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You can't really understand what flying

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is like and what flying is like in a

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jet until you've done it . And it is

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something looking around the clouds ,

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looking around just at the world below

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and pulling some crazy maneuvers . It ,

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I remember being up there and the whole

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time I was just speechless General

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Brown . He has said this in multiple

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open forums , public forums while he is

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speaking and talking about his

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experience and he mentioned his own jet

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orientation flight . He had gotten an

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Air Force ROTC scholarship out of high

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school school with the intent of coming

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on active duty as a civil engineer

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officer serving four years and going

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back home to Texas up until one moment

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in time when he got a jet orientation

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ride . And he will tell you in his

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words that that one flight changed his

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life ever since I was a kid , I always

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dreamed of being a pilot . And that

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took me down a path and I felt very

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shaky about military service . I didn't

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feel like I had the confidence for it ,

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but I faced some challenges down and I

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found out that I did have the

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confidence for it and I could do it .

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And I've just been wondering with that

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ever since . Although the flight is the

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incentive , it's actually an

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introduction to the operational side of

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the mission from an air force

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perspective and from that air

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mindedness perspective . And what does

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it mean to be an airman ? What better

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way to know what it means to be an

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airman than to actually have

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experienced something in the air .

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Everything that I have learned at this

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point in my own experience has taught

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me if someone is struggling , it is

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your obligation to go help them and

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share your knowledge . But at the same

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time balancing that with , you can't

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always just give them the answer

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because they need to think that's what

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we need . As the air force already sees

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as future leaders , we have to have

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people that can figure out the answer .

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I'm not creating a super cadet . I'm

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actually creating second lieutenants

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who our nation expects to fight and win

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our nation's wars when their time comes

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and we want to deliberately develop

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them so that as they come on active

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duty , as second lieutenants that they

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already have a sense of what it means

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to be a part of the profession of arms ,

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if they can get some of that exposure .

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Now , when it matters the most , it

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won't be the first time they've ever

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seen it .