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A picture says 1000 words and that one 

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word can create a million ideas . And 

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so the two words I brought and that 

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I've learned over time and particularly 

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what I've learned in my military career 

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are how and why ? So in order to do 

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anything were taught how to do it . 

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When we're evaluating , we first 

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have to teach people how to do 

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something . And then when we evaluate 

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we assess how they did and then what's 

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most important is understanding why , 

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why it matters . And so when I came to 

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help the Air force stand up task force 

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liberty , I came with the idea that I 

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needed to understand how we were going 

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to do it . Which meant that I had to 

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help figure out how we were going to do 

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it and why what we were doing matter . 

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And so what I realized is that there 

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were a lot of things that informed how 

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I thought about how and why . And one 

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of the most important was lucidity ease 

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wrote about the Peloponnesian wars . 

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It's the first recorded history of war 

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and the war was between Athens and 

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Sparta and what facilities wrote was 

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that it's human nature for people to 

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fight over three things fear , 

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honor and interest . Fear is you don't 

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know and you may fear something you may 

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flee . Fear is you may decide you need 

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to fight honor . You'll draw the line 

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in the sand and interest . If there's 

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something that isn't plentiful enough 

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for people to share , they may end up 

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fighting over it . And so I realized 

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that our job was to help recover afghan 

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refugees afghan evacuees at risk 

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afghans and to provide them . Really 

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five things we had to receive them . We 

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had to provide safety security . We had 

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to um care for them and we had to 

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develop a community in order to support 

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them . And what we were focusing on was 

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alleviating their fear , reestablishing 

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their honor and helping them transition 

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to a point where they can be legal 

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residents in the US chasing their 

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american dream , realizing their 

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american dream and allowing them to get 

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back to their interests . And what I 

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also realized was that perception 

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is reality . So how you view things is 

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your reality ? How are afghan 

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evacuees view things is their 

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reality and their reality might be 

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very different from where they came to 

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where they are now here in the US 

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inside of joint base McGuire dix 

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Lakehurst while they transition to 

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chasing the american dream . And what I 

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also realized was that reality is 

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dynamic . Our realities change , our 

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perceptions change . But what's most 

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important is that misperception is both 

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dynamic and a reality . And so in 

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order to ensure that we've alleviated 

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their fear , reestablished their honor 

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and given them the path to chasing 

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their interests or their dreams . That 

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we had to make sure that we aligned any 

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misperceptions realigned any 

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misperceptions that they had to a 

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perception that was in essence 

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the reality . And in order to do that 

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three more words were introduced to me 

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that I'm going to take away for my life . 

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And those words were established by a 

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group of people talking and then the 

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commander saying , hey , that's it 

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better every day . That's our objective . 

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As we are receiving our afghan 

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evacuees as we are providing safety and 

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security for our afghan refugees as we 

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are caring for them and establishing a 

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community to support them while they're 

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transitioning , our objective is to 

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make better every day . That is in 

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essence our center of gravity . If we 

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can do that , then we will have a 

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thriving community that develop skills 

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that they will need to be more 

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successful as they transition to being 

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our newest citizens . But in order to 

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do that at Task Force Liberty , 

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we have to know that there's a 

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difference between crisis mitigation 

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And crisis mitigation looks like 

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124,000 Afghans flown 

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halfway around the world in 17 days by 

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Air Mobility Command . Part of crisis 

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mitigation is standing up Task Force 

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Liberty and within days receiving the 

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1st 1000 of what in weeks will become 

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13,000 afghan refugees now 

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living for a period of time on Joint 

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base McGuire dix Lakehurst and so to 

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make better every day , enduring are 

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enduring success is transitioning from 

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crisis mitigation to an 

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enduring mission that is planned 

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four success and so that takes me to 

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the three steps to do that . You have 

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to plan to be successful , 

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You have to communicate your plan so 

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that everybody understands what that 

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plan is , how it will be implemented so 

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that everybody understand what success 

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looks like . And then most importantly 

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you have to execute the plan that 

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you've communicated . And so we 

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successfully mitigated the crisis of 

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receiving are at risk afghan 

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evacuees in very rapid fashion . 

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And now it's our job to ensure that are 

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enduring mission is properly planned , 

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effectively communicated and executed . 

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And so that's not a static thing , it's 

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like reality . It's like perception or 

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misperception . It too is dynamic . And 

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so we have to look at how we're 

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executing that plan by observing how 

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it's executed orienting to the changes 

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that happen or to our environment , 

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deciding what we're gonna do next and 

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then acting and then circling back 

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around to do that over and over and 

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over again . I offer you five words for 

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making this mission successful in five 

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words that I hope you 

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internalize for how you make your life 

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more fulfilling and those five words 

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are how and why and better every day . 

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If you can understand how things work , 

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if you can understand how you're 

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supposed to do your job and why things 

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work the way they do in the world and 

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why what you're doing matters and every 

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day you can focus on making it better , 

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then this mission will be successful 

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and I think you will find life to be 

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much more fulfilling . Thank you