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- An ALS instructor,

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or a professional military
education instructor,

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is the individual that instructs airmen

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that are gonna become
first-line supervisors.

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- [Leslie] Your instructors
are also accredited

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so we're essentially professors

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if you want to think
about it that way, okay?

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- So without my position, we actually

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would not have individuals
that could supervise airmen.

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- [Leslie] An ALS instructor is someone

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who is responsible for
taking care of our airmen.

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And their first step for
professional military education

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is with us so we really
want to set the stage

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and set the standard for what their other

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PME experiences are gonna be like

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and show them the first steps
of leadership and supervision

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in the Air Force.

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- A significant benefit from coming to ALS

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is the airmen are challenged to network

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and understand, or start
to hear and understand

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the stories from the
different squadrons of people

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from different backgrounds,
subcultures, on the installation

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and those stories are sometimes

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a lot of times those airmen
feel like they're alone.

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And those stories, those
challenges are for them

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and them alone.

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But what they realize is that it's common.

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- The best part of the job as an airman,

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I mean, really going in
there every single day

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it starts to feel after five
weeks like a family in there.

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And I love the different
personalities and aspects

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of each and every one of
my students that come in

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and they teach me just as
much as I could teach them.

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- So we build and challenge airmen, okay?

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That is the number one thing.

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So when these airmen come in,

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I'm gonna tell them what
the want, all right?

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This is gonna be something
that is uncommon for you,

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and this is gonna challenge you.

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This is gonna make you feel
at some times vulnerable.

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So when they leave here, there's
a lot of negative thought

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and I want them to know
that that's not everything.

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There's better stuff out there,

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and that they could be the difference

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and that they can change people's lives

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by doing the right thing.

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