WEBVTT 00:04.040 --> 00:10.630 The Research into the air national guard sitting together for 00:10.630 --> 00:13.720 lunch meeting with the outstanding airman of the year for Maya what. 00:14.340 --> 00:17.730 Tour tears these two senior leaders don't get as much time together 00:17.730 --> 00:21.150 as you would think soul following an invite from the IO what 00:21.150 --> 00:24.230 air national guard lieutenant general stanley clarke and chief 00:24.230 --> 00:27.680 master sergeant jim or tailing spent part of their weekend together 00:27.710 --> 00:28.740 in america's heartland. 00:29.330 --> 00:32.890 They visited the newly remission one 30 second wing and when 00:33.230 --> 00:35.950 and the one 80 fifth air refueling wing in sioux city. 00:37.310 --> 00:39.990 Part because the U.S. going through a bit conversion. 00:40.540 --> 00:44.420 Emission of greater manilow recognize we're coming together and 00:44.530 --> 00:46.690 have an opportunity to observe the unit talk to. 00:47.240 --> 00:50.800 Numbers should be some questions should recognize some outstanding performance. 00:51.240 --> 00:55.080 It was a time to make connections necessary for sound. Well canceled 00:55.080 --> 00:59.060 leadership when we're up world of policy decisions when we're 00:59.060 --> 01:02.810 in a world of making financial decisions all those things. 01:02.810 --> 01:06.010 We don't know the ralph occasions unless we talk to the real 01:06.040 --> 01:09.580 war fighters better on the ground performing the mission larger 01:09.580 --> 01:12.620 wings formations to more intimate gatherings. They balls took 01:12.620 --> 01:16.240 time to present their leadership platforms but just as importantly 01:16.340 --> 01:19.290 they heard the stories from the front lines of today's air force. 01:19.650 --> 01:22.900 They encouraged. I was young and an to blase new paths honed 01:22.900 --> 01:26.250 their skills demand and their voices be heard by senior leaders 01:26.360 --> 01:30.300 are and how they developed their own sense of duty and responsibility 01:30.300 --> 01:34.230 question from a very first time. I was a supervisor I put the 01:34.230 --> 01:38.060 bilious say I have to leave it at one level higher at all times. 01:38.090 --> 01:39.820 I've got to be a leader. 01:40.340 --> 01:43.540 For my airmen that story when I was a step started because that's 01:43.540 --> 01:46.860 what they deserve the isle where national guard a one to the 01:46.860 --> 01:50.540 last time we can't and proof their leaders are watching listening 01:50.800 --> 01:54.200 and making their case at the highest levels of leadership because 01:54.200 --> 01:57.590 people are gonna go back to the separate units separate sections 01:57.620 --> 02:03.560 on and then the tell what what he hears spoken here today end 02:03.590 --> 02:07.610 and so other people will know all that he's got to stop Phantom 02:07.610 --> 02:12.700 chief that his is actually really carrying a box top the junior 02:12.700 --> 02:16.200 lasted from the I where national guard. I'm senior master sargent 02:16.200 --> 02:16.910 mike bitty..