WEBVTT 00:01.000 --> 00:02.130 - Sitting around talking about 00:02.130 --> 00:04.663 suicide sounds like a great idea. 00:05.672 --> 00:09.089 (sustained musical note) 00:11.440 --> 00:13.430 - Well, things are about to get intense, right? 00:13.430 --> 00:15.300 Because we're gonna get into an uncomfortable subject, 00:15.300 --> 00:17.070 we're gonna talk about those things. 00:17.070 --> 00:18.980 And it's almost forcing the conversation when 00:18.980 --> 00:20.710 you sit down in those small groups, 00:20.710 --> 00:23.120 and there may be some scabs that are ripped off. 00:23.120 --> 00:25.140 - I've heard of it, but what is 00:25.140 --> 00:27.640 the Resiliency Tactical Pause? 00:27.640 --> 00:30.650 - This is not just a top-down directive campaign. 00:30.650 --> 00:33.330 This is about us, and that's all of us. 00:33.330 --> 00:36.310 It's not leadership, it's not me as the wing 00:36.310 --> 00:38.030 commander or the command chief, 00:38.030 --> 00:40.500 trying to figure out how to solve the problem. 00:40.500 --> 00:43.940 This is us, the Airmen and the family at Moody. 00:43.940 --> 00:45.980 This is for us to figure this out. 00:45.980 --> 00:47.510 - I mean a down day would be nice, 00:47.510 --> 00:49.850 but I don't have time for this. 00:49.850 --> 00:51.900 - We have Airmen out there who can't afford to 00:51.900 --> 00:53.820 take the down day because they have to secure the 00:53.820 --> 00:56.840 gates, or they have to do something at medical group. 00:56.840 --> 00:58.980 They have to do things and take care of our customers. 00:58.980 --> 01:01.440 What does that look like to them that we call it a down day? 01:01.440 --> 01:04.950 So executing this at the squadron level 01:04.950 --> 01:06.590 and being able to get that information out to 01:06.590 --> 01:09.030 build those test points, and drive home 01:09.030 --> 01:11.910 what it means to take this pause, 01:11.910 --> 01:13.742 what it means to connect with each other, 01:13.742 --> 01:16.410 and people having conversations is what it's about. 01:16.410 --> 01:17.760 And it's not a one time event, 01:17.760 --> 01:20.271 this should be something systemic and infectious 01:20.271 --> 01:23.240 for every Airman for the rest of their career. 01:23.240 --> 01:24.260 - What's the point? 01:24.260 --> 01:25.230 - What's the point? 01:25.230 --> 01:26.210 - What's the point? 01:26.210 --> 01:27.410 - We have to understand each other, 01:27.410 --> 01:30.180 we have to engage in these hard conversations 01:30.180 --> 01:32.950 and we have to figure out a way to actually make change. 01:32.950 --> 01:36.240 So this cannot be just an anti-suicide campaign, 01:36.240 --> 01:39.060 this cannot be just a resiliency campaign, 01:39.060 --> 01:42.630 this has to be us re-examining fundamentally 01:42.630 --> 01:47.049 how we interact with each other on a daily basis. 01:47.049 --> 01:49.253 - Does leadership actually care about us? 01:50.120 --> 01:53.080 - Even now talking about it I can feel the weight. 01:53.080 --> 01:54.410 There's things that happen, the things 01:54.410 --> 01:56.310 that you see that you can't take away. 01:57.290 --> 02:00.230 As you get up in rank you can become more 02:00.230 --> 02:02.533 attached, even though you're further away. 02:03.590 --> 02:06.140 Every time you hear about it, it feels like 02:06.140 --> 02:08.990 one of your own because this is a family. 02:08.990 --> 02:11.000 Regardless if it's across an installation, 02:11.000 --> 02:12.100 if it's in your career field, 02:12.100 --> 02:16.305 if it happens on your base, you carry it. 02:16.305 --> 02:17.760 And you try to go on about your day to day 02:17.760 --> 02:19.400 but you got those circumstances and those 02:19.400 --> 02:21.640 times, sitting in your office, walking to your 02:21.640 --> 02:24.660 car, where you just go, what's going on. 02:24.660 --> 02:27.040 And how do you fix it? - So how do we get there? 02:27.040 --> 02:28.130 - How do we get there? 02:28.130 --> 02:29.235 - How do we get there? 02:29.235 --> 02:33.691 - I think it starts with honest conversation and feedback. 02:33.691 --> 02:36.330 We need to understand the problem better. 02:36.330 --> 02:38.360 We have to care about each other, 02:38.360 --> 02:40.050 and that has to be a genuine care, 02:40.050 --> 02:42.280 not because it's a campaign slogan or 02:42.280 --> 02:44.580 because it's what we're talking about this week. 02:44.580 --> 02:47.510 This has to be, we have to fundamentally 02:47.510 --> 02:51.540 re-evaluate the way we go about our daily business, 02:51.540 --> 02:55.640 And be engaged with each other in all different manners. 02:55.640 --> 02:56.886 - When are they gonna ask us? 02:56.886 --> 02:57.719 - Us? 02:57.719 --> 02:58.552 - Us? 02:58.552 --> 02:59.385 - Us? 02:59.385 --> 03:00.470 - We want to hear, that's honest. 03:00.470 --> 03:02.540 I think from the chief of staff and 03:02.540 --> 03:04.220 the chief master sergeant down, 03:04.220 --> 03:08.650 it is an honest attempt, it is meaningful. 03:08.650 --> 03:10.800 We want to know what the problem is 03:10.800 --> 03:14.169 and get ideas on ways we can get better. 03:14.169 --> 03:16.820 We have a very challenging mission in the 03:16.820 --> 03:18.743 military these days, in the Air Force, 03:20.053 --> 03:22.010 but this is part of that. 03:22.010 --> 03:25.057 This is part of accomplishing the mission, 03:25.057 --> 03:26.900 and we have to understand it. 03:26.900 --> 03:29.660 So I think whether it's talking to your 03:29.660 --> 03:32.690 supervisor, engaging in these conversations, 03:32.690 --> 03:34.840 or just talking to the Airman next to you. 03:34.840 --> 03:37.980 Start that conversation, have those conversations, 03:37.980 --> 03:41.400 and then if you do have ideas that may help, 03:41.400 --> 03:44.226 then let your supervisor know, 03:44.226 --> 03:46.080 let all of us know. 03:46.080 --> 03:49.450 Email me or the chief, or Colonel Conde. 03:49.450 --> 03:52.837 - This is generated by Airmen for Airmen. 03:54.010 --> 03:55.360 That's how we get after it. 03:55.360 --> 03:59.520 No more putting up a Power Point or having 03:59.520 --> 04:01.780 an off-handed CBT you have to do, 04:01.780 --> 04:03.940 there's nothing too big, nothing too small 04:03.940 --> 04:07.000 to bring to the table to go, hey this is what bothers me, 04:07.000 --> 04:09.410 so that we can figure out how to get after it. 04:09.410 --> 04:12.010 - What if this happened to somebody in their family? 04:13.273 --> 04:15.958 - Because you miss your wife, what would I say? 04:15.958 --> 04:18.680 Because I can't imagine that at all. 04:18.680 --> 04:23.380 Like if she came to me I would stop the world 04:23.380 --> 04:27.348 from moving to make sure, oh my goodness! 04:27.348 --> 04:29.921 That my wife is taken care of. 04:29.921 --> 04:31.421 Okay I'll be back. 04:33.490 --> 04:35.652 Oh, Captain Holden we found your wife. 04:35.652 --> 04:36.485 Ugh! 04:39.116 --> 04:39.949 Man. 04:46.805 --> 04:48.100 Fuck. 04:48.100 --> 04:48.933 Oh. 04:58.672 --> 05:03.373 Okay we're going to stop talking about my wife like that. 05:03.373 --> 05:04.516 Okay, 05:04.516 --> 05:05.610 yeah. 05:05.610 --> 05:08.740 I couldn't ... I would do anything 05:11.171 --> 05:13.743 for my immediate family, for my wife. 05:15.400 --> 05:17.500 I would do anything for my Airmen as well. 05:21.470 --> 05:24.427 It's family, so it's important.