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this is very important to me as a

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leader . Um I had a commander once tell

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me , um he said , hey , chief be the

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leader that the people need to be ,

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right . And so , um , they didn't need

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me to be a mission oriented leader .

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That's not what they needed . The

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people in the logistics readiness

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squadron needed me to be a person that

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saw them as a human , um that was

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compassionate , um , that could afford

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to be a little vulnerable , saw them

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and let them experience their emotions

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in a safe space . And so , um that's

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what I did for my last year . I took it

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back to the basis . We like to call it

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soft skills . Right ? And so that is

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where I operated for the last 12 months

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was with my soft skills . Because the

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one thing about insulin is that we were

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going through a pandemic , the base was

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locked down , right ? Um You have

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people who cannot run away from their

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demons . Um and so you have to deal

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with those things here . You like in

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the States , you're you have other

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distractions and there's things you can

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do in the States to not deal with raw

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emotions . And so here , there's

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nowhere to run , right . There's

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nowhere to run . The basis was locked

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down at the time . We're in the middle

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of a pandemic . We have family members

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passing away left and right . Um and

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you got people here , Airmen Big a

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chairman never left . The United States

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never left . Their kids never left

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their spouses . Right . And so you you

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have all of that here and and they

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don't teach you . Um There's no one . I

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could pick up the phone and be like ,

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hey , how do you get through a pandemic

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on the lockdown basis ? Right . We all

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were playing from the same Foundation .

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And so you have to , I had to really

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lean on myself skills and be be human

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with people , um , and give them the

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safe space to be able to deal with that .

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And so , um that is that is what I

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would tell any leader . Um , just

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because you were a leader at one place

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does not mean that's the type of leader

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you need to be at your new duty station .

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And so you have to check yourself and

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feel and and ask yourself what type of

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leader does the people need from me at

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this time in my life .