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- Okay.

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So here's what's going on.

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So, I bagged groceries in Ramstein in 1975.

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- Seriously.

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- And my first boss when I was in high school was Charlie.

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So, Charlie wants to know if I still got it.

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So can I bag your groceries for you?

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- [Soldier] Yes Sir.

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- [Narrator] After visiting several Air Force

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installations in the Middle East.

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- Hey Charlie.

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- [Narrator] General Goldfein

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has time for one last visit with an old friend.

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The General is just one of hundreds of baggers

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since the 70's that Charlie has trained.

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Which is impressive.

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But his memory of his baggers

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and their lives afterward is incredible.

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- A lot of colonels, a lot of chiefs they all come back.

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- Yeah?

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- But they don't forget their first job.

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- That's right.

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- [Narrator] It would seem Charlie isn't just training

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employees, he's training Airmen.

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- Yeah, it just comes back to you like it was yesterday.

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How old are you now?

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- Almost 80.

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^Here's the old commissary.

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- Oh yeah.

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^(Commissary noises)

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^- [Charlie] That's the guy who hired me.

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^- [General] Paper or plastic?

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(Laughing)

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- Sir. (laughing)

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- I'm serious.

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- Plastic.

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- Plastic, alright.

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You make me feel like I should be bagging.

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(Laughing)

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- It's my privilege, an honor.

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- So we're teaching a course tomorrow.

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A flight leaders course.

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So this is going to be an example that I use about

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serving leadership.

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- Thank you, man.

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- Pleased to meet you.

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- Great meeting you.

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- [Narrator] Perhaps General Goldfein first learned

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about service before self in a place like this.

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And perhaps Charlie's teaching that lesson

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to the future Chief of Staff.

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- [General] So how much longer you

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going to keep working here?

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- [Charlie] Well, as long as my health holds up.

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Why should I stop?

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- You gotta raise the next generation of Generals.

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- Oh no.

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- [Narrator] Senior Airmen Nicholas Crisp,

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Ramstein Air Base, Germany.