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There used to be field training that

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you would have a cadre member and a

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cadet training assistant . They would ,

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you know , do the knife hand , right ?

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Tell you where to go . Tell you what to

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do , trainee , ma'am , trainee Smith ,

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ma'am . What did you call ? It's not

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like that . Uh We're not building

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followers , we're building leaders in

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this job . We prepare cadets uh for

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commissioning . Our mission is to

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develop air and space leaders of

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character who we expect to fight and

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win our nation's wars . Leadership is

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leadership across the board . But in

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this era of great power competition and

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in our goal to develop lieutenants that

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will be able to hit the ground running

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and leave their formation . We rely

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heavily on the education Air Force ROTC

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consists of 100 and 45 detachments or

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geographically separated units ,

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servicing about 1100 colleges and

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universities . You should not be able

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to tell the difference between an

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academy grad , a OTs grad and ROTC grad

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and for that matter , guard or reserve

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or active duty . Once they're in that

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seat performing their job , getting to

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that mission for that unit , they all

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should seem the same technology has

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advanced to the point that we can

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actually implement it in field training

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right now when our cadets land in

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Atlanta and before they bus , they

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would download that app check in . So

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we know their lat longs , we know where

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they are . And so we use that

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technology and they're accountable for

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it . They have to show up on time , be

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at a place on time . They have to eat

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on time , They gotta make sure they're

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transiting uh throughout the campus on

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time . And we're no longer like

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directing them . We're letting them

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develop and become leaders , holding

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them accountable and so far so good . I

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could not imagine ROTC in a better

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place than what it is now . Enhancing

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improvement , innovation , how to

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produce the best Lieutenant . And this

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Great power competition is causing us

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to look in different places and go in

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different directions than we were

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before . We are breaking that mold and

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we're gonna continue to go that way .