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One of the best parts about being a

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reservist is that you made the decision

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to like join the unit and get to stay .

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I know for us we found the mission that

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we love doing . Like I love teaching

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people how to fly . That's what I want

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to do . It's what I wake up in the

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morning wanting to do , and getting to

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fly is just a gift . So being able to

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stay in a flying community , in a

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teaching community in a place that we

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love has been the best part of being a

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reservist and . Yeah , I want to change

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it for the world . My name is Ron Todd .

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I'm a major . I've been in for 14 years

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and I'm one of the T6 instructor pilots

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here . With the 5th adds to the overall

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readiness of the Air Force , it's ,

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it's just that experience that we have

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of being able to get students that

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might be struggling , um , take those

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students with a step by step , make

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sure that they're ready to go to the

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Air Force , that they are able to do

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that , having the experience to know ,

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um , the student can be , uh , the

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student can make it across the finish

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line and the student can't , and just

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helpingle like experience those hard

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decisions that leadership has to make

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is um something that the Fed does very

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well . Having been out in the Air Force

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and flown a couple of different

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aircraft operationally , uh , you

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understand the mission set that's out

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there and what you're preparing the

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students for , so they're , it's a

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little bit easier for them to relate ,

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um , stories of what they're gonna go

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do and it kind of motivates the

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students as well to know what's ahead

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of them . Even as a reservist doing

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this for almost a decade , students

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will ask questions that you won't know

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the answer to , and I think just being

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able to be approached approach them in

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a humble , credible way , continuously

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learning , we never stop learning ,

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never stop learning how to teach

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something in a new way , maybe in a

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better way than what we've done , and

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just being willing to change , learn

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and incorporate that and pass that on

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to the next generation of instructors

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is really important .