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A group of Department of Defense civilians recently visited the 136th Airlift Wing as part of the Executive Leadership Development Program, or ELDP.

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Deployment Leader Andrea Stauffer, tells us how the program works.

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This program is sponsored by the Department of Defense, and in this particular one we have 61 people from all over the globe who are participating and deploying throughout the world for ten months

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so that we can learn from all the armed services, what they do, what their challenges are, what their capabilities are, so that when we go back to our home station, we can better support them and better support them as they become future leaders.

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Andrea said the program helped her learn how to better support military families.

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My focus is going to be to make sure that I am looking at what they need and what their families need so that they can concentrate on their job and their mission so that they can support what they need to do to support and defend our nation.

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Reporting from Naval Air Station, Fort Worth, Joint Reserve Base, I'm Tech Sergeant Vanessa Reed.