JoAnne Bass

Like just anyway.

Anyway, I think we have back to, you know, your question.

I think we have more of an issue of helping America realize how they might support their military.

yeah why are we getting so deep so early in the morning so i would say that my because i i said it a few minutes ago my because is because i want a free and prosperous nation for my two girls and and your children and our great-grandchildren that is why

But I know that the only way for us to have, you know, the freedom of democracy, it's going to take all of us.

So the military piece is one component, having a strong military.

But we have got to, as a nation, rally around this thing called democracy, value what we all bring to the fight.

Yeah.

Industry has to start building stuff.

Schools have to start teaching things.

Parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles have to start teaching character and citizenship.

So that is, again, I'm still trying to figure myself out.

But because and why I do the things that I do is because I want years from now to be able to

you know, rest well and know that our kiddos have it and their kiddos have it.

And we're going to continue being a great nation.

That is the question of the century.

And to be honest, I don't know.

That is not a question just for the military.

I think all of workforce in America and, quite frankly, workforce across the globe is really thinking deeply about how do we tap into the full potential of this next generation.

When I served as the chief master in the Air Force, one of the things I was very much focused on was the people aspect, the people behind the warfighting mission that we have.