Airman

And it was really just me talking about my personal story, what I was thinking about and how I grew up.

When I recorded it, it was really more, I was really focused on the Airmen of Pacific Air Forces, but it went much broader than that.

Partly because I didn't tell anybody I was doing this.

I mean, I didn't tell anybody above me.

sure you've had the same experience as me having played with legacy admin systems, right? where it took two hours just to taunt on all the systems.

And you've got like 10 laptops and 10 different screens, you know, and a team of five people just to taunt on an Airman aircraft.

At the end of the day, you're like, this isn't sustainable.

Like, what are we doing, right? It might work in an Afghanistan, Iraq setting, but it's not going to work in the Pacific where we're getting shot at.

He's declaring this a massive win.

Well, what's interesting to me, what wasn't reported on state regime media, Fox, or frankly, any other corporate news i tend to think this is a pretty big freaking story right here air and space forces dot com reports two u.s air force airmen supporting the trump regime's catastrophic war in iran died last month and that wasn't reported until just yesterday the trump regime didn't make any announcements about these deaths they just changed the number on their non-combat death list, not epic theory, just non-combat death list added two US Air Force Airmen, no statements by Hegseth, no statements by the Trump regime at all.

This actually, and they said, eh, it's not killed in action, not combat, because they say we're not in war anymore.

At least 23 US service members have died.

The PTSD is an SOB still to this day, and the VA says I'll most likely never be free of it.

On September 2nd of 1944, as dawn broke over the Pacific Ocean, a group of US Navy Airmen serving aboard the USS San Jacinto climbed into their planes and took to the skies.

They were based on one of the many American aircraft carriers which now dotted the Eastern Pacific, and their destination was the tiny island of Chichijima.

Located around 500 miles from the Japanese mainland, Imperial forces had established a small naval base on Chichijima way back in 1914, but by September of 1944, the island had become their primary communications hub for the entire Pacific theater.

I'll just sort of end this example by saying that what interested me most about this particular prize example was that I think this explosion of and this real, these interesting innovations in prize philanthropy reignited interest in government and the public sector in using prizes.

The Airmen had long used prizes, but they sort of fell out of favor.

And in 2008, for example, when the Obama administration came in They brought in the Innocentives, and they brought in the Rockefeller Foundations, and they brought in, Ashoka had been doing prizes and challenges, and they brought in a couple of other, the Case Foundations, the X Prize is a big one, and they brought them in and they said, how can we start to think about prizes in the public sector context again? And not just at places like NASA or the Department of Defense that has long used prizes and tournaments, and they think a lot about technology, but can we use the sort of prize or challenge model to address social challenges, so much harder to define, harder to measure issues like the achievement gap, or obesity and asthma in the inner cities, or challenges that were sort of more entrenched and complex and harder than a particular technological breakthrough.

And so there was a directive across government, and if you see, if you go on now to www.challenges.gov, there are many government agencies, you know, from Race to the Top, which is, you know, a billion-dollar essentially prize at the Department of Education, to much smaller sort of community-level prizes that the Obama administration and also many state and local governments are starting to play with.

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On September 2nd of 1944, as dawn broke over the Pacific Ocean, a group of US Navy Airmen serving aboard the USS San Jacinto climbed into their planes and took to the skies.

They were based on one of the many American aircraft carriers which now dotted the Eastern Pacific, and their destination was the tiny island of Chichijima.

Located around 500 miles from the Japanese mainland, Imperial forces had established a small naval base on Chichijima way back in 1914, but by September of 1944, the island had become their primary communications hub for the entire Pacific theater.

Anyway, long story short.

Airmen who died in football game repelling incident identified.

So...

They rappelled into the field from a chopper? No, from the rafters.

He knew what he was doing.

It just happened.

The Air Force identified the Airmen Monday as Technical Sergeant Eden Patterson, a Tactical Air Control Party instructor.

I just said that.

I can tell you about it now.

This is American Airmen, right? Yes, American Airmen.

Okay, so shortly after I arrived at the band, I was just so amazed by the airmen that were doing incredible things.

There is literally a job for everybody in the military.

I'm an American Airman I will fight for freedom the same color blue we do what we do cause we know it's true from the place we fly up in the sky to the boots on the ground we know why we stand together on freedom's right brothers and sisters you can never divide like family made sure we'll be standing tall wherever It's only that way cause of you and me We stand watching the atmosphere Women warriors are always near Making history, we raise the bar Candlelight, cap bundled, wearing five stars So listen close to what I say It's the UA I'm a sentry and avenger, my nation's sword and shield.

I defend my country with my life.

We'll fight for freedom American Airmen.

And we're back with Lani Quintillo.