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- [Narrator] Air Force Chief of Staff

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General David Goldfein along with members of

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South Carolina's Congressional Delegation

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visited McEntire Joint National Guard Base Friday.

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General Goldfein's visit marks the first time

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a sitting Air Force Chief of Staff has visited McEntire.

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In addition to meeting with senior South Carolina

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National Guard leaders and discussing the

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future basing of F-35s at McEntire,

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U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham says,

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- The whole purpose today is to try to

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explain to the Air Force and the Army

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how valuable this base is.

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Not only should we keep it open, we should actually expand

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the missions that we have here today.

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- [Narrator] One such mission General Goldfein learned about

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is Eagle Vision 4 which provides real time unclassified

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commercial imagery for use by the US military

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and government agencies.

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General Goldfein also witnessed

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McEntire's community involvement first hand.

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- We had a group of fifth and sixth graders here today

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talking about rockets and part of the STARBASE program

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getting them interested in the Air Force.

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So it is a culture within our country, a culture of service.

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And we encourage that through our community involvements.

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- [Narrator] General Goldfein also recognized several

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McEntire Airmen for outstanding performance in their duties.

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- We could not do the mission of the United State Air Force

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in support of our nation's objectives,

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we could not do the mission

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were it not for the Air National Guard.

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And I'll also tell you, we could not perform the mission

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at the level that we do, were it not for the

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professionalism of this very unit.

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The leadership here is just fantastic.

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I'm 100% confident in the combat capability and the

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legality of this unit.

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It's an honor to be back.