so that started this journey of 01:19.540 --> 01:21.429 trying to figure it out . We were 01:21.429 --> 01:23.651 coming up against time where we figured 01:23.651 --> 01:25.984 we really needed to establish something . 01:25.984 --> 01:27.984 He said , hey , let's , let's go to 01:27.984 --> 01:30.040 lunch and let's finish this . By the 01:30.040 --> 01:31.818 time we finish lunch , lend our 01:31.818 --> 01:34.310 youngest son and I um we went to think 01:34.310 --> 01:38.140 it was chilies . It was chilly here on 01:38.140 --> 01:40.251 the base . So if you can just imagine 01:40.251 --> 01:42.307 napkin after napkin after napkin was 01:42.307 --> 01:45.180 scribbling going on and we were just 01:45.190 --> 01:47.357 trying to figure out what works . Just 01:47.357 --> 01:49.523 went with every bit of combination you 01:49.523 --> 01:51.412 could think of . You know , we go 01:51.412 --> 01:53.634 farther , we cover the globe , we cover 01:53.634 --> 01:55.801 this part of the world , just just all 01:55.801 --> 01:57.912 of those things and nothing seemed to 01:57.912 --> 01:59.968 work . And then um , Lynn said , you 01:59.968 --> 02:01.968 know when it comes to a brand , you 02:01.968 --> 02:03.968 have to go to the core and over the 02:03.968 --> 02:07.050 course of conversation , something just 02:07.050 --> 02:09.550 fell out as the family was talking 02:11.680 --> 02:15.000 and it became depend on us . And we all 02:15.000 --> 02:17.440 kind of paused and then we kept talking 02:17.440 --> 02:19.440 and we kept talking . Finally , our 02:19.440 --> 02:22.320 youngest son said , what was it that 02:22.320 --> 02:24.810 you came up with before ? Depend on us . 02:24.990 --> 02:27.046 And he said , why don't you just say 02:27.046 --> 02:30.150 that ? It was a family affair . 02:32.690 --> 02:34.840 The beauty of that was depend on us . 02:35.020 --> 02:37.690 It's three words . And it doesn't 02:37.690 --> 02:39.801 matter if you're commanding control , 02:39.801 --> 02:41.801 aerial ports , maintenance . And it 02:41.801 --> 02:43.857 doesn't matter what you do . Even if 02:43.857 --> 02:47.380 you're deployed to the 5:21 . Everybody 02:47.380 --> 02:49.780 fits and depend on us at the end of the 02:49.780 --> 02:52.002 day . That's what we were looking for , 02:52.002 --> 02:54.210 is to to bind everybody together into 02:54.210 --> 02:56.090 one cohesive family . And the 02:56.090 --> 02:58.850 simplicity of it . Uh , it just took 02:58.850 --> 03:02.710 off like wildfire . Yeah , it was 03:02.710 --> 03:04.432 just a magical moment for us . 03:06.640 --> 03:09.560 Keep doing what you're doing . Email is 03:09.560 --> 03:12.310 fantastic . Five 21st a mile . Best 03:12.320 --> 03:15.240 wing in the Air Force . And so I'm all 03:15.240 --> 03:17.296 I'm your best , I'm one of your best 03:17.296 --> 03:19.518 cheerleaders . I can't say enough about 03:19.518 --> 03:21.840 the airmen across the board . I've got 03:21.840 --> 03:23.951 a handle on it . And we're doing some 03:23.951 --> 03:26.720 stuff . Our friends , our allies , our 03:26.720 --> 03:30.220 partners , our citizens , our national 03:30.220 --> 03:32.330 interests are depending on the fact 03:32.330 --> 03:35.220 that we're here in order to allow us 03:35.220 --> 03:37.390 forces to leave the United States and 03:37.390 --> 03:40.540 be somewhere else . Mobility is key and 03:40.540 --> 03:41.540 we're 03:48.840 --> 03:50.280 Mhm , mm hmm .