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Good morning . Good morning . Welcome

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to December , December , December .

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Happy holidays , happy holidays and

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belated Thanksgiving , a fun drill .

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We're going to have our ceremony coming

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up and our commanders call as well as

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all the holiday parties , everything .

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So it's a good one to the ST

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what has happened since last drill

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though , aside from eating a ton of

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food at Thanksgiving and the time off ,

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I would say the ARG returning the air

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refueling group returned on November

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9th . So they , yeah , they came back

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in a staggered fashion . Uh , four

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ships and personnel returned . So ,

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very happy to have them back . You had

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great footage of those reunions . Thank

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you . Thanks . Yeah , it's always nice

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to , to get out there and document the

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return . Those were the nice days .

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Yeah . And the A NG and National Guard

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Bureau thought so too . He did . Yeah ,

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they , they played a lot of it . Well ,

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it's a time of year that you want to

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show that sort of thing . So , but it

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was also good . Thank you . Uh What

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else is happening ? Some more new

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initiatives . We've been working more

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closely with our recruiters to spread

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the word about hot jobs , they're

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looking to fill events in the community

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and this year's referral bonus .

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Ok . So there's a lot packed in there

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first . What's considered a hot job or

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like what's an example of that ? So the

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hot jobs are the jobs that we're

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looking to fill right now . We need to

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put people in those positions . So a

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lot of those hot jobs are in

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maintenance and it's the same on case

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135 A and a 10 side . So there are a

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lot of personnel in the maintenance

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field . So that's a lot of personnel to

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fill year to year . There's a lot of

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different types of jobs too . So if you

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know anybody that's interested in

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joining the wing and joining the

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maintenance field , then um please

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reach out to one of our recruiters and

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make sure that you follow through with

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the referral . So if you're in uniform ,

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serving here in the wing already , you

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bring somebody in who's interested in

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joining , you can get a referral bonus

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and it's not like you have to jump

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through a lot of hoops to get it . It's

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very simple once that person enlists

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and there's a little bit of criteria ,

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but once there are exceptions , um you

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go to a website , you fill in your

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information , the person's name and

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their info and then you submit it and

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it's super easy . It's not as easy as

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just dropping them off at the visitor

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center saying and picking up a tell him

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Drew Schuman sent you , then you get a

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little extra in your paycheck or

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something like that . So what is

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happening ? This drill in about three

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hours , we are all going to head over

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to hangar 36 for our annual Wing all

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event . So we'll have our short

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commanders call followed by our

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outstanding airmen of the year ceremony .

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So is it accurate to say that December

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is the XP to resistance depending

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on what that means . So how many

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categories are there ? So there are 11

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categories , that's eight military

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categories and three civilian

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categories . So there's airmen of the

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year NCO Senior NCOCGO , first

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sergeant , honor guard recruiter and

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then our commanders trophy for the

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military side . And then on the

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civilian side , we have our title five

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title five supervisor and state

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employee of the year . So very cool . I

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can't wait to see who comes out on top

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of this . I know me too . So we need to

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be in our seats at 09 45 and we will

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send out push notifications like we did

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last year . Um If you haven't

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downloaded the Wing app , what are you

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doing ? What's wrong ? What's wrong

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with you ? It's been like a year . Yeah ,

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why not ? You will get the push

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notification reminders and a lot of

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other information . So you can download

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that . There will be an abundance of

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holiday parties as well . Indeed , in

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abundance in abundance . So be safe you

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know , back in the early days of my air

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force career , we practiced 0013 . I

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don't , I don't know if that's defunct

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anymore , but what that stands for is

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zero underage drinking offenses , zero

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driving while intoxicated offenses , uh

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one drink per hour , three drinks

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maximum if you're driving . So , yeah ,

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it's uh best practice is to just not

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drive at all if you're going to be uh

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partaking in libations . So , yeah .

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Well , speaking of celebration , the 1

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27th communications flight will be

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holding a ceremony on Saturday to honor

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their redesignation . Ok . What's that

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mean ? They're leveling up , they're

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leveling up , they're leveling up from

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a flight to a squadron back to a

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squadron . I used to be in the com

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squadron . Yeah . So multimedia .

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So we were SVSSS .

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So it was photographers , videographers ,

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graphic artists in the com squadron .

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Yeah , it was cool . I wonder if we

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have graphic artist anymore . I think

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they're contracted out now . It makes

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sense . Uh , load . Are we doing a load

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this year ? Yes , there will be a load

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crew of the year competition as always

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held in December . So that's when the

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weapons loaders compete amongst

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themselves in different teams to see

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who is the quickest team to load

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armament on aircraft on the A 10

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aircraft . What do they get when they

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do that ? I think they get bragging

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rates and maybe a special parking spot .

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Ok . But I guess we'll find out it's

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cool . So , next drill , next time

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we're together is going to be at the

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end of January . Is that correct ? Yeah .

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So we have about , what , seven weeks

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between drills ? Yeah , we'll have a

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super drill the 25th through the 28th

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of January . So it'll be nice to enjoy

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the holidays and not be in drill prep

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mode and not just have to like , jump

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right back into it . Right . The theme

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of this year's Wing Ball is legacy . So

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if you and if you have multiple

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generations in your family who have

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served here at Selfridge , please send

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photos , tell us about those

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relationships so we can feature those

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at the wing ball for sure . So ,

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thinking of history and these

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decorations are awesome , by the way ,

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all courtesy of Sergeant Schumann . I

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was wondering why we had the cactus .

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So the seguro cactus as you can see is

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featured on our wing crest . Yes . Why

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do we have a cactus if we're in

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Michigan ? A lot of people wonder that .

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I wonder that for a lot of years until

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I read the fact sheet . Um So as it

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turns out our lineage , uh part of our

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history goes back to Luke Air Force

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Base in Arizona where we were training

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our fighter squadron during the Korean

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War . So a part of our heart is in

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Arizona . So that is why we feature the

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cactus . Yeah , and you can read more

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about the Crest and other historical

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points of interest on our wing web page

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by going to about us and then finding

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the fact sheet . Yeah , a lot of great

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history . So with that , I mean ,

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that's a lot of cause for celebration

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and I think we're going to be busy this

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drill , so we should probably get to it .

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Right . We'll have a lot to talk about

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next drill as well with our , with our

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winners of a lot of , a lot of good

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stuff to show . So , uh , you know ,

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track this drill via Divis and our

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website and follow along with

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everything that's going on here . Yeah ,

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definitely . Well , have a great , you

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have a great and happy holiday . Happy

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Holiday .