JoAnne Bass

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.

trying to figure myself out.

But but what 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 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.

And I knew for certain that the only way we were going to tap into this next generation and the generations that follow after that is we can't have old, antiquated people policies that I came into 30 years ago.

Mm-hmm.

Our workforce looks different today than it did 30 years ago.

The military looks different today than it did 30 years ago.

30 years ago, the workforce was primarily the man coming to work and the woman staying home.

And that is what things look like.