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- I'm Senior Master Sergeant Jason Logan.

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I am the USAFE-AFAFRICA
International Listed

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Engagement Manager,

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and I work building strategic
senior enlisted leader

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relations between US and
our partners nations'

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senior enlisted leaders,
assisting our partners

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with enlisted professional development.

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My role here is to assist
our African partners

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with strengthening their enlisted core,

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professional development and empowerment.

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Yeah, so, I serve as the

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International Listed Engagement
Manager for USAFE-AFAFRICA,

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and in that role, I work
with our partner nation's

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senior enlisted leaders to help them

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with their force development initiatives

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for their enlisted Corp.

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It's important because they
have a lot of on tap potential

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within their forces that
is not being developed

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and utilized to how we do in the US,

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so they have this force that
isn't allowed to kind of lead

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and make decisions for themselves,

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that could free up their officer Corp

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to focus on the strategic
mission of their air force.

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Last year at the African
Air Chiefs Symposium,

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the air chiefs voted on
having a formal participation

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from the senior enlisted
leaders from their nation,

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so that was a big step
because prior to that,

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a lot of the partner nations
didn't really understand

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the role of this individual,

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and how they could be utilized,

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so the air chiefs coming together,

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realizing the importance of having

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that senior enlisted
leader that can convey

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their strategic goals
to the enlisted force,

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and also convey the
issues that some of the

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junior enlisted are having
to that senior level

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really was important.

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So, in the working group,

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we propose a few courses of action

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for the LNO's to vote on.

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Ask what the senior enlisted leaders

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are going to discuss at this year's

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African Air Chiefs Symposium.

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So, they determine that the formal roles

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and responsibilities of
the senior enlisted leader

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needs to be universally accepted

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across all the African air forces,

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so everyone has a common understanding

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of what that person is there to do,

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and then from that, they're
also gonna work to create

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a framework for nations that
do not have this position

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on how they can implement
it within their core.