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I've been here since uh November of

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last year . So right before

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Thanksgiving , um I've been in almost

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17 years . It'll be 17 years in October .

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Um I started off on the enlisted side ,

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so I was logistics and then I was the

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MT I for about three years and then I

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commissioned into finance . And so my

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primary a sc is a finance officer . I ,

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I definitely get excited when um I have

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somebody who admits to me how they're ,

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they're not tuned in to maybe the

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operations world or not tuned in to big

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picture Air Force . And then we can get ,

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you know , 15 students in the classroom

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along with me and we can have a

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conversation and discussion and I love

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when you can tell they get that light

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bulb moment that they see how it

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connects to them and that clicks for

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them . And then I learned from them as

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well because I'm not in those specific

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career fields . So I only know what I

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know based off of my experiences , but

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seeing them connect dots with each

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other and seeing other students provide

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a different way um that that person can

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look at things so maybe you get in your

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little bubble , you're like , I only

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see it like this and it was like , OK ,

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let's reword it like this . Think about

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you in the hospital doing this or think

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about um you in the stock control room

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as supply and you're doing this and

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then make that connection to the bigger

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picture . Air Force . I want everybody

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to feel involved . I want everybody to

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understand that every role no matter

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what your job is . So it's about

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getting that out and getting them to

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understand that we are helping

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educate uh future leaders as well as

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them educating us as future leaders .

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We're all gonna be um you know , in

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different leadership positions . So you

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learn , you teach them but you still

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learn from them and you learn from 14

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to 15 different people at a time . And

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then on the professional side , um S OS

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is very big in uh the faculty

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experience and growing us outside of

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the classroom if you will . So that

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when you go out , you're not just

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having the S OS experience and stuff

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that you learn , but you also have

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gotten so many other tools for your

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tool belt . Like I said , it is a

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hidden gem . I am so grateful that I

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applied . I'm so grateful that I'm here .

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Um It's definitely has been the best

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job in the Air Force for me in , in my

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short time of seven months .