WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:01.233 - Oh gosh. 00:01.430 --> 00:04.883 - Three legged dog walks into an old western saloon, 00:05.280 --> 00:08.203 sits at the bar, looks at the barkeeper and says, 00:09.260 --> 00:11.713 I'm looking for the man who shot my paw. 00:14.570 --> 00:18.513 - No, no, I don't want to give that a laugh. 00:19.010 --> 00:21.160 I'm not, that's why I'm not looking at you. 00:21.336 --> 00:23.419 (laughs) 00:24.646 --> 00:25.479 But I get it. 00:25.479 --> 00:26.400 - That's my new favorite joke. 00:26.400 --> 00:27.233 - I get it. 00:27.233 --> 00:28.066 - Of all time. 00:28.150 --> 00:30.193 - It's a joke. 00:30.193 --> 00:32.276 (laughs) 00:34.308 --> 00:36.245 ♪ So let me see your reflective belt ♪ 00:36.245 --> 00:38.262 ♪ Let me see your reflective belt ♪ 00:38.262 --> 00:40.362 ♪ So let me see your reflective belt ♪ 00:40.362 --> 00:42.813 ♪ You better put it on, better better put it on ♪ 00:42.813 --> 00:44.763 ♪ You better put it on, better better put it on ♪ 00:44.763 --> 00:49.763 ♪ You better put it on, better better put it on ♪ 00:49.982 --> 00:54.873 - Welcome to a very special episode of The Reflective Belt. 00:55.087 --> 00:57.910 If anybody's paying attention you know we normally 00:57.910 --> 00:59.773 put these out every other Thursday. 01:01.620 --> 01:04.803 Catastrophic weather events excluded, 01:05.788 --> 01:08.050 so we would like to start off by saying you know, 01:08.050 --> 01:09.380 our thoughts are with everybody that's 01:09.380 --> 01:11.130 been effected by hurricane Michael, 01:11.530 --> 01:14.203 and everybody at Tyndall Air Force Base. 01:14.700 --> 01:17.853 It looks pretty bad out there so just continue to stay safe. 01:18.160 --> 01:21.883 General Holmes, COMACC, put out a statement earlier today, 01:22.610 --> 01:24.790 if you get a moment, check out his page 01:24.790 --> 01:26.140 and see what he had to say. 01:26.980 --> 01:28.070 - Hits home a little bit man. 01:28.070 --> 01:29.220 That was my first base. 01:29.760 --> 01:30.593 - I've never been there. 01:30.593 --> 01:34.913 - Yeah, I love it, it was a good base. 01:35.492 --> 01:39.053 Mainly because there was a beach on it so, 01:39.980 --> 01:41.440 yeah it hits home a little bit. 01:41.440 --> 01:43.070 I know some friends and stuff there, 01:43.070 --> 01:44.790 checked to make sure they were good. 01:44.790 --> 01:48.070 You know most of them you know they got out of there 01:48.070 --> 01:48.903 or something like that. 01:48.903 --> 01:50.477 But for those who did stay you know, 01:50.477 --> 01:52.590 it was a little difficult getting in touch with them, 01:52.590 --> 01:53.423 but they're good. 01:53.423 --> 01:54.910 - [SSgt Reynolds] That's good to hear. 01:54.910 --> 01:55.743 - Yeah. 01:55.990 --> 01:58.470 - Glad everybody got to a safe space, 01:58.470 --> 02:00.010 'cause this one hit a lot faster. 02:00.010 --> 02:00.843 - Yeah. 02:01.019 --> 02:03.040 - We kind of had to, we had a little scare here for Florence 02:03.040 --> 02:05.610 but we had plenty of time to prepare. 02:05.610 --> 02:06.520 - A lot of time. 02:06.520 --> 02:08.870 - This one it was just like, oh there's a hurricane, 02:08.870 --> 02:09.703 and the next thing I know. 02:09.703 --> 02:10.770 - And there it is. 02:10.770 --> 02:13.070 - They were like if you haven't evacuated yet, 02:13.070 --> 02:14.103 stay where you are. 02:14.335 --> 02:15.710 (laughs) 02:15.710 --> 02:20.070 So again, we'll have information on that up on our 02:20.070 --> 02:23.763 Facebook page, Twitter, as it becomes available. 02:24.160 --> 02:26.696 Right now I think they're still saying don't bother 02:26.696 --> 02:29.390 going back there right now, it's still not safe. 02:29.390 --> 02:31.760 - Stay where you are, please stay where you are. 02:31.760 --> 02:33.603 Until everything gets cleared up. 02:34.930 --> 02:37.670 - Alright, and then back to why we're doing this 02:37.670 --> 02:42.360 very special edition, making it a weekly podcast, 02:42.360 --> 02:44.123 instead of a bi-weekly podcast. 02:44.240 --> 02:45.940 - [Airman] At least for this time. 02:46.030 --> 02:50.317 - Bi-weekly, bi-lingual broadcast. 02:50.317 --> 02:51.380 - Bifocal. 02:51.380 --> 02:53.013 - Bifocal podcast. 02:53.720 --> 02:55.173 - Ah, see what we did there. 02:56.267 --> 03:00.950 - Chief, Command Chief of ACC, Chief Batten came in 03:00.950 --> 03:04.223 and I had the liberty to speak with him for a little bit, 03:04.700 --> 03:07.690 and we wanted to get this stuff out sooner 03:07.690 --> 03:10.580 rather than later 'cause we have quite a bit of interviews 03:10.580 --> 03:13.820 we need to get through here in the upcoming months 03:13.820 --> 03:15.520 leading up to the end of the year. 03:16.010 --> 03:21.010 So without further ado, your Command Chief, Chief Batten. 03:23.900 --> 03:28.600 Okay so, joining me today Command Chief, ACC, Chief Batten, 03:28.600 --> 03:29.593 welcome back sir. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.670 - Thanks, thanks for having me. 03:30.670 --> 03:31.920 - Thanks for coming back, 03:31.980 --> 03:36.440 as you can tell the new uniforms have finally arrived. 03:36.440 --> 03:37.786 - [Chief Batten] Got the OCPs on yes. 03:37.786 --> 03:38.619 - Got them OCPs. 03:38.619 --> 03:40.997 - And we brought reflective belts today so alls good. 03:40.997 --> 03:44.163 - We're always be reflecting, gotta stay safe. 03:44.213 --> 03:48.135 So Chief we'll go right to it, AFA was not too long ago, 03:48.135 --> 03:51.103 Chief Wright went up and he talked about some things, 03:51.140 --> 03:54.000 he spoke primarily about resiliency, 03:54.000 --> 03:55.900 which I have a feeling we'll get into. 03:56.013 --> 04:00.513 But upfront he talked a little bit about hybrid airmen, 04:00.570 --> 04:02.010 and hybrid airmen concept. 04:02.010 --> 04:03.210 And I'm gonna be honest, 04:03.770 --> 04:05.460 when I heard him talking about it all I could think 04:05.460 --> 04:06.853 about was Marines. 04:07.030 --> 04:08.850 A Marine's first job is to kill 04:08.970 --> 04:11.903 and then whatever else is his other job. 04:12.140 --> 04:14.090 Are we, how would that work for us? 04:14.090 --> 04:16.990 'Cause when you think of Airmen you don't typically think. 04:17.330 --> 04:20.010 - Yeah I think it works more in how we're talking about 04:20.010 --> 04:23.570 fighting future base fights with like adaptive basing 04:23.570 --> 04:26.176 and things so if let's say we have, 04:26.176 --> 04:31.176 we gotta drop F-22's, F-35's into some strip somewhere right 04:31.430 --> 04:35.180 so you're gonna have defenders go in clear the airstrip, 04:35.180 --> 04:37.430 make sure it's secure, we're gonna land some aircraft in, 04:37.430 --> 04:39.207 we're probably gonna have some POL guys there 04:39.207 --> 04:40.220 putting fuel in them. 04:40.220 --> 04:41.740 You're gonna have some weapons guys that are there 04:41.740 --> 04:43.860 loading weapons so you're gonna have more what we've 04:43.860 --> 04:48.560 done for many years where you're kind of checked out 04:48.560 --> 04:51.440 on other tasks you know like a sheet metal guy like myself 04:51.440 --> 04:53.640 can be checked out on some crew chief tasks, 04:53.770 --> 04:56.830 to where then I can help them out with something. 04:56.830 --> 04:58.535 So that's what I see it as. 04:58.535 --> 05:01.430 So maybe that POL guy's gonna maybe be the third man 05:01.430 --> 05:02.840 on the load crew or something like that, 05:02.840 --> 05:04.650 to help put munitions on an aircraft, 05:04.650 --> 05:05.860 to reload it, to get it out. 05:05.860 --> 05:07.920 Maybe the armament guy's gonna be the guy that's 05:07.920 --> 05:09.723 helping fueling aircraft. 05:09.723 --> 05:13.790 I don't see it as something that we're all gonna get 05:13.790 --> 05:15.463 cut trained on everything. 05:15.560 --> 05:17.510 Like I'm gonna get cut trained on doing interviews 05:17.510 --> 05:20.430 and your gonna get cut trained on doing what I do. 05:20.430 --> 05:23.780 So I think it's for more of that adaptive basing 05:23.780 --> 05:25.440 and the fight we're gonna have to fight in the future 05:25.440 --> 05:27.630 that you're gonna have to be able to do more 05:27.630 --> 05:28.853 than just your job. 05:28.940 --> 05:29.773 - Okay. 05:29.773 --> 05:30.990 - That's what I see it as. 05:31.013 --> 05:33.240 - Gonna have to get some more inter squadron communication 05:33.240 --> 05:35.800 going there 'cause as far as I remember. 05:35.800 --> 05:40.130 - Many squadrons in AFSE's functional areas, 05:40.130 --> 05:41.339 they do that now like I said, 05:41.339 --> 05:44.350 where they cut train somebody into a different portion 05:44.350 --> 05:47.720 of what they, whether it's not solely in their functional 05:47.720 --> 05:49.830 area maybe it's close to what they do. 05:49.830 --> 05:51.490 - Yeah, I've seen that a lot in maintenance. 05:51.490 --> 05:55.050 Outside of maintenance, not a whole lot, 05:55.050 --> 05:56.580 so I'd be interested to see it. 05:56.580 --> 05:58.340 And yeah, I don't think it's a bad idea. 05:58.340 --> 06:00.370 - But I mean if you think sometimes right, 06:00.370 --> 06:02.650 so even security forces augmentees right I mean 06:02.650 --> 06:03.960 that's a cut train right. 06:03.960 --> 06:08.960 So if I have a personnelist or I have a civil engineer guy 06:09.440 --> 06:12.020 that I need to go out and sit in a defensive fighting 06:12.020 --> 06:14.260 DFP you know what I mean, 06:14.260 --> 06:15.880 he can sit out there and guard a base, 06:15.880 --> 06:17.970 he can work the flight line, things like that. 06:17.970 --> 06:19.840 You know what I mean, so we do a little bit of it, 06:19.840 --> 06:21.390 heck even when I was at Misawa, 06:21.560 --> 06:23.200 you know we have people that are trained up 06:23.200 --> 06:25.343 that are on snow removal teams you know what I mean 06:25.343 --> 06:27.980 that was primarily kind of like a roads and grounds 06:27.980 --> 06:32.200 or a dirtboy type of a job, but you can train people on it. 06:32.200 --> 06:33.600 But you're absolutely correct, 06:33.600 --> 06:36.343 it's not something that's widely done across the Air Force. 06:37.488 --> 06:39.700 - And then another thing he spoke about was 06:40.240 --> 06:41.883 enlisted PME changes. 06:41.906 --> 06:45.189 And I guess all of them are getting, 06:45.189 --> 06:47.710 I don't know if they're wiping the board clean with 06:47.710 --> 06:48.900 everything and starting over, 06:48.900 --> 06:50.453 or they're just revamping everything. 06:50.453 --> 06:52.780 - No I think what we're talking more is going 06:52.780 --> 06:57.780 and doing an actual beginning to end review you know 06:58.270 --> 06:59.913 and really determining what the, 07:00.320 --> 07:02.290 I think over time what we've dealing with our 07:02.290 --> 07:04.020 enlisted professional military education, 07:04.020 --> 07:05.580 it might be the same on the officer side 07:05.580 --> 07:07.180 I'm just not as attuned with it, 07:07.550 --> 07:10.250 is we've added things, we've taken some things away, 07:10.250 --> 07:13.360 and we just kind of plug and play versus going 07:13.360 --> 07:15.053 and saying what is the outcome. 07:15.200 --> 07:18.130 What is it that I need a Staff Sergeant, Tech Sergeant, 07:18.130 --> 07:21.693 Master Sergeant to be ready to do when they're finished, 07:21.710 --> 07:23.800 what am I getting out of this course. 07:23.800 --> 07:25.553 And then putting the things into that course that 07:25.553 --> 07:27.403 will get us to the end product. 07:27.561 --> 07:30.793 Focus on readiness, focus on you know, 07:30.960 --> 07:34.640 I've asked for a little bit of even functional focus 07:34.640 --> 07:36.410 you know what I mean you know where we can teach people 07:36.410 --> 07:39.453 how to be professionals within their core functional groups. 07:39.770 --> 07:42.900 But that's what we're looking at is kind of beginning 07:42.900 --> 07:45.830 to end review and how they translate right. 07:45.830 --> 07:48.830 So how you go from ALS and how maybe an NCOPE 07:48.830 --> 07:52.020 to an NCO academy to a Senior NCOPE to a 07:52.020 --> 07:54.060 Senior NCO academy on to a Chief leadership course 07:54.060 --> 07:56.060 and how they all kind of string together 07:56.080 --> 07:58.830 and get you a final product of what you're looking for. 07:59.160 --> 08:04.063 - I have a very probably dumb idea for it, 08:04.140 --> 08:06.590 and it only comes up because I've seen this, 08:06.590 --> 08:08.470 we go through all these trainings and I'm sitting there 08:08.470 --> 08:11.310 and I'm like, more so in my old job, 08:11.310 --> 08:12.540 but still it happens today, 08:12.540 --> 08:14.840 people will be like hey make an Excel spreadsheet 08:14.840 --> 08:17.130 about this and have it do this, this, and this. 08:17.130 --> 08:20.690 And I was like, I don't ever remember getting trained 08:20.690 --> 08:22.370 on how to do Excel spreadsheets, 08:22.370 --> 08:24.330 like maybe they're doing it now in high school 08:24.330 --> 08:26.330 but when I went through, they existed, 08:26.330 --> 08:27.730 but we didn't ever use them. 08:28.110 --> 08:30.200 And it was just kind of like I got to a job one day 08:30.200 --> 08:32.097 and they expected me to know how to do all this 08:32.097 --> 08:34.930 and I was like what is happening, 08:34.930 --> 08:37.823 I don't know how to do any of what you're saying, 08:38.080 --> 08:40.650 and I think that applies to a lot of the other stuff, 08:40.650 --> 08:42.123 Powerpoints and just other, 08:42.387 --> 08:46.810 I think we need like, I don't want to say a course, 08:46.810 --> 08:50.130 but I mean like a little snippet in ALS or something 08:50.360 --> 08:52.400 like this is how you're gonna use this 'cause 08:52.400 --> 08:54.033 this is good for tracking. 08:54.390 --> 08:59.390 - Yeah I guess I, the problem with PME right is that 09:00.000 --> 09:02.120 we're typically confined to a timeline, 09:02.120 --> 09:04.250 versus confined to what we want to get out of it, 09:04.250 --> 09:05.850 we confine ourselves to a timeline 09:05.850 --> 09:08.350 and we try and cram everything into that timeline. 09:08.950 --> 09:10.380 And that's a problem that we would have with some 09:10.380 --> 09:11.330 of these functions. 09:11.360 --> 09:13.940 Like think Outlook, there is so many things you can do 09:13.940 --> 09:15.750 on Outlook that many of us are not reaching our 09:15.750 --> 09:17.470 potential on how we work through Outlook. 09:17.470 --> 09:19.300 And many of us we use that on the daily basis, 09:19.300 --> 09:21.230 but we don't have an Outlook class right. 09:21.230 --> 09:24.030 So I think there's definite benefit on what you're 09:24.030 --> 09:26.773 saying especially in Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, 09:27.040 --> 09:28.640 a lot of the Microsoft products. 09:29.440 --> 09:33.303 But what I would say is don't wait for the Air Force. 09:33.630 --> 09:36.570 Right so if we find a local expert that's good at it, 09:36.570 --> 09:40.160 then man have a course on it in your squadron 09:40.160 --> 09:42.400 or something like that, have it in your work center, 09:42.400 --> 09:44.230 I mean I've got a good friend of mine that's 09:44.230 --> 09:47.600 a wizard at Outlook, I've learned a few tips off of him, 09:47.600 --> 09:49.737 but I'd love to get him in to teach a class, 09:49.737 --> 09:52.920 you know what I mean and just give me a six hour block 09:52.920 --> 09:55.580 one day and I can teach people and you take something out. 09:55.580 --> 09:58.150 But a lot of times what we do is we wait for the Air Force, 09:58.150 --> 10:00.511 or try to wait for the Air Force, or blame the Air Force, 10:00.511 --> 10:03.010 that this hasn't happened, this hasn't happened, 10:03.010 --> 10:04.110 a lot of times, shoot, 10:04.148 --> 10:06.760 we can solve a lot of issues on our own. 10:06.760 --> 10:08.200 - YouTube university. 10:08.200 --> 10:09.033 - That's it. 10:09.033 --> 10:09.866 - That's what I ended up having to do, 10:09.866 --> 10:12.770 but it was a shock, I literally just one day I walked in. 10:12.770 --> 10:14.535 - What I'm saying is that once you learn something, 10:14.535 --> 10:17.530 versus making all your Airmen have to do the same 10:17.530 --> 10:19.690 that you as Staff Sergeant Reynolds goes 10:20.050 --> 10:22.090 and grabs them up and says hey guys, gals, 10:22.090 --> 10:24.540 let me show you what I learned, you know what I mean. 10:24.540 --> 10:27.523 That's what I'm saying is kinda you give back, that's all. 10:28.941 --> 10:30.120 - [SSgt Reynolds] I agree. 10:30.120 --> 10:31.340 - It's not a dumb idea, 10:31.340 --> 10:33.060 it's just I don't know how much time we can 10:33.060 --> 10:34.570 you know devote to everything. 10:34.570 --> 10:39.110 I think we do need to have more practical pieces 10:39.110 --> 10:41.500 to our professional military education versus 10:41.500 --> 10:43.836 all theoretical and big ideas. 10:43.836 --> 10:47.100 We need to put people in scenario based things 10:47.100 --> 10:50.730 and walk 'em through and have some discussion items 10:50.730 --> 10:54.890 on that and more practicality versus just philosophical 10:54.890 --> 10:57.594 discussion about hey what would you do in this situation. 10:57.594 --> 10:59.056 - 'Cause when I think back about it, 10:59.056 --> 11:01.810 that's all I can remember really is like, 11:01.810 --> 11:06.310 well we gotta see who's what kind of person 11:06.310 --> 11:09.310 and how do you adapt to these people, and like alright well. 11:09.630 --> 11:10.620 - That's funny you say that, 11:10.620 --> 11:14.640 you know I've done some of those tests, 11:14.640 --> 11:17.173 I couldn't tell you what kind of person, I haven't, 11:17.590 --> 11:19.820 people may say it's dumb right that I don't retain 11:19.820 --> 11:20.800 that information on it, 11:20.800 --> 11:24.123 but all I know is that people are different. 11:24.739 --> 11:25.572 (laughs) 11:25.572 --> 11:26.405 Right, I know that. 11:26.537 --> 11:28.191 - [SSgt Reynolds] That's all you need to know. 11:28.191 --> 11:29.070 - And I don't need to know if your color's blue 11:29.070 --> 11:30.793 or orange or whatever it is, 11:31.040 --> 11:33.083 I just need to know you right. 11:33.319 --> 11:36.183 And I can do that without those type of things. 11:36.280 --> 11:38.117 Some people like the bucket people 11:38.117 --> 11:41.020 and put them in these categories, just like generational, 11:41.020 --> 11:42.640 they're like the bucket millennials. 11:42.640 --> 11:44.593 You know all millennials are this way, 11:44.705 --> 11:47.400 I don't need to say millennials are that way, 11:47.400 --> 11:49.730 shoot they span a 20 plus you know we have 11:49.730 --> 11:51.130 Senior Master Sergeants in our Air Force 11:51.130 --> 11:52.180 that are millennials. 11:52.340 --> 11:54.453 And you know A1C's that are millennials. 11:54.519 --> 11:57.953 I just need to know people and not bucket 'em. 11:58.000 --> 12:00.750 If I bucket 'em what I end up doing is then I start 12:00.750 --> 12:03.507 treating people all alike and I miss the point 12:03.507 --> 12:06.700 on how to really lead people and know they're different 12:06.700 --> 12:08.740 and I have to do different things for different people. 12:08.740 --> 12:10.823 - There's just people. 12:11.364 --> 12:14.000 You can't talk to one person the same way you 12:14.000 --> 12:14.940 talk to another person. 12:14.940 --> 12:16.740 Very rarely does that ever work out. 12:16.790 --> 12:18.680 - Exactly, but to your point though, 12:18.680 --> 12:22.030 with the ALS stuff right is that we would like to put 12:22.030 --> 12:22.863 them in a bin right, 12:22.863 --> 12:24.667 we'd like to be able to put them in this orange bin 12:24.667 --> 12:27.440 and say that all these people are all the same right 12:27.440 --> 12:29.400 and this is how you need and this is what they're, 12:29.400 --> 12:30.250 well they're not. 12:30.620 --> 12:31.777 There's tinges of this in people 12:31.777 --> 12:33.449 and there's tinges of that in people 12:33.449 --> 12:35.249 and you just gotta know your people. 12:36.650 --> 12:41.357 - So leaping right out of EPME's and ALS, 12:41.681 --> 12:43.870 all these new Staff Sergeants are getting ready to 12:43.870 --> 12:48.870 go through, 51 and some change percent made it. 12:48.918 --> 12:53.918 Any words of wisdom from all your years of leadership 12:54.670 --> 12:55.740 for them coming up ? 12:55.740 --> 12:59.936 - All my years, you know much of what we just chatted about, 12:59.936 --> 13:00.840 you know what I mean, 13:00.840 --> 13:04.353 and what I would say to the new Staff Sergeants, 13:05.022 --> 13:07.850 51% promotion rate is awesome. 13:07.850 --> 13:09.810 People can say whatever they like to say about that, 13:09.810 --> 13:10.643 that's awesome. 13:10.643 --> 13:12.990 That means that we had a certain quantity of people 13:12.990 --> 13:14.190 that we needed promoted, 13:14.480 --> 13:16.480 we identified them through our promotion process 13:16.480 --> 13:18.180 and now they're gonna get to sew on the next stripe. 13:18.180 --> 13:22.270 It's gonna be I think roughly 15,600 and something 13:22.270 --> 13:25.023 that are gonna get to be Staff Sergeants, we need 'em. 13:25.235 --> 13:27.200 You know as we're growing our Air Force 13:27.200 --> 13:32.200 to roughly that 329,000 on the active duty side, 13:33.250 --> 13:34.890 we need Staff Sergeants. 13:34.890 --> 13:38.090 We need first line supervisors to take those three levels 13:38.090 --> 13:40.360 and train them and teach them how to be functionally 13:40.360 --> 13:42.140 competent and capable in their positions 13:42.140 --> 13:44.793 and ready to go and take the fight wherever it be, 13:44.793 --> 13:48.300 whether it's deployed in place to the enemy 13:48.300 --> 13:51.050 and we need them to lead their Airmen. 13:51.050 --> 13:52.320 We need them to care about their Airmen, 13:52.320 --> 13:54.320 we need them to understand their Airmen. 13:55.100 --> 13:57.190 - Regardless of what color block they fall into. 13:57.190 --> 13:58.680 - Regardless of what color block. 13:58.680 --> 14:01.643 But one thing you do need, you need to know yourself right. 14:01.780 --> 14:03.987 And you know yourself and you need to know your people. 14:03.987 --> 14:07.220 The other flip side of it is that's important that 14:07.220 --> 14:09.520 we need these Staff Sergeants to out and lead, 14:11.860 --> 14:13.470 but they need help too right. 14:13.470 --> 14:14.530 They need training too. 14:14.530 --> 14:16.140 They need Tech Sergeants, Master Sergeants, 14:16.140 --> 14:17.990 Senior Master Sergeants, Chief Master Sergeants 14:18.195 --> 14:20.350 to take them by the hand and lead them 14:20.350 --> 14:23.823 and teach them what it means to be a good supervisor. 14:23.930 --> 14:25.140 Much of it you learn right, 14:25.140 --> 14:27.150 you learn it either through your PME, 14:27.150 --> 14:29.440 you learn it through examples, 14:29.440 --> 14:31.965 you've had a supervisor that you've liked or didn't like 14:31.965 --> 14:33.720 and you pick these things up. 14:33.720 --> 14:37.360 But yeah I tell you it goes back to what I said 14:37.360 --> 14:40.350 a minute ago, there's so many things that we can fix 14:40.350 --> 14:42.100 in our Air Force that we don't need to wait on 14:42.100 --> 14:43.563 our Air Force to fix for us. 14:43.840 --> 14:46.280 And those Staff Sergeants, you Staff Sergeant, 14:46.280 --> 14:49.420 are probably one of the most critical pieces 14:49.420 --> 14:52.060 in that whole puzzle on how we get after all the things 14:52.060 --> 14:53.110 we need to get after. 14:55.211 --> 14:56.611 - Those are inspiring words. 14:56.650 --> 15:01.650 I'm gonna go and go lead my one Airman very strongly now. 15:02.698 --> 15:05.990 - But I'll go a little bit further right, 15:05.990 --> 15:10.260 so resilience right, I just was visiting Fort Mead, 15:10.260 --> 15:12.010 you've been to Fort Mead I believe, 15:12.050 --> 15:13.444 your school is up there. 15:13.444 --> 15:14.277 - [SSgt Reynolds] Just got back. 15:14.277 --> 15:16.870 - So I was up at Fort Mead and I got a chance to recognize 15:16.870 --> 15:18.820 a couple Airmen, that's typical on a visit, 15:18.820 --> 15:22.070 I get information that I get first off is just 15:22.070 --> 15:23.990 to understand the scenarios, 15:23.990 --> 15:26.080 some is to take back and have our staff work, 15:26.080 --> 15:28.590 some of it's to work with the headquarters Air Force, 15:28.590 --> 15:30.330 and then I get a chance to just thank Airmen 15:30.330 --> 15:31.990 and recognize them for their outstanding performance. 15:31.990 --> 15:34.050 And two of the Airmen that I got to recognize, 15:34.050 --> 15:37.060 they were young NCOs, their supervisors were telling me 15:37.080 --> 15:38.234 about their accomplishments. 15:38.234 --> 15:43.234 And it was inspiring to see a supervisor know, 15:44.620 --> 15:46.554 and it wasn't reading off a paper, 15:46.554 --> 15:48.730 they knew what this Airmen did 15:48.730 --> 15:50.480 and how much of an impact they had. 15:50.720 --> 15:51.810 And I asked the Airmen I said, 15:51.810 --> 15:53.360 hey how did that make you feel? 15:53.940 --> 15:55.250 And it made them feel proud, 15:55.250 --> 15:57.620 one of them I thought we were all gonna get teared up 15:57.620 --> 16:00.100 there for a minute because I mean they hadn't heard 16:00.100 --> 16:02.403 somebody talk about them in that way, 16:02.550 --> 16:03.564 with that much passion, 16:03.564 --> 16:06.790 and that's how you make people feel that they're wanted 16:06.790 --> 16:08.180 and they're part of an organization that they 16:08.180 --> 16:11.380 want to be a part of is by caring about them 16:11.380 --> 16:13.237 and doing everything you can to help make them better. 16:13.237 --> 16:16.860 And when you have that and you have increased resilience, 16:16.860 --> 16:18.930 you know what I mean and the fact they're able to bounce 16:18.930 --> 16:20.770 back after things because they know you're gonna look 16:20.770 --> 16:23.410 out for them, they have somebody they can go talk to 16:23.410 --> 16:25.869 'cause they know that you're willing to listen to them. 16:25.869 --> 16:30.869 Anyway, the job of a supervisor, especially at that level, 16:30.938 --> 16:34.963 man it's the best job in the world. 16:35.103 --> 16:37.270 It really is, it's the best job in the world, 16:37.270 --> 16:38.730 to be able to have that kind of impact 16:38.730 --> 16:39.963 on somebody else's life. 16:40.559 --> 16:42.700 - When that is your primary focus, 16:42.700 --> 16:45.260 when you can just push everything like yeah I know 16:45.260 --> 16:47.813 how to do all that now, I'm gonna help you, 16:47.890 --> 16:50.308 because was when I was in your position, 16:50.308 --> 16:52.420 either somebody helped me or they didn't 16:52.420 --> 16:56.020 and I want to make sure that I can do or not do that for you 16:56.650 --> 17:01.287 and yeah I think it is definitely one of the most 17:01.287 --> 17:03.083 rewarding things you can do. 17:03.170 --> 17:07.630 - Well it's in a way, and people can comment on this or not, 17:07.630 --> 17:11.683 but it's kind of like children right, having children. 17:11.880 --> 17:13.500 - [SSgt Reynolds] Government issued children. 17:13.500 --> 17:14.500 - Well I wouldn't say that. 17:14.500 --> 17:15.530 - [SSgt Reynolds] I've been referred to as 17:15.530 --> 17:17.287 a government issued child before. 17:17.344 --> 17:18.383 - I wouldn't say that, but saying I have two daughters, 17:18.910 --> 17:20.470 I have a 24 year old and an 18 year old daughter. 17:20.470 --> 17:23.220 And the goal of being a parent right is first off 17:23.220 --> 17:24.770 you love your children, you care about them, 17:24.770 --> 17:26.880 you want to do everything you can to make them, 17:26.880 --> 17:27.957 or to help them be successful, 17:27.957 --> 17:29.414 not to make them be successful. 17:29.414 --> 17:32.388 And you want to give them things that maybe you 17:32.388 --> 17:33.960 weren't afforded right, 17:33.960 --> 17:36.030 you want to make them just a little bit better, 17:36.030 --> 17:37.903 and that's what the world is about right, 17:37.903 --> 17:39.153 just a little bit better. 17:39.330 --> 17:41.860 And that's what you get with an Airman right, 17:41.860 --> 17:44.170 you get this Airman that comes behind you that 17:44.170 --> 17:46.760 you get to try and make just a little bit better than you, 17:46.760 --> 17:50.270 you get to do just a few things to make them more successful 17:50.270 --> 17:52.020 or make them and it's not a competition, 17:52.020 --> 17:54.950 it just a hey someday I want you to be, 17:54.950 --> 17:57.310 whatever you want to be I want to help you get to that 17:57.310 --> 18:01.833 point in life, in all aspects. 18:02.562 --> 18:07.310 - You think that we'll ever bring back the at least 18:07.310 --> 18:09.640 time in service, time in rank, time in service, 18:09.640 --> 18:12.300 'cause when they complete, 18:12.300 --> 18:16.320 when they took down how many points you got 18:16.320 --> 18:18.100 I was like yeah that 100% makes sense, 18:18.100 --> 18:20.450 there's a lot of people that are just coasting. 18:20.900 --> 18:22.470 But when they completely got rid of it, 18:22.470 --> 18:25.900 the very next time I noticed a lot of people made it 18:25.900 --> 18:28.763 that just in my little unit that I was like, 18:28.810 --> 18:30.863 you're probably like, you're brand new. 18:31.136 --> 18:33.030 'Cause I feel like to be a good supervisor you have 18:33.030 --> 18:36.480 to have some experience and if you don't have any experience 18:36.480 --> 18:40.193 I don't know how you're gonna lead 'cause you don't know. 18:40.610 --> 18:43.340 I mean it happens, there are natural born leaders 18:43.490 --> 18:46.060 that can just get thrown into any situation and handle it 18:46.060 --> 18:48.469 but a lot of it comes from I've been here before, 18:48.469 --> 18:50.233 I know what to do. 18:50.470 --> 18:52.540 And we have a lot of people that have not been here 18:52.540 --> 18:53.900 before and they don't know what to do 18:53.900 --> 18:56.803 and now they're in charge of other people. 18:56.950 --> 18:58.970 - That's a good question and we get it a lot. 18:58.970 --> 19:02.973 I might run a couple minutes long on this one. 19:03.010 --> 19:03.923 - [SSgt Reynolds] That's fine. 19:04.350 --> 19:06.380 - I don't think the way we did it before was bad, 19:06.380 --> 19:08.950 I don't think for the most part we didn't have people 19:08.950 --> 19:11.900 that were getting promoted that we shouldn't have promoted. 19:12.383 --> 19:14.450 There were some that were the benefit of the doubt, 19:14.450 --> 19:15.790 that if they stayed in long enough, 19:15.790 --> 19:18.243 they get enough points and they ended up getting promoted. 19:18.920 --> 19:21.360 To our more senior ranks that doesn't happen in this time 19:21.360 --> 19:22.930 just based upon the board process, 19:22.930 --> 19:24.430 so we're able to look at that. 19:25.090 --> 19:26.970 As far as time in grade and bringing it back, 19:26.970 --> 19:31.100 so just it's an interesting discussion 'cause if you look 19:31.100 --> 19:32.694 at our promotion process now, 19:32.694 --> 19:37.003 if the three, there's another person here, 19:37.160 --> 19:39.910 if the three of us were all promoted to Staff Sergeant, 19:40.025 --> 19:41.653 and you had a must promote, 19:41.686 --> 19:43.893 and I have a promote, and you have a promote, 19:44.080 --> 19:47.100 which by the way, about 58 almost 60% of those 19:47.100 --> 19:49.563 promoted to Staff Sergeant this year had promotes, 19:50.100 --> 19:52.400 but I test pretty good but not great. 19:52.400 --> 19:54.453 I test probably in the mid 50's, 19:54.752 --> 19:56.340 you know what I mean I study my butt off, 19:56.340 --> 19:58.550 about mid 50's, maybe low 60's. 19:58.550 --> 20:00.700 Maybe it's my upbringing, maybe I just never was good 20:00.700 --> 20:04.550 at comprehending, maybe I'm just not applying myself right. 20:04.550 --> 20:06.303 You test about the same as I do. 20:06.330 --> 20:09.150 And my counterpart over here they're phenomenal, 20:09.150 --> 20:11.330 they go in there and they have that book smart to them, 20:11.330 --> 20:12.893 they can 85 every time. 20:13.222 --> 20:16.910 So you get promoted 'cause you had a few points above me 20:16.910 --> 20:18.120 based on your must promote. 20:18.120 --> 20:20.340 She got promoted 'cause she tested better than me, 20:20.340 --> 20:22.760 I didn't get promoted and then we go to next year 20:24.460 --> 20:25.580 and I'm in the same position. 20:25.580 --> 20:27.610 There's another must promote I'm testing against, 20:27.610 --> 20:29.880 probably somebody else now that tests better than me, 20:29.880 --> 20:32.530 and I never have an opportunity to make up those points. 20:32.530 --> 20:36.390 So unless I go and find a better way to test 20:36.390 --> 20:37.538 or a better way to study. 20:37.538 --> 20:41.326 So it does put us in a different way as far as promotion, 20:41.326 --> 20:44.563 and then go to the time, so that's the last piece, 20:44.810 --> 20:46.260 you said time and experience. 20:46.435 --> 20:49.910 There's no doubt that some people experience 20:49.910 --> 20:52.760 is what they need to get to be a better leader, 20:52.760 --> 20:54.750 better supervisor, better at whatever they do. 20:54.750 --> 20:56.383 Some people don't need the time, 20:56.580 --> 20:58.470 some people just have a knack for things, 20:58.470 --> 21:00.280 some people maybe in their previous life 21:00.280 --> 21:02.193 before they came in the Air Force already. 21:02.300 --> 21:04.810 So our Air Force has established minimum criteria 21:04.810 --> 21:05.853 to make rank right? 21:05.940 --> 21:08.570 There's minimum criteria, time in grade, time in service, 21:08.570 --> 21:09.410 that's a minimum. 21:09.410 --> 21:11.800 We as an Air Force have said that hey you're allowed 21:11.800 --> 21:14.300 to be a Staff Sergeant at this point in your life. 21:14.550 --> 21:15.670 You're allowed to be a Tech Sergeant 21:15.670 --> 21:16.990 at this point in your life. 21:16.990 --> 21:18.680 We've established those minimum criteria. 21:18.680 --> 21:22.996 So the answer for to the Air Force wouldn't be to 21:22.996 --> 21:25.960 bring time in grade, time in service to get after that, 21:25.960 --> 21:29.070 if we felt that you shouldn't supervise until 21:29.070 --> 21:30.980 you're a five year Staff Sergeant, 21:30.980 --> 21:33.930 then change the time in grade requirement. 21:33.930 --> 21:35.200 You know what I mean? 21:35.200 --> 21:36.750 Which I don't think we need to do, 21:36.750 --> 21:38.140 I think that we did it right. 21:38.140 --> 21:40.740 And I said it was the last thing, 21:40.740 --> 21:42.280 but the last thing I'll leave you with. 21:42.280 --> 21:45.330 So I don't know that I've gone into any position 21:45.330 --> 21:46.900 that I've ever had in the Air Force 21:46.900 --> 21:50.173 and I felt 100% confident that I was ready to do that job. 21:51.010 --> 21:52.780 You know I don't care if it was the first time they 21:52.780 --> 21:54.867 gave me an Airman and I'm an NCO, 21:55.310 --> 21:57.010 first time I was running a shift, 21:57.010 --> 21:59.450 first time I was a section chief, a flight chief, 21:59.450 --> 22:01.763 command chief, MAJCOM command chief, 22:01.900 --> 22:03.983 that I walked into that job and said man. 22:04.706 --> 22:05.539 - I got this. 22:05.539 --> 22:07.250 - I got this, I always walked into it like, 22:07.250 --> 22:08.700 man I'm gonna need some help. 22:09.200 --> 22:11.150 And then I'd reach out to a peer I knew 22:11.150 --> 22:13.470 and say hey what did you do when you did this 22:13.470 --> 22:15.420 and I had enough supervisors that would put their 22:15.420 --> 22:17.330 arm around me and say hey here's some things 22:17.330 --> 22:18.530 you should look out for. 22:19.040 --> 22:22.130 That's where if you promote somebody that you feel 22:22.130 --> 22:23.810 maybe was a little bit too soon, 22:23.810 --> 22:25.360 or maybe they needed some more experience, 22:25.360 --> 22:29.900 that's where the rest of the Air Force's opportunity 22:29.900 --> 22:31.783 to help them out and develop them. 22:32.150 --> 22:35.600 But I haven't that we're talking about time in grade, 22:35.600 --> 22:36.970 time in service points at this point, 22:36.970 --> 22:38.750 but I do know that we're looking at our promotion 22:38.750 --> 22:42.030 system as a whole and seeing if we have it right 22:42.030 --> 22:45.490 on how we're identifying the people to obtain the next level 22:46.090 --> 22:47.990 - I think that's one of those things where no matter 22:47.990 --> 22:49.500 how many times we tweak it, 22:49.500 --> 22:51.430 there's always gonna be somebody that's gonna be like, 22:51.430 --> 22:53.396 well it was better when we did this. 22:53.396 --> 22:55.977 Like the way we did it before was fine, 22:55.977 --> 22:59.233 the way we do it now, it's kind of like the EPRs, 22:59.320 --> 23:02.020 I feel like yeah there's ways to do it then 23:02.020 --> 23:03.410 that I was like okay I like that better 23:03.410 --> 23:04.430 and then this one I'm like alright, 23:04.430 --> 23:05.780 this one's a little better. 23:06.080 --> 23:08.530 It's just you know, there's pros and cons on everything 23:08.530 --> 23:10.236 and you just gotta pick your poison almost. 23:10.236 --> 23:11.930 - I'm a firm believer that we have a, 23:11.930 --> 23:13.819 now of course I was promoted in this system, 23:13.819 --> 23:15.760 that we have a good system. 23:15.760 --> 23:17.023 It's fair and equitable, 23:17.304 --> 23:22.160 I wouldn't say that we get it right 100% of the time, 23:22.160 --> 23:23.920 'cause there's people that we've missed in promotion 23:23.920 --> 23:27.010 cycles based upon AFSCs and things, 23:27.010 --> 23:29.771 just mistakes that our system makes that we then get right. 23:29.771 --> 23:32.370 'Cause that's where I go back to where it's 100% 23:32.370 --> 23:34.100 is we always have supplemental looks, 23:34.100 --> 23:35.394 we always have a way to go back 23:35.394 --> 23:38.303 and get things right if we miss something. 23:42.944 --> 23:45.410 I'd have to go back to Chief Gaylor, 23:45.410 --> 23:47.653 you know previous Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, 23:47.977 --> 23:48.810 we were down at the Air Force Sergeants 23:48.810 --> 23:50.070 Association Conference this year, 23:50.070 --> 23:51.720 Professional Airmen's Conference. 23:51.960 --> 23:55.850 He said yeah, you know the best promotion system right, 23:55.850 --> 23:58.410 the only promotion system I think works, the best one, 23:58.410 --> 23:59.863 is the one that promotes me. 24:00.176 --> 24:01.009 (laughs) 24:01.009 --> 24:03.040 If I don't get promoted in the promotion system 24:03.040 --> 24:04.820 then there's a fault to the promotion system. 24:04.820 --> 24:07.650 There's not, very few people are willing to say 24:07.650 --> 24:08.943 it's a fault to them. 24:09.060 --> 24:11.480 They're very easy to say it's a fault with something else. 24:11.480 --> 24:14.824 I've had a Master Sergeant one time come to me, 24:14.824 --> 24:18.140 missed making Senior Master Sergeant by let's say 24:18.140 --> 24:20.123 five and a half points. 24:20.720 --> 24:23.127 And their instinct was to come right to me 24:23.127 --> 24:25.780 and say hey Chief I don't understand my board score, 24:25.780 --> 24:28.803 look at my records and I only got a 360 board score. 24:28.982 --> 24:30.377 Yeah it was at 360. 24:30.983 --> 24:34.453 Which is a good board score by the way, it's above average. 24:34.806 --> 24:37.397 And I said yeah, but your records this and that. 24:37.397 --> 24:39.593 And I said, what'd you score on your test? 24:40.090 --> 24:42.023 And he scored like a 52, 24:42.210 --> 24:44.560 so I said so if your scored a 58 on your test 24:44.560 --> 24:46.555 you could've made Senior Master Sergeant. 24:46.555 --> 24:47.388 (laughs) 24:47.388 --> 24:49.670 Well yeah, but it's the board's fault, it's not my fault. 24:49.670 --> 24:51.840 You know what I mean so that's the thing with promotion 24:51.840 --> 24:56.446 is it's never gonna be 100% for everybody because 24:56.446 --> 24:59.204 if they don't get promoted they're gonna feel slighted. 24:59.204 --> 25:02.590 EPRs were the same way, when we all said it was inflated 25:02.660 --> 25:04.020 and everybody got fives. 25:04.020 --> 25:06.240 There wasn't a single person that had a five 25:06.240 --> 25:08.560 that was gonna raise their hand and say you know what 25:08.600 --> 25:10.000 I shouldn't have got a five. 25:10.060 --> 25:11.033 - [SSgt Reynolds] Yeah. 25:11.070 --> 25:13.930 - They're looking at you and saying you shouldn't have 25:13.930 --> 25:15.360 got the five, I should've got it. 25:15.360 --> 25:16.960 - [SSgt Reynolds] I have a whole story about that, 25:16.960 --> 25:18.619 I'll save that for offline. 25:18.619 --> 25:21.480 - Same with our promotes now, must promotes, 25:21.480 --> 25:25.420 and promotes right, is that there's a feel that, 25:25.420 --> 25:27.650 hey if I don't get it then it must not be me, 25:27.650 --> 25:31.303 it must be the system and I will tell you on that 25:31.303 --> 25:34.800 is that some of it is just the sheer numbers 'cause 25:34.800 --> 25:36.190 we're limited on quotas. 25:36.190 --> 25:38.640 You know so I got a chance to be on an enlisted force 25:38.640 --> 25:42.319 distribution panel, so I'm the Command Chief, 25:42.319 --> 25:44.210 I'm an advisor, I don't score them. 25:44.210 --> 25:47.580 So there's seven squadrons that bring their number one 25:47.580 --> 25:49.610 Tech Sergeant, two of them brought their number one 25:49.610 --> 25:52.110 and number two Tech Sergeant to the table for this 25:52.430 --> 25:54.502 and then the senior raters at the end of the table, 25:54.502 --> 25:57.410 out of them we had three quota. 25:57.410 --> 25:59.330 We had one promote now and two must promotes. 25:59.330 --> 26:03.770 There's four units that leave that process that their 26:03.770 --> 26:06.963 number one Tech Sergeant received a promote. 26:07.490 --> 26:11.720 That's why you go to a promotion release like we just did 26:11.720 --> 26:13.670 and 58% of them were promotes. 26:13.670 --> 26:17.390 'Cause those top performing NCOs and Airmen are still 26:17.390 --> 26:19.040 gonna find a way to get promoted. 26:19.060 --> 26:22.223 They're gonna find a way to get above that line. 26:23.610 --> 26:24.443 Anyway. 26:25.018 --> 26:27.037 - Yeah, I think yeah, we hammered all those nails. 26:27.037 --> 26:30.340 Anything else you want to add for the new Staff Sergeants 26:30.340 --> 26:34.313 or anything at all going on in our Air Force? 26:34.760 --> 26:36.873 - Well there's a lot going on in our Air Force, 26:36.956 --> 26:39.600 the only thing I would add it would go all the way back 26:39.600 --> 26:40.980 to what we were chatting about earlier, 26:40.980 --> 26:45.980 is that new leaders in our Air Force have to understand 26:46.230 --> 26:48.800 that 100%, that we have their back. 26:48.800 --> 26:50.890 100% when the Chief of Staff, General Goldfein, 26:50.890 --> 26:53.433 with Chief Wright, with General Holmes, COMACC, 26:53.557 --> 26:56.133 and I are sitting here saying we have your back. 26:56.610 --> 26:58.349 You know go out and do what you need to do 26:58.349 --> 27:01.093 and identify issues where we can, 27:01.190 --> 27:03.517 we're gonna support you to the best of our ability. 27:03.517 --> 27:06.890 But don't wait, you know what I mean. 27:06.890 --> 27:08.770 Don't wait to be that bold leader, 27:08.770 --> 27:11.090 don't wait to teach your Airmen how to use Excel, 27:11.090 --> 27:13.533 don't wait to, go out and do it. 27:13.880 --> 27:15.970 You be the best dang supervisor you can 27:15.970 --> 27:17.760 and have the best Airmen that work for you 27:17.760 --> 27:20.680 and do not worry about what the rest of the Air Force 27:20.680 --> 27:23.833 is getting after you know what I mean. 27:23.848 --> 27:26.100 And just keep being good at what you do 27:26.100 --> 27:29.393 and keep being a great leader and we'll catch up. 27:29.810 --> 27:33.310 - Alright well again, thank you very much for 27:33.310 --> 27:34.403 joining us again. 27:35.260 --> 27:37.860 I have yet to come up with more dumb questions, 27:37.860 --> 27:39.453 so I think you're safe today. 27:40.150 --> 27:42.110 - That one you got me with last time with the chicken, 27:42.110 --> 27:44.319 or the duck, or the horse or something like that. 27:44.319 --> 27:45.430 - Yeah, the duck or the horse. 27:45.430 --> 27:48.903 Unless, if your life was gonna be a sitcom, 27:53.290 --> 27:54.490 what would it be called? 27:54.830 --> 27:58.193 That's the newest one I got, Miss Worley gave me that one. 27:58.760 --> 28:01.183 - Man, what would it be called. 28:04.540 --> 28:06.730 I think I'd just use like a pun to it, 28:06.730 --> 28:08.343 it'd be Let's Be Frank. 28:08.949 --> 28:11.032 (laughs) 28:11.096 --> 28:12.562 I mean my name is Frank right? 28:12.562 --> 28:13.562 - Yeah yeah. 28:13.611 --> 28:14.444 - So Let's Be Frank. 28:14.607 --> 28:15.526 - Let's Be Frank. 28:15.526 --> 28:16.381 - Yay, there we go. 28:16.381 --> 28:17.710 We can start writing the monologues 28:17.710 --> 28:18.740 and dialogues for it now. 28:18.740 --> 28:20.150 - Okay, I think it's a great idea, 28:20.150 --> 28:21.770 we'll get the theme song going too. 28:21.770 --> 28:24.160 - I need to find something to do here in about 8 months. 28:24.160 --> 28:24.993 - Oh yeah. 28:25.017 --> 28:25.850 - So that might be a way to go. 28:25.850 --> 28:28.940 - There you go, just pitch your show to all 28:28.940 --> 28:30.520 the major networks, they need stuff. 28:30.520 --> 28:31.353 - Too easy. 28:31.353 --> 28:32.340 - Alright well thank you sir. 28:32.340 --> 28:33.840 - Thanks man, I appreciate it. 28:36.350 --> 28:38.840 - As always, good words of wisdom from the chief. 28:38.840 --> 28:39.673 - Yes. 28:39.936 --> 28:41.623 - I love talking to Chiefs. 28:41.980 --> 28:46.930 They always have that real, helpful insight. 28:47.750 --> 28:50.553 But it's like in a way that like I understand. 28:50.590 --> 28:51.423 - Right. 28:51.544 --> 28:52.377 (laughs) 28:52.377 --> 28:54.863 It's like oh okay, that's what so and so meant. 28:55.490 --> 28:56.893 - Chief put me in my place. 29:00.810 --> 29:05.527 Very special episode and we're so glad that you took 29:05.690 --> 29:07.290 time out of your off week, 29:07.290 --> 29:08.630 I know that you guys take that time 29:08.630 --> 29:13.296 and you relax and just hang out waiting for another episode. 29:13.296 --> 29:14.660 - Everybody enjoys their bi-weeks. 29:14.660 --> 29:15.853 - Yeah, their bi-weeks. 29:16.330 --> 29:17.433 Their bi-focal weeks. 29:17.568 --> 29:18.401 (laughs) 29:18.401 --> 29:21.970 So we didn't have any news this week, I'm sorry, 29:21.970 --> 29:24.170 we just wanted to hurry up and get this information out 29:24.170 --> 29:27.510 to you guys and I hope you enjoyed the interview 29:28.190 --> 29:30.850 and again everybody down there in Florida and Georgia 29:30.850 --> 29:35.850 and I guess it's still a hurricane coming on land. 29:36.650 --> 29:41.650 Stay safe and keep reflecting in the inclement weather. 29:43.015 --> 29:44.365 - I see what you did there. 29:45.760 --> 29:46.593 I like it. 29:46.650 --> 29:48.723 - [SSgt Reynolds] Let me see your reflective belt. 29:49.140 --> 29:52.913 - Fun fact, I did not wear my reflective belt last week so. 29:53.150 --> 29:54.753 - [SSgt Reynolds] Did anybody say anything? 29:55.540 --> 29:56.373 - No. 29:58.010 --> 29:59.190 - Shame on you too. 30:00.090 --> 30:01.937 (laughs) 30:01.937 --> 30:04.520 (upbeat music)