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So every 32 echo comes through

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management 101 that is the badge

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earning course . And so what we're

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trying to do is we're trying to gear

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them up and prepare them to be ready

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for the Great power competition .

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That's the hot topic in the career

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field . It's a hot topic amongst most

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career fields right now . So what we're

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doing is we're specifically revamped

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the course to get after the Secretary

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of the Air Force's operational

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imperatives that directly deal with

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that great power competition .

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Specifically operational imperative ,

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five , resilient , basing and

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operational imperative seven which is

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preparing to deploy and fight . So what

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we've done with the course is we've

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focused on giving the class lead and a

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lot of our leadership positions within

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the course , more mission command

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opportunities to execute troop leading

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procedures and small teams . We've

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asked them to execute quite a few tasks

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that normally in the past , we've just

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directed as cadre from there trying to

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get directly after O I five , the

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resilient basing , we've completely

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revamped our air base planning exercise ,

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our Capstone project to kind of align

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with those efforts in the Pacific . And

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then specifically to get after that

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operational imperative , we have

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revamped off . So we've revamped

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management 101 to really focus on the

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threats that we face today . And we do

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this through task boards . Fragos and

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awards that give tasks to our engineer

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teams and our flights to complete tasks

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in and out of the classroom in the

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classroom . They're doing radio

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procedures , they're doing mop gear

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checks , they're doing new lessons such

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as camouflage , concealment and

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deception and then outside the

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classroom . Like here at officer field

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education , uh they're leading small

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teams throughout the week . We've been

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asked to accomplish many different

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tasks that we've had here during our

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time at 101 , whether it be a bag drag

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or it be a recall roster or to get out

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the door for OFV , as well as all the

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different practicums that we've been

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tasked to do that establish who's going

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to lead and have that opportunity to

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learn as leaders and grow as

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officers at one on one . So one big

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change we made to get after the

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operational imperatives was to our one

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on one Capstone project cape , that's

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our contingency airbase planning

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exercise . Uh And that's where our

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engineers are creating an entire bed

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down plan from scratch . So looking at

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anything from site development to site

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layout , to power distribution and uh

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uh water distribution and anybody who's

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been through uh 101 already will

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remember their K project . Uh This is

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the first time in about 20 years that

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we're shifting our focus from the

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Middle East and looking at the Pacific

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now . And so dealing with a new threat ,

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uh new regulations , new constraints ,

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uh a whole new location . And so what

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we're seeing from the students right

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now uh is great , a lot of new ideas

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emerging , a lot of creativity , which

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is exactly what you want to see as an

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instructor . And we're hoping to

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present those ideas to back as uh to

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hopefully help them in the future .

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We're enabling students to lead while

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ofe by organizing them and engineer

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teams . While at right path , they

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practice plan and prepare together for

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the deployment here to the silver flag

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training site . While here they operate

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together with different scenarios in a

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contested contingency environment and

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practice . Enlisted wartime tasks .

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I've been tasked with the opportunity

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to lead an engineering team and to

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prepare them for contingency effort .

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We've been doing different skill

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related tests to help prepare for that .

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And the cadre has definitely put us in

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good position . So I've been making

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sure that everyone gets the information

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that is needed and that we're able to

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put together the projects , whether

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it's uh preparing airfields for uh

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repair or developing bed downs for the

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actual encampment . These are the

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opportunities that I've been given as

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engineering team lead to push everyone

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forward o instruction in the past where

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students from multiple mass have come

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to received training from Silver flag

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cadre where they have to perform those

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on their exercise day without cadre

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assistance so that they can receive a

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30 level badge on their graduation day .

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Now , the officers come down to Tindal

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Air Force Base at the Silver Flag

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exercise site to conduct an eight day

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field exercise . They hit the ground

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running on day one , constructing a

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camp that they're going to sleep in for

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the remainder of the exercise . The

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exercise continues through consisting

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of phases of agile combat employment ,

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giving these officers the skills and

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abilities to go for and employ a

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concept . I'm proud to share that the

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civil engineer school has followed

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through to accelerate change by

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updating our curriculum for management

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101 , both in the classroom , as well

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as out here at Officer Field education

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where we've rebranded it to crisis

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contingency response , installation

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support initial skills . Ultimately ,

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what we're hoping is that students are

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going to feel a lot more comfortable

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and our 32 echoes are going to feel a

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lot more comfortable once they leave

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here , leading small teams and being in

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charge when there are limited resources ,

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quite a few constraints and limited

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reach back capabilities . So that's

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kind of how we're revamping the entire

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course to meet those imperatives .