WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:02.462 let's go on the side of your flight . I 00:02.462 --> 00:04.790 am seeing master Sandra retired Byron 00:04.790 --> 00:07.210 ren aerospace science instructor for 00:07.210 --> 00:09.570 Dakota High school , been here for five 00:09.570 --> 00:11.920 years . What I enjoy most working at 00:11.920 --> 00:14.070 the school is being able to sit and 00:14.070 --> 00:16.460 have a good conversation about life , 00:16.470 --> 00:19.220 you know , personal finances , conflict 00:19.220 --> 00:21.570 resolution , conflict management group 00:21.570 --> 00:23.600 and team dynamics . Those types of 00:23.610 --> 00:25.554 things I think are really , really 00:25.554 --> 00:27.721 important to how we shape us as people 00:27.721 --> 00:29.888 And I learned from them even still now 00:30.040 --> 00:33.080 yeah , one of them in my first goal in 00:33.080 --> 00:35.191 Georgia and planned for the Air Force 00:35.191 --> 00:37.136 Academy and he got in , he was the 00:37.136 --> 00:39.810 first cadet in the history of that high 00:39.810 --> 00:41.810 school . He went to the academy and 00:41.810 --> 00:43.921 came back and he had a rough ordeal . 00:43.921 --> 00:46.180 He was just at the crossroads , I don't 00:46.180 --> 00:48.291 know and I said , hey listen , you go 00:48.291 --> 00:50.458 back and you finished and if you don't 00:50.458 --> 00:52.458 mind wherever I am in the world , I 00:52.458 --> 00:54.624 just went a year , your first salute . 00:54.624 --> 00:56.736 So a few years ago by and then here I 00:56.736 --> 00:58.791 am getting the station back in Japan 00:58.791 --> 01:01.013 had to leave Georgia bittersweet but it 01:01.013 --> 01:03.291 was great to come back here . Then the , 01:03.291 --> 01:05.402 my former cadet reached out to me and 01:05.402 --> 01:07.624 said hey you're a graduate . And I said 01:07.624 --> 01:09.847 okay , I said I need the dates so I can 01:09.847 --> 01:12.069 get my plane tickets . And he said oh I 01:12.069 --> 01:12.020 didn't think he was going to be able to 01:12.030 --> 01:13.974 do that because you so far away in 01:13.974 --> 01:15.586 Japan and I said , hey , our 01:15.586 --> 01:17.530 conversation included me saying it 01:17.530 --> 01:19.641 doesn't matter where I am , I'm gonna 01:19.641 --> 01:20.641 come . Mhm 01:24.640 --> 01:28.470 okay , we have a little 01:28.730 --> 01:31.190 bit the interview , we have time , he 01:31.190 --> 01:33.690 just wanted to share some words , thank 01:33.690 --> 01:37.160 you , place 01:39.140 --> 01:41.160 for senior master sergeant , randy 01:41.170 --> 01:43.890 rendered me my first loot was one of 01:43.890 --> 01:46.168 the most incredible moments of my life , 01:46.168 --> 01:49.890 I you know throughout high school as 01:49.900 --> 01:52.530 he , he was a mentor to me and 01:52.540 --> 01:54.651 throughout college as well , he was , 01:54.651 --> 01:57.230 he was a role model and and so when I 01:57.230 --> 01:59.563 heard he went to Japan , I was actually , 01:59.563 --> 02:02.760 you know , I was kind of bummed because 02:03.540 --> 02:05.660 you know , I I knew that it was , it 02:05.660 --> 02:07.827 was a slim chance that he'd be able to 02:07.827 --> 02:09.993 make it out to my graduation and to do 02:09.993 --> 02:12.160 that a salute , so when he told me the 02:12.160 --> 02:14.400 week before , like hey like let me know 02:14.410 --> 02:16.521 I'll get a plane ticket and he's sure 02:16.521 --> 02:18.577 enough , the week of graduation he's 02:18.577 --> 02:22.490 there and uh man it up 02:22.490 --> 02:24.601 on stage , it was one of the happiest 02:24.601 --> 02:26.657 moments of my life and I still smile 02:26.657 --> 02:29.070 thinking about it , you know , for him 02:29.080 --> 02:31.810 to be the one to set me up to this 02:31.810 --> 02:34.720 position and to be there to experience 02:34.730 --> 02:37.580 my accomplishment with me um meant the 02:37.580 --> 02:41.570 world , so it was great , give a 02:41.570 --> 02:43.710 message to senior um what would you 02:43.710 --> 02:47.280 tell him , I would tell them ? Uh you 02:47.280 --> 02:49.910 know , thank you so much sir , like 02:49.910 --> 02:52.660 honestly your role model to me , I look 02:52.660 --> 02:54.980 up to you and I appreciate everything 02:54.980 --> 02:57.036 you've done for me , my family , you 02:57.036 --> 02:59.200 know , you're a great human being and 02:59.210 --> 03:03.130 just thank you so much sir . Thank you . 03:03.140 --> 03:05.850 That's awesome . That's awesome . And 03:05.860 --> 03:08.027 um I really appreciate everything that 03:08.027 --> 03:10.304 he's doing for us in the Air Force now , 03:10.304 --> 03:12.527 you know as an officer in the Air Force 03:12.527 --> 03:14.693 and I know he'll be a great leader but 03:14.693 --> 03:16.916 this is this is really priceless for me 03:16.916 --> 03:18.860 to be able to see that and to even 03:18.860 --> 03:20.860 experience it yet again , it's just 03:20.860 --> 03:22.916 awesome . So thank you all for doing 03:22.916 --> 03:25.910 this . I guess I got a little trend 03:25.910 --> 03:28.600 going down . I had a cadet here , got 03:28.600 --> 03:30.660 accepted to Annapolis to the Naval 03:30.660 --> 03:33.230 Academy . She reached out to me back in 03:33.230 --> 03:35.360 august and said , hey sergeant rand , 03:35.360 --> 03:37.527 it's my senior year . I would love for 03:37.527 --> 03:39.638 you to come back and give me my first 03:39.638 --> 03:41.971 salute if you can . If not I understand , 03:41.971 --> 03:45.360 I said give me the dates . 03:48.840 --> 03:49.050 Mhm .