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Thunderbird Challenge program is what

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we like to describe as a leadership

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program for the sons and daughters of

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Oklahoma . Uh Our goal is is to improve

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on them , improve their leadership

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skills and help them complete their

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school work while they're here with us

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for six months today , we're working on

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building discipline and facing some

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fears and working uh as a group

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and communicating together , getting

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over obstacles . That is just basically

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a work with your life . You have to

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learn to overcome obstacles and fears

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and that's our goal today . The most

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positive thing I've had lately would be

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just meeting all the new cadre ,

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meeting new kids , just learning a

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bunch of new stuff . We try to overcome

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all obstacles in life that you're going

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to face and learning to be disciplined

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enough to know that you can survive and

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make it through . I think it's

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important for the cadets to understand

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that we're there because we care . Uh

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That's our primary focus is because we

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do care . We wanna see them succeed and

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we continue to do that as they , as

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they leave our residential program .

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This definitely helps teach us

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discipline teaches you life skills and

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how to just move on from that and not

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just look back at all the stuff that

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you've been through , you just learn to

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push forward in the future . Great

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future , it's all positive , it's

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motivating .