WEBVTT 01:19.610 --> 01:21.370 Legendary . 01:28.449 --> 01:30.449 All right , I'm gonna start out all 01:30.449 --> 01:32.671 over the place and I'll be the first to 01:32.671 --> 01:34.782 tell you as a joint force commander . 01:34.782 --> 01:36.970 It is forbidden for me to have a 01:36.980 --> 01:38.147 favorite component . 01:41.930 --> 01:44.650 But if I had to choose my favorite air 01:44.660 --> 01:48.550 component , you would be 01:48.559 --> 01:52.120 number one of one . Makes that strap 01:52.129 --> 01:55.769 worthwhile , doesn't it ? All right . I 01:55.779 --> 01:58.057 just want to say , uh Johnny and Becky , 01:58.057 --> 02:00.529 thank you so much for an amazing week . 02:00.540 --> 02:03.010 I can just feel the excitement . I can 02:03.019 --> 02:05.130 feel how we've all gotten a chance to 02:05.130 --> 02:08.899 get together to relu your personalities 02:08.910 --> 02:10.910 is exactly what the command needs . 02:11.100 --> 02:13.369 I've uh mentioned to others that when 02:13.380 --> 02:15.491 you get to this level , sometimes the 02:15.491 --> 02:17.436 responsibility might seem a little 02:17.436 --> 02:19.479 heavy , but nothing is scary when 02:19.490 --> 02:21.712 you're serving with Johnny Lamontagne . 02:21.712 --> 02:23.657 Let's hear it for your commander . 02:30.070 --> 02:32.126 Now . Uh I've heard some things this 02:32.126 --> 02:34.126 week . You've heard a lot of things 02:34.126 --> 02:36.237 this week and we're just gonna have a 02:36.237 --> 02:38.237 conversation and wrap it up . But I 02:38.237 --> 02:40.559 will tell you that when young Captain 02:40.570 --> 02:42.737 Reed and Lynn Reed were running around 02:42.737 --> 02:45.009 these halls , uh I did play a tiny bit 02:45.020 --> 02:47.690 of crud . Um I didn't get bruises but 02:47.699 --> 02:49.810 that's probably because I wasn't fast 02:49.810 --> 02:51.977 enough to make it around the other end 02:51.977 --> 02:54.143 of the table . But the thing that Lynn 02:54.143 --> 02:56.088 and I really loved about A T A was 02:56.088 --> 02:58.143 really the family atmosphere and the 02:58.143 --> 03:00.255 chance to get together and the chance 03:00.255 --> 03:02.143 to learn about legends , but most 03:02.143 --> 03:05.080 importantly , be with the legends . 03:06.179 --> 03:09.300 And so when in our younger days , we 03:09.309 --> 03:11.880 used to sit down and talk to the bagger , 03:13.360 --> 03:15.619 we used to sit down and get invited to 03:15.630 --> 03:17.463 have a conversation with General 03:17.463 --> 03:20.330 Fogelman . And for about four years 03:20.339 --> 03:22.970 running , we would sit down and have 03:22.979 --> 03:25.090 probably an hour , an hour and a half 03:25.090 --> 03:27.979 long conversation with Gail Hal , Gail 03:27.990 --> 03:31.300 Halverson and his bride . You cannot 03:31.309 --> 03:34.270 put a price on what happens in this 03:34.279 --> 03:37.139 venue . And when we all walked away , 03:37.479 --> 03:39.750 we were ready to storm the hills , we 03:39.759 --> 03:41.919 were ready to do whatever it took and 03:41.929 --> 03:43.985 we were ready to push pallets , give 03:43.985 --> 03:45.762 out fuel , fix airplanes and do 03:45.762 --> 03:47.707 whatever . And that's what made us 03:47.707 --> 03:50.039 successful . And I've been doing this 03:50.050 --> 03:53.580 for 35 years . So now 03:54.070 --> 03:57.690 it's just simply our turn and it's our 03:57.699 --> 04:00.720 turn to kind of come together amongst 04:00.729 --> 04:03.130 legends and to think about legends , 04:03.139 --> 04:05.570 but also to reflect on what is it that 04:05.580 --> 04:08.300 makes us legendary and makes us special . 04:08.679 --> 04:10.790 And so we're gonna take a little walk 04:10.790 --> 04:13.012 and we're just gonna reflect on some of 04:13.012 --> 04:15.012 that . And so if you don't mind , I 04:15.012 --> 04:17.230 would also like to say , uh I think we 04:17.239 --> 04:20.539 have some additional members here this 04:20.549 --> 04:23.049 year that we didn't necessarily have 04:23.058 --> 04:25.169 when Lynn and I were running around . 04:25.169 --> 04:27.002 So if I'm not mistaken , we have 04:27.002 --> 04:29.128 representatives from Singapore , 04:29.139 --> 04:33.118 Australia , Poland , the UK Canada and 04:33.128 --> 04:35.239 the heavy Airlift Wing . If you're in 04:35.239 --> 04:37.128 the audience , let's bring up the 04:37.128 --> 04:39.350 lights and let's recognize you . Please 04:41.940 --> 04:44.051 stand so we can see you . Thank you . 04:44.051 --> 04:46.051 Thank you . Thank you . Thank you . 04:51.920 --> 04:54.700 So for Singapore and Australia . Um I 04:54.709 --> 04:56.970 think it's a flip of the dime in terms 04:56.980 --> 04:58.813 of which one of you traveled the 04:58.813 --> 05:01.579 longest , but it's about 9700 to 10,000 05:01.589 --> 05:03.589 miles for you to get here . Right . 05:04.029 --> 05:06.140 Ladies and gentlemen , that is global 05:06.140 --> 05:09.929 air mobility . All right . 05:10.250 --> 05:13.220 So let's get started . Uh We're just 05:13.230 --> 05:15.341 gonna hold a conversation . I'm gonna 05:15.341 --> 05:17.563 share some things with you can , if you 05:17.563 --> 05:17.470 can bring down the house lights , 05:17.480 --> 05:19.549 please and getting ready for this to 05:19.559 --> 05:21.503 talk about some of the things that 05:21.503 --> 05:23.670 makes us special . One of the things I 05:23.670 --> 05:25.615 came across was airdrop and you've 05:25.615 --> 05:27.839 heard a lot about airdrop so far . But 05:27.850 --> 05:29.961 this particular airdrop story when we 05:29.961 --> 05:32.183 talk about things that have happened in 05:32.183 --> 05:34.294 the past isn't necessarily one that I 05:34.294 --> 05:36.406 had come across before in my 35 years 05:36.406 --> 05:39.339 of being around A T A . And this was an 05:39.350 --> 05:41.399 instance where during our darkest 05:41.410 --> 05:44.549 moments in the Korean War when we were 05:44.559 --> 05:48.100 being pressed , there was a moment 05:48.109 --> 05:50.869 where the North Koreans had cut off a 05:50.880 --> 05:53.260 bridge and a lot of our folks were 05:53.269 --> 05:55.940 about to get trapped with no way out . 05:56.709 --> 05:58.876 There wasn't an ability to roll up the 05:58.876 --> 06:01.470 army to break them out . There wasn't 06:01.480 --> 06:03.647 an airfield that we could land into to 06:03.647 --> 06:06.130 actually get them out . And so there 06:06.140 --> 06:08.820 was a cry for help , for help from 06:08.829 --> 06:11.970 above . And the idea became , we've 06:11.980 --> 06:14.790 done some airdrops before can we get 06:14.799 --> 06:17.489 some bridge parts so that we can 06:17.500 --> 06:19.739 rebuild this bridge that the North 06:19.750 --> 06:22.019 Koreans had destroyed . And the only 06:22.029 --> 06:24.251 problem was for these particular bridge 06:24.251 --> 06:26.418 parts , it wasn't anything that we had 06:26.418 --> 06:28.640 actually dropped before . And the parts 06:28.640 --> 06:30.807 were heavier and much larger than they 06:30.807 --> 06:32.918 ever had been . And so we figured out 06:32.918 --> 06:35.140 that we could fit them into the back of 06:35.140 --> 06:37.251 ac 119 , but we had no idea what kind 06:37.251 --> 06:39.307 of parachute configuration to put on 06:39.307 --> 06:41.640 them . But knowing that they were heavy , 06:41.640 --> 06:43.807 uh they decided that they would attach 06:43.807 --> 06:45.862 eight parachutes to each bridge part 06:45.862 --> 06:48.000 and we had one day to try it out . So 06:48.010 --> 06:51.119 on the trial run to go fly , they 06:51.130 --> 06:55.070 launched out the cargo two chutes open , 06:55.309 --> 06:57.476 the rest of the chutes open , they got 06:57.476 --> 07:00.369 entangled , they fell apart and the 07:00.380 --> 07:02.602 bridge part went straight to the ground 07:02.602 --> 07:06.489 and it was damaged . Yet there 07:06.500 --> 07:08.500 were more than 30,000 people on the 07:08.500 --> 07:11.399 ground who still needed our help . And 07:11.410 --> 07:13.850 so in our culture , we don't give up . 07:14.760 --> 07:16.871 And in our culture , we always find a 07:16.871 --> 07:19.769 way and there was somebody somewhere 07:19.779 --> 07:22.209 that's nameless . That was probably a 07:22.220 --> 07:24.331 staff sergeant or a tech sergeant who 07:24.331 --> 07:26.498 figured this out and said , you know , 07:26.498 --> 07:28.498 that's the wrong shoot compliment . 07:28.498 --> 07:30.664 Let's change the shoots and let's only 07:30.664 --> 07:32.609 use two and let's go do it again . 07:32.839 --> 07:35.061 Except when we went to do it again , we 07:35.061 --> 07:37.228 went to do it for real . So the ground 07:37.228 --> 07:39.395 forces only needed four bridge parts . 07:39.395 --> 07:41.920 We dropped eight and all eight were 07:41.929 --> 07:44.399 successful . We were able to 07:44.410 --> 07:46.519 re-establish the bridge . We saved 07:46.529 --> 07:48.839 30,000 people . We brought them down to 07:48.850 --> 07:50.850 the perimeter . We bought ourselves 07:50.850 --> 07:53.769 some time the nation , the world came 07:53.779 --> 07:56.700 together to eventually turn the tide of 07:56.709 --> 07:59.040 the conflict and start to march north . 07:59.640 --> 08:03.179 Our culture says that we believe in 08:03.190 --> 08:06.940 innovation and it saved the day . If I 08:06.950 --> 08:09.117 went back and read the newspaper again 08:09.117 --> 08:11.359 to look a little bit further , then we 08:11.369 --> 08:15.070 see that that has never stopped . And , 08:15.079 --> 08:17.399 and , and instead of innovation , we 08:17.410 --> 08:20.119 also do agility and with airdrops in 08:20.130 --> 08:22.352 this case , I think all of , you know , 08:22.352 --> 08:24.463 perfectly well , what airdrops did in 08:24.463 --> 08:27.119 Afghanistan . I think you all know what 08:27.130 --> 08:29.352 it did to take convoys off the road . I 08:29.352 --> 08:31.519 think you all know in terms of what it 08:31.519 --> 08:34.289 did to reduce the exposure of folks to 08:34.299 --> 08:38.299 danger . But there was also a 08:38.309 --> 08:40.476 point about the airdrops up front that 08:40.476 --> 08:42.698 we normally don't talk about . And that 08:42.698 --> 08:45.039 was shortly after 911 when we got the 08:45.049 --> 08:47.659 deployment order to go out our first 08:47.669 --> 08:50.320 airdrop combat mission actually wasn't 08:50.330 --> 08:52.274 resupplying sustainment to our own 08:52.274 --> 08:54.570 forces . It was actually dropping food 08:54.580 --> 08:57.739 to the citizens of Afghanistan to win 08:57.750 --> 08:59.972 their hearts and minds and to help them 08:59.972 --> 09:01.861 understand that we were not there 09:01.861 --> 09:04.083 because of them . We were there because 09:04.083 --> 09:06.194 of the folks who were misrepresenting 09:06.194 --> 09:09.489 them and through agility , we were able 09:09.500 --> 09:11.444 to save thousands and thousands of 09:11.444 --> 09:13.611 lives . It's in our culture and that's 09:13.611 --> 09:16.929 what made us successful rolling 09:16.940 --> 09:19.159 forward . I really like this one . How 09:19.169 --> 09:20.947 many of you are familiar with ? 09:20.947 --> 09:24.859 Operation C Thank 09:24.869 --> 09:26.147 you . I see one hand . 09:28.960 --> 09:30.979 So Chief Lossy stood up on the same 09:30.989 --> 09:32.989 stage and he talked about one thing 09:32.989 --> 09:34.822 very important . He talked about 09:34.822 --> 09:37.700 mission above roles , 09:38.570 --> 09:40.849 mission above rules . And here was a 09:40.859 --> 09:44.390 case where the Dutch were really , 09:44.400 --> 09:46.400 really suffering at the very end of 09:46.400 --> 09:48.400 World War Two , but they were still 09:48.400 --> 09:50.289 under occupation . The Occupation 09:50.289 --> 09:52.289 Forces hadn't exactly left yet . Um 09:52.289 --> 09:54.650 That was coming . But everybody 09:54.659 --> 09:56.770 understood that there were some folks 09:56.770 --> 09:58.881 who are suffering needlessly . And so 09:58.881 --> 10:01.340 there was an agreement actually between 10:01.349 --> 10:04.489 the two opposing sides as to how to 10:04.500 --> 10:07.809 allow the allies to deliver life saving 10:07.820 --> 10:10.760 food to the starving Dutch . And this 10:10.770 --> 10:12.826 is going to sound kind of familiar , 10:12.826 --> 10:14.937 but as part of that negotiation , the 10:14.937 --> 10:18.450 deal was allied aircraft could fly a 10:18.460 --> 10:21.849 preplanned route but it had to be low 10:21.859 --> 10:25.780 level 500 ft or below could not deviate 10:25.789 --> 10:27.678 from the routes . The routes were 10:27.678 --> 10:30.059 agreed to . We had to go to certain 10:30.070 --> 10:32.299 places , meaning airfields make the 10:32.309 --> 10:35.210 drops and then fly an established route 10:35.219 --> 10:37.549 out . Normally could not do a ret 10:37.619 --> 10:39.730 attack to get back . So if you missed 10:39.730 --> 10:41.786 the drop , you had to go all the way 10:41.786 --> 10:45.109 back to the UK . Sounds a lot like 10:45.119 --> 10:47.175 something that would happen later in 10:47.175 --> 10:50.869 about the 4849 time frame . And so in 10:50.880 --> 10:53.102 the course of doing this , we could not 10:53.102 --> 10:55.102 get mobility aircraft on station in 10:55.102 --> 10:57.429 time enough to save the lives . So we 10:57.440 --> 10:59.690 used bomber crews . And when I was 10:59.700 --> 11:01.969 looking at this , what was incredible 11:01.989 --> 11:04.340 was to read the personal accounts of 11:04.349 --> 11:06.293 the bomber crews that had actually 11:06.293 --> 11:09.609 participated in this . And one of them 11:09.619 --> 11:12.099 that struck me the most was a crew that 11:12.109 --> 11:15.530 had flown 19 combat missions , had 11:15.539 --> 11:18.059 taken personal damage on their airplane 11:18.070 --> 11:20.330 due to flak and all those kinds of 11:20.340 --> 11:22.690 things at high altitude . Very much 11:22.700 --> 11:24.867 afraid . But this was the mission that 11:24.867 --> 11:27.159 scared them the most because they had 11:27.169 --> 11:29.419 to take the guns off the airplanes . 11:29.780 --> 11:31.780 They had to show that they were not 11:31.780 --> 11:34.719 armed , they had to fly at 500 ft or 11:34.729 --> 11:36.951 below . And in some cases , they had to 11:36.951 --> 11:39.118 fly with the flaps down and the wheels 11:39.118 --> 11:41.820 down as they could see flat guns and 11:41.830 --> 11:43.969 anti aircraft guns either side of the 11:43.979 --> 11:47.229 route and the airfields totally exposed . 11:49.609 --> 11:51.776 But as an air force we did it anyway . 11:53.429 --> 11:55.596 And they said that they had never been 11:55.596 --> 11:57.262 more afraid to operate in the 11:57.262 --> 11:59.429 environments that you operate in every 11:59.429 --> 12:03.260 single day . Now , what's also pretty 12:03.270 --> 12:06.179 cool is the fact that for the US forces 12:06.309 --> 12:08.198 by the time we were done , we had 12:08.198 --> 12:11.559 dropped about 4000 tons to help save 12:11.570 --> 12:14.320 lives . Once again , if we can bring up 12:14.330 --> 12:16.960 the lights . Well , the representatives 12:16.969 --> 12:19.969 from Australia Poland and the UK , 12:19.979 --> 12:22.419 please stand because your countries 12:22.429 --> 12:24.640 were with us as we did the same thing 12:24.760 --> 12:27.219 and the three of you dropped over 7000 12:27.229 --> 12:29.285 tons . Thanks for standing with us . 12:38.630 --> 12:40.797 Missions over roll is very important , 12:42.070 --> 12:43.979 but the same thing happens today 12:44.130 --> 12:47.460 doesn't always happen in combat . So 12:47.469 --> 12:49.636 just within the last couple of years , 12:49.636 --> 12:51.747 we have garden reserve units who take 12:51.747 --> 12:54.119 their own personal time to work with 12:54.130 --> 12:56.640 Nongovernmental agencies who see a need 12:56.650 --> 12:58.539 somewhere . And they were able to 12:58.539 --> 13:01.799 collect over a million pounds of food 13:01.809 --> 13:04.630 and take it to Panama to save over 13:04.659 --> 13:07.049 100,000 people , to give it to starving 13:07.059 --> 13:10.109 Children and to help us build friends 13:10.119 --> 13:12.230 in places where the friendship really 13:12.230 --> 13:14.919 matters . And basically to outcompete 13:14.929 --> 13:18.250 the adversaries because in our culture , 13:18.260 --> 13:20.799 we have compassion and we care in our 13:20.809 --> 13:23.450 culture . We want to do what's best for 13:23.460 --> 13:25.238 the rest of the world . And our 13:25.238 --> 13:27.539 adversaries so far haven't been able to 13:27.549 --> 13:29.739 find that gene in their culture and 13:29.750 --> 13:32.260 they're losing in this space . Ladies 13:32.270 --> 13:34.700 and gentlemen , you own this . It's our 13:34.710 --> 13:37.640 a or , and we reign supreme and as your 13:37.650 --> 13:39.706 joint force commander , I'll support 13:39.706 --> 13:41.594 every last one of these that come 13:41.594 --> 13:42.594 across my desk , 13:48.359 --> 13:50.526 we talk about aeromedical evacuation . 13:50.526 --> 13:52.748 We know how special this is . This is a 13:52.748 --> 13:54.859 special gene in our character that we 13:54.859 --> 13:56.970 exhibit in terms of wanting to save a 13:56.970 --> 14:00.289 life and we will go to no end to do 14:00.299 --> 14:03.450 that . The thing that strikes me here 14:03.460 --> 14:06.700 is at this certain point in time , we 14:06.710 --> 14:08.932 have a captain flight nurse and we have 14:08.932 --> 14:11.099 enlisted techs that are taking care of 14:11.099 --> 14:13.266 a burn patient . But what's noteworthy 14:13.266 --> 14:15.349 about this particular instance is we 14:15.359 --> 14:17.470 have a dedicated aircraft known as AC 14:17.470 --> 14:19.637 nine . I never got to fly it . I heard 14:19.637 --> 14:21.979 it was a great sports car but with 14:21.989 --> 14:24.156 specialized equipment , this is how we 14:24.156 --> 14:26.919 took care of our own in this particular 14:26.929 --> 14:29.151 fright flight right here . The big deal 14:29.151 --> 14:31.318 is we were able to take a burn patient 14:31.318 --> 14:33.580 from the combat zone and actually move 14:33.590 --> 14:35.646 them several 100 miles away to Clark 14:35.646 --> 14:37.890 Air Base to safety , to actually get 14:37.900 --> 14:40.010 them to a higher level of care , to 14:40.020 --> 14:42.242 stabilize them , to eventually get them 14:42.250 --> 14:45.869 to where they needed to be . The nature 14:45.880 --> 14:48.799 of that mission hasn't changed except 14:48.809 --> 14:51.539 for maybe a couple of things . One we 14:51.549 --> 14:53.271 can no longer afford to have a 14:53.271 --> 14:55.105 dedicated aircraft . And through 14:55.105 --> 14:57.327 innovation , we use any aircraft that's 14:57.327 --> 14:59.780 available . So anyone in here who flies 14:59.789 --> 15:02.011 fixes or supports a mobility aircraft , 15:02.020 --> 15:04.619 you contribute to this . But the neat 15:04.630 --> 15:06.630 thing about it is is we're not just 15:06.630 --> 15:09.080 contained to the theater and I think 15:09.090 --> 15:12.900 you're familiar with this . So when we 15:12.909 --> 15:15.570 had a CV 22 crash in Australia , and 15:15.580 --> 15:18.090 you've heard about the marvelous 15:18.099 --> 15:21.400 leadership displayed in this one , the 15:21.409 --> 15:23.631 marine who suffered here also is a burn 15:23.631 --> 15:26.359 patient , but also had some kind of 15:26.369 --> 15:29.380 severe infection inside of their body . 15:29.390 --> 15:31.479 And we heard just this morning about 15:31.489 --> 15:34.640 some specialized machine um that I 15:34.650 --> 15:37.559 can't pronounce the , the ECMO . 15:38.369 --> 15:40.313 And so since I can't pronounce the 15:40.313 --> 15:42.258 words , I had to look up what ECMO 15:42.258 --> 15:44.669 actually is . And that's when the 15:44.679 --> 15:46.901 medical folks , you can correct me 100% 15:46.901 --> 15:50.429 is when we actually use machines to 15:50.440 --> 15:52.662 take the blood and have it filtered and 15:52.662 --> 15:55.070 flow outside the body , get oxygen back 15:55.080 --> 15:57.191 into it and put it back into the body 15:57.409 --> 15:59.830 in order to allow someone to survive . 16:00.280 --> 16:02.950 And in this case , we were able to move 16:02.960 --> 16:05.809 someone from Australia directly to 16:05.820 --> 16:09.770 Texas over 10,000 miles , 18 16:09.780 --> 16:12.002 hours of flight . And oh , by the way , 16:12.002 --> 16:14.224 the machine failed in flight . And this 16:14.224 --> 16:16.349 was the first instance where the crew 16:16.359 --> 16:18.979 actually repaired the machine in flight 16:18.989 --> 16:20.190 to save a life . 16:22.549 --> 16:26.369 This is part of our culture , this 16:26.380 --> 16:28.780 is part of what we do . This is part of 16:28.789 --> 16:31.150 what's special that any time we see 16:31.159 --> 16:34.440 this , we all have to celebrate because 16:34.450 --> 16:36.840 this crowd more than more than anyone 16:36.849 --> 16:40.119 else knows how to do things like this 16:40.270 --> 16:42.549 and then transfer those skills and 16:42.559 --> 16:45.299 broaden it out . So as your joint force 16:45.309 --> 16:48.869 commander with the responsibility from 16:48.880 --> 16:50.936 our National Command authorities for 16:50.936 --> 16:53.409 patient movement . I do not lose a 16:53.419 --> 16:55.530 moment of sleep at night knowing that 16:55.530 --> 16:57.419 when called upon you can get this 16:57.419 --> 16:59.586 mission done . Thank you very much and 16:59.586 --> 16:58.989 give yourselves a hand . 17:06.020 --> 17:08.719 And with that , let's give another 17:08.729 --> 17:11.239 round of applause to tech sergeant Jian 17:11.640 --> 17:13.473 Chaparro who took part in this . 17:19.650 --> 17:21.594 If you remember he was our General 17:21.594 --> 17:23.599 Heiser Award Aeromedical Technician 17:23.609 --> 17:25.989 category of the year award winner . So 17:26.000 --> 17:29.650 thank you so much . This is a 17:29.660 --> 17:31.880 case where for some folks , uh there's 17:31.890 --> 17:34.640 a certain go out there named uh General 17:34.650 --> 17:36.761 Simmons who would say that for them , 17:36.761 --> 17:38.983 this was just another Tuesday . But for 17:38.983 --> 17:40.983 us , it's really extraordinary . So 17:40.983 --> 17:43.569 here we have a crew from the 22nd air 17:43.579 --> 17:45.579 refueling wing at the time , Jim 17:45.589 --> 17:47.880 Pittman uh on the far end there , I 17:47.890 --> 17:50.209 used to fly with him . They are out in 17:50.219 --> 17:54.099 the theater . Uh an F-15 17:54.109 --> 17:57.140 crew goes down and they're in a hostile 17:57.150 --> 17:59.479 environment . Uh It's an area where we 17:59.489 --> 18:01.767 typically don't send mobility aircraft . 18:02.010 --> 18:04.390 And with the airman's creed , they 18:04.400 --> 18:06.289 believe and never leave an airman 18:06.289 --> 18:08.930 behind . And so they did the risk 18:08.939 --> 18:10.717 mitigation in terms of what the 18:10.717 --> 18:12.939 situation was . They looked at who else 18:12.939 --> 18:14.828 was around to help . There wasn't 18:14.828 --> 18:16.995 anyone they decided what they could do 18:16.995 --> 18:19.770 to , to try to bring things together , 18:19.780 --> 18:22.109 establish command and control in the 18:22.119 --> 18:24.939 air , how long they could stay airborne . 18:24.949 --> 18:27.060 And they actually went into the mouth 18:27.060 --> 18:28.949 of the cat stayed into the threat 18:28.949 --> 18:32.270 environment and operated there . And 18:32.280 --> 18:35.890 for that , they were recognized , this 18:36.069 --> 18:39.050 is a case where we have bravery and 18:39.060 --> 18:43.030 audacity to do whatever it takes . And 18:43.040 --> 18:45.310 we simply will never shy away from the 18:45.319 --> 18:48.430 contested environment . We never have , 18:48.439 --> 18:52.329 we never will . We 18:52.339 --> 18:54.430 heard about this one . Also this 18:54.439 --> 18:58.329 morning , captain will will cook and 18:59.040 --> 19:00.818 the part of our culture that he 19:00.818 --> 19:04.160 exemplifies as a current day legend 19:04.530 --> 19:07.630 is valor teamwork 19:08.619 --> 19:12.400 and commitment to his fellow lawyer and 19:12.410 --> 19:15.099 I won't dig down and to rehash the 19:15.109 --> 19:17.165 situation here . But this is another 19:17.165 --> 19:18.998 one where they were in a hostile 19:18.998 --> 19:20.887 environment . There were multiple 19:20.887 --> 19:23.780 problems to be solved by allowing 19:23.790 --> 19:26.939 everyone on the crew to participate and 19:26.949 --> 19:29.099 to help solve the problem and address 19:29.109 --> 19:31.339 it and to anticipate the next step , 19:31.810 --> 19:33.699 they were able to see everyone to 19:33.699 --> 19:35.939 safety and the presidential directed 19:35.949 --> 19:38.520 mission to evacuate American citizens 19:38.530 --> 19:40.863 from a hostile environment was achieved . 19:41.569 --> 19:44.579 And so to Captain Will Cook . Thank you 19:44.589 --> 19:47.130 very much another mobility warrior 19:47.239 --> 19:48.510 winner and legend . 19:55.339 --> 19:57.561 Now this is a point where we transition 19:57.561 --> 20:00.300 to the fact that all week long , I know 20:00.310 --> 20:03.290 that you've heard about the current and 20:03.300 --> 20:05.869 emerging security environment that 20:05.880 --> 20:08.530 there are folks out there who we call . 20:08.540 --> 20:11.310 Adversaries who are willing to take us 20:11.319 --> 20:15.010 on . There are some adversaries 20:15.130 --> 20:17.297 who are doing everything that they can 20:17.297 --> 20:19.910 to design their force and to design 20:19.920 --> 20:23.709 their weapons to take out our legendary 20:23.719 --> 20:26.680 winners . So I don't have to stand 20:26.689 --> 20:29.530 before you and try to explain to you 20:29.540 --> 20:32.829 what's going on . Just simply watch for 20:32.839 --> 20:33.839 yourself . 21:53.989 --> 21:55.969 Please stand by 21:57.729 --> 22:01.640 looks and sounds a little ominous from 22:01.650 --> 22:05.430 an adversary that is working to counter 22:05.439 --> 22:09.310 what we do in every single domain . We 22:09.319 --> 22:11.530 just witnessed examples of the air 22:11.540 --> 22:14.609 domain , the maritime domain , 22:15.530 --> 22:19.439 cyber and space , but it's not 22:19.449 --> 22:21.400 us who have to stand by . 22:23.469 --> 22:26.449 Our adversary has to stand by 22:27.319 --> 22:30.319 because there's one domain they simply 22:30.329 --> 22:33.900 can't touch . And that's the domain of 22:33.910 --> 22:37.810 our mobility culture . They are not 22:37.819 --> 22:41.040 able to touch our sense of valor . 22:42.099 --> 22:45.180 They are not able to touch our desire 22:45.189 --> 22:48.170 to innovate . They are not able 22:49.050 --> 22:52.319 to take us on to do what we do best . 22:52.569 --> 22:54.791 And that's to make sure that the fellow 22:54.791 --> 22:56.958 members of our joint force will always 22:56.958 --> 23:00.790 succeed . Nor can they touch our desire 23:01.920 --> 23:04.339 to practice the way that we're going to 23:04.349 --> 23:07.130 fight . And so as your joint force 23:07.140 --> 23:10.670 commander in every domain that we own , 23:12.130 --> 23:14.939 I need you to continue to do the very 23:14.949 --> 23:16.949 things that you're doing because it 23:16.949 --> 23:19.819 scares them to death . And when I look 23:19.829 --> 23:22.150 at the experimentation that's going on , 23:22.530 --> 23:24.586 and when I look at the degree of the 23:24.586 --> 23:26.697 exercises that you're designing , and 23:26.697 --> 23:28.752 when I look at what we're empowering 23:28.752 --> 23:31.199 everybody within our force to do , I 23:31.209 --> 23:33.439 can't help but be filled with a sense 23:33.449 --> 23:35.989 of pride and I can't help , be filled 23:36.000 --> 23:38.660 with a sense of hope . And it lets me 23:38.670 --> 23:40.892 know that we're gonna be all right . So 23:40.900 --> 23:43.067 I'll just point out one simple example 23:43.689 --> 23:47.410 in Exodus culture 23:47.420 --> 23:50.050 of being the next one to be legendary , 23:52.500 --> 23:55.239 the next one to be legendary . So here 23:55.250 --> 23:58.859 we have an example of ac 130 crew who 23:58.869 --> 24:02.300 is doing a max endurance operation and 24:03.040 --> 24:04.707 they're taking it on from the 24:04.707 --> 24:06.707 standpoint that they know that they 24:06.707 --> 24:08.707 don't have to go outside the United 24:08.707 --> 24:11.189 Force , the United States to prove that 24:11.199 --> 24:13.199 they're the force that can get this 24:13.199 --> 24:15.199 done . So in this particular case , 24:15.199 --> 24:17.670 this crew got up , put a number of 24:17.680 --> 24:19.791 crews on the airplane , established a 24:19.791 --> 24:22.760 work rest cycle to be airborne for more 24:22.770 --> 24:25.739 than 36 hours . And then once they got 24:25.750 --> 24:27.917 back on the ground because of the work 24:27.917 --> 24:30.849 rest cycle , they peeled off a portion 24:30.859 --> 24:32.859 of that crew and they went into the 24:32.859 --> 24:35.081 simulator and they operated for another 24:35.081 --> 24:37.989 four . And so over the course of a 40 24:38.000 --> 24:41.180 hour period , the demonstration here is 24:41.189 --> 24:44.229 that we can mobilize , we can get out 24:44.239 --> 24:46.790 of town , we can go anywhere we want to 24:46.800 --> 24:48.856 on the face of this earth . And then 24:48.856 --> 24:51.078 when we get to where we need to be , we 24:51.078 --> 24:54.650 can employ and because we can employ as 24:54.660 --> 24:56.716 soon as we get there , we reduce our 24:56.716 --> 24:58.771 footprint on the ground and we're no 24:58.771 --> 25:01.260 longer a target . I can't think 25:02.280 --> 25:04.660 another group of people who would even 25:04.670 --> 25:07.709 begin to think that way than you . 25:09.280 --> 25:12.520 And it all began with the fact that we 25:12.530 --> 25:14.752 understand that we need to stand on the 25:14.752 --> 25:17.390 shoulders of others . We look back at 25:17.400 --> 25:19.849 the legends that have come before and 25:19.859 --> 25:22.209 we had the audacity to ask one simple 25:22.219 --> 25:25.599 question . Were they better than us 25:26.969 --> 25:30.900 or is it simply our turn ? And I will 25:30.910 --> 25:33.719 tell you my number one air component , 25:35.530 --> 25:38.619 it is your turn . But you don't have to 25:38.630 --> 25:41.890 be afraid because inside of you , you 25:41.900 --> 25:44.699 have what it takes inside of you , you 25:44.709 --> 25:47.420 know what to do and above you , we're 25:47.430 --> 25:50.280 doing everything that we can to equip 25:50.290 --> 25:53.469 you . And so let's take a moment to 25:53.479 --> 25:55.479 remember what we've heard this week 25:56.280 --> 25:58.869 from the Secretary of the Air Force . I 25:58.880 --> 26:00.880 think he talked about the battle of 26:00.880 --> 26:03.609 Stalingrad and he talked about how that 26:03.619 --> 26:06.069 battle was lost , primarily because 26:06.079 --> 26:08.079 people didn't know how to run their 26:08.079 --> 26:10.239 airlift . But you know how to run the 26:10.250 --> 26:12.520 airlift , you know how to run air 26:12.530 --> 26:14.530 mobility and you know how to get it 26:14.530 --> 26:16.697 done from the Chief master Sergeant of 26:16.697 --> 26:19.910 the Air Force . He told us how we need 26:19.920 --> 26:22.099 to trust those who are on our left and 26:22.109 --> 26:24.430 right and that we need to concentrate 26:24.439 --> 26:26.699 more on the mission and less on the 26:26.709 --> 26:29.550 badge that we have . And every single 26:29.560 --> 26:31.727 day of the week , you're demonstrating 26:31.727 --> 26:34.170 that from the Chief of staff of the Air 26:34.180 --> 26:37.199 Force . I thought he brought it 26:37.209 --> 26:39.376 together extremely well when he talked 26:39.376 --> 26:42.780 about legends and he talked about what 26:42.790 --> 26:45.329 the legends before us have taught us . 26:45.489 --> 26:47.640 And he talked about the importance of 26:47.650 --> 26:49.372 being amongst the legends in a 26:49.372 --> 26:52.050 situation like this . But the most 26:52.060 --> 26:54.469 important thing he told us is , and he 26:54.479 --> 26:57.089 reminded us that all of those legends 26:57.099 --> 26:59.390 did all of the amazing things that they 26:59.400 --> 27:02.739 did with the tools that they had on 27:02.750 --> 27:06.619 hand . And that's one 27:06.630 --> 27:09.349 thing I need you to remember . I will 27:09.359 --> 27:11.470 not be able to get you the kit of the 27:11.470 --> 27:14.790 future that folks are promising if the 27:14.800 --> 27:17.022 nation asks us to fight in the next two 27:17.022 --> 27:19.849 minutes . But I'm very confident that 27:19.859 --> 27:22.081 if we're asked to fight in the next two 27:22.081 --> 27:24.248 minutes , you too will become a legend 27:24.729 --> 27:27.420 with the tools at hand . Now , you're 27:27.430 --> 27:29.486 probably asking , sir , how do we do 27:29.486 --> 27:32.689 that ? I don't have to tell you how to 27:32.699 --> 27:35.910 do that . Your commander , General 27:36.010 --> 27:38.177 Lamontagne has already told you how to 27:38.177 --> 27:40.288 do that . And if you were listening , 27:41.079 --> 27:43.359 you know exactly how he spelled it out , 27:43.689 --> 27:45.745 you know , exactly the time frame to 27:45.745 --> 27:47.800 get it done and you know exactly the 27:47.800 --> 27:50.219 expectation . So 27:51.390 --> 27:54.569 as his commander , I am trusting him 27:55.290 --> 27:57.719 to deliver for the nation . The only 27:57.729 --> 28:00.089 thing that I expect to tell him is to 28:00.099 --> 28:03.410 go and when I tell him to go , 28:04.069 --> 28:06.180 I've got every bit of confidence that 28:06.180 --> 28:08.739 air mobility is going to be there . So 28:08.750 --> 28:11.410 if you put all that together , be 28:11.420 --> 28:14.630 audacious , be brave , 28:16.199 --> 28:19.489 be creative , be yourself , 28:21.520 --> 28:25.359 be like General Joe Jackson . I call 28:25.369 --> 28:27.202 him General because I think he's 28:27.202 --> 28:31.000 amazing . Never leave an 28:31.010 --> 28:34.430 airman behind . Do what it takes to get 28:34.439 --> 28:36.760 the mission done . And one of the most 28:36.770 --> 28:39.040 important things I learned from Gail 28:39.050 --> 28:40.828 Halverson is even though you're 28:40.828 --> 28:43.180 operating in danger , there's always a 28:43.189 --> 28:46.180 way to make it fun . And when you make 28:46.189 --> 28:48.489 it fun , there's no limit to the good 28:48.500 --> 28:52.020 you can do . So you put it all 28:52.030 --> 28:54.890 together . These add up to one thing , 29:01.520 --> 29:02.520 roll the video . 29:28.979 --> 29:30.923 You are the legends of today . The 29:30.930 --> 29:33.152 legends of tomorrow . Give yourselves a 29:33.152 --> 29:34.469 hand and let's wrap up a great week .