1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:06,522 Readiness for the 21st century 3 00:00:06,522 --> 00:00:08,189 warfighter is that ability to 4 00:00:08,189 --> 00:00:10,356 critically think about the issues that 5 00:00:10,356 --> 00:00:12,467 they're gonna deal with next year , 5 6 00:00:12,467 --> 00:00:14,840 years , 30 years down the road . We 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,840 don't know when that call will come 8 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,784 that they'll have to go and do the 9 00:00:18,784 --> 00:00:20,673 thing that they signed up for and 10 00:00:20,673 --> 00:00:22,840 sometimes just that stress inoculation 11 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,840 and I believe they do this in basic 12 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,840 training , but I think on the daily 13 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,896 within the work center talking about 14 00:00:28,896 --> 00:00:30,729 what could happen and also being 15 00:00:30,729 --> 00:00:30,200 educated on the threat that the 16 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,256 adversaries present . And that's not 17 00:00:32,256 --> 00:00:34,256 just , you know , kinetic effects , 18 00:00:34,256 --> 00:00:36,478 right ? We're talking about information 19 00:00:36,478 --> 00:00:38,533 warfare cyber warfare . Whether it's 20 00:00:38,533 --> 00:00:40,533 political , whether it's economic , 21 00:00:40,533 --> 00:00:42,700 whether it's , uh , any other means by 22 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:44,700 which they can influence that still 23 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:46,700 gets to the end that they want even 24 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:48,867 without firing guns , those are things 25 00:00:48,867 --> 00:00:51,089 we need to we need to understand and we 26 00:00:51,089 --> 00:00:50,630 need to be thinking about and not just 27 00:00:50,630 --> 00:00:52,519 kind of thinking in the maybe the 28 00:00:52,519 --> 00:00:55,209 traditional . War and peace terms . 29 00:00:58,729 --> 00:01:01,830 The 21st century war fighter is joint 30 00:01:01,830 --> 00:01:03,886 and we need to train like we fight , 31 00:01:03,886 --> 00:01:05,997 and so we have deliberately developed 32 00:01:05,997 --> 00:01:08,360 our classrooms to be reflective of that 33 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,527 potential combat environment by having 34 00:01:10,527 --> 00:01:12,693 sister service folks in there , having 35 00:01:12,693 --> 00:01:15,839 our multinational partners , and also 36 00:01:15,839 --> 00:01:19,584 injecting . The academics , not just 37 00:01:19,584 --> 00:01:21,640 through the formal schools of senior 38 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,917 NCAA NCAA and airman leadership school , 39 00:01:23,925 --> 00:01:25,995 but also using foundations which is 40 00:01:25,995 --> 00:01:28,217 held at the host installation level and 41 00:01:28,345 --> 00:01:30,456 the macoms are able to implement that 42 00:01:30,456 --> 00:01:32,289 how they wish . There's a lot of 43 00:01:32,289 --> 00:01:34,401 flexibility so that we can get around 44 00:01:34,401 --> 00:01:36,623 the A4 gen cycle and not interrupt it . 45 00:01:36,623 --> 00:01:38,845 We can't anticipate all the things that 46 00:01:38,845 --> 00:01:40,956 the Air Force , the space force , the 47 00:01:40,956 --> 00:01:43,123 nation are going to face . What we can 48 00:01:43,123 --> 00:01:45,234 do is give them the tools , give them 49 00:01:45,234 --> 00:01:47,345 the skill set to be able to deal with 50 00:01:47,345 --> 00:01:49,401 whatever that issue is when the time 51 00:01:49,401 --> 00:01:49,160 comes .