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mhm Yeah . Hello and welcome

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to around the Air Force . This week we

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kick off women's history month around

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the country in a military installations

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worldwide . Women's history month ,

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officially started in March 2000 by

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order of then-President Bill Clinton ,

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he encouraged all Americans to observe

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this month with appropriate programs ,

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ceremonies and activities . The air

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force follows suit honoring the long

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history that women have with the

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youngest military service . To fully

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honour women's contribution to the Air

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Force and Air Force design team have

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created a special page on Air Force

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link , log on to www dot af dot M . I L .

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And click on the Women's History month

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link to find out more the U . S . Air

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Force Thunderbirds inspire people

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around the world . Tech Sergeant steve

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Jurman introduces us to a Canadian

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artist who took that inspiration to

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another level over the weekend at the

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shell before 27 Nascar race in Las

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Vegas Nevada , the U . S . Military was

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on display a Canadian artist . David

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Arrigo was asked to paint a Shelby

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mustang with a Las Vegas theme because

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the Thunderbirds are based here . It

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had a major influence in the paint

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scheme . Initially , when we discussed

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the car was going to be purely a Las

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Vegas style with the motor raceway in

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the background and somebody had said ,

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you know what crossing the thunderbird

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since you guys are tied in closely with

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the , with the track and as you can see

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we took it to the next extreme and

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there's all Thunderbirds is now called

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the Thunderbird Shelby . Once finished

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the mustang will be sent back to Shelby

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for a clear coat and then will be

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auctioned off reporting from the las

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Vegas motor speedway . I'm tech

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sergeant steve Jurman las Vegas Nevada

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From California . More than 200

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representatives of small businesses

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from across the nation attended Edwards

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Air Force Base is small business

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seminar last week , the gathering

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served as an opportunity for small

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business representatives to learn about

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Edwards mission from senior leaders .

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Small businesses are the source of

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innovation . They're the source of

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agility and responsiveness and they

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really are efficient means of getting

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work done across the Air Force .

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They're incredibly important component

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of the industrial base to support the

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Air Force and its mission to fly ,

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fight and win at Langley Air Force Base

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Virginia Air Combat Command developed a

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program called Heart Link . Heart Link

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is a quarterly gathering at different A .

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Cc bases and provides an ideal place

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for new spouses to connect with each

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other . When spouses attend this event ,

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what we find is they form friendships

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that last forever and so when their

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spouse deploys , they usually reach out

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to a spouse that they've met during

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Harling spouses orientation at

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Ramstein Air Base in Germany , the

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first term Airman Center helps the

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newest members of the Air Force with

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the transition from training to the

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mission . It's also a chance to get

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some advice from the people who have

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been there and done that first

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sergeants from around Ramstein met with

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a batch of new airmen to show them how

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the Air Force works . And one of the

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things of coming on this base is

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basically letting them know the good

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the bad and the ugly of what's going on

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in the KMc arena . But we want to let

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them know that we are a source of one

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of the main resources of making sure

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that they have a productive Air Force

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career . There are many facets to the

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Air Force mission , from flying planes

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to building tent cities for deployed

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Airman . Richard Lewis has this report

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on the most vocal part of the Air Force

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mission and how it helped a group of

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inner city youth in Los Angeles . Blue

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steel plays for a group of inner city

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youth at Art share . Los Angeles which

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operates out of a converted warehouse

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in the downtown arts district . Art

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share is an incubator for local and

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emerging artists and what we're in

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after school center . So we have

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different programs here for youth . We

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provide free arts classes for low

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income teams ,

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for

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the Air Force performance is something

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really exciting . It's totally new to

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our chair . It gives us a chance to

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really connect on a much more human

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level . It it

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it's nice to have people from the U . S .

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Air Force come in and share their

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telling with us reporting from downtown

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Los Angeles in the arts district . I'm

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Richard Lewis for more on today's top

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stories , log onto Air Force link