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Agile combat employment . The idea of

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that is to be able to recover ,

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reload , refuel and launch an aircraft

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all while defending it with a small

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footprint . So what the Ace training

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does is it allows airmen to not just be

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part of their A FSC but to become multi

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capable airmen and actually train in a

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different A FSC getting individuals out

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of their comfort zone and into

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different shops to learn jobs that that

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will better support that mission to be

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a multi capable airman . Uh That gives

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me the opportunity to step outside of

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my comfort zone , which is amo and move

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in to see what other people on the base

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are doing . So the biggest challenge I

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would say is being able to balance your

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time in order to add on these

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additional requirements for training .

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It's not just a one time thing where I

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go up to weapons , I learn what they do .

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And then later on down the road , I use

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that we have to maintain qualifications .

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When , when we typically think of

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leaders , we think of the leaders

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standing out front , making all the

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decisions they're doing the training .

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But with Ace , you step into these

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different scenarios where you have

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airmen leading and showing you and

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teaching you what they know and they

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are experts in their field . So it , it

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gives me the opportunity to step back

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and listen to them and to learn from

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them . Ace is beneficial to the air

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force because as you know , we have

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limited manning , we have limited

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resources and so we need to be able to

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get out and , and be lean . We need to

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be light and we need to be agile .

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Being a multi capable airman makes you

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better equipped to serve . And

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ultimately , that's , that's why we are

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all here and with , with things

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changing in the world , you never

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really know what's going to happen next ,

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but we always have to be prepared for

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it being lean light and agile . That's

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at this point , the name of the game

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and the best way to do that is to be

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able to know and do and perform

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multiple tasks outside of your comfort

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zone and what you've typically learned .