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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