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This year was , it was a big year . It

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was a big year really in the Air Force .

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It's just grown from our inaugural

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event last year in Pittsburgh . And

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then this year , we're really excited .

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We're actually doing live streaming

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this year . We estimate we have 400

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people total if you count our virtual

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and our our in person attendees um to

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then go back to their units and , and ,

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and start to talk about Arcana and

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start to educate their airmen on how

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they can get more involved . We have

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more guard this year than we had last

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year . So spreading the word and

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letting us kind of cross educate like

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what what those differences are , but

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then still coming together for , for

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how we can , we can work together and

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improve . We've had huge advancements ,

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especially in loe one , which is child

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care loe nine exceptional family member

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program as far as getting initiatives

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pushed up to our very senior leaders

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and actually starting our coordinations

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doing uh congressional liaisons . One

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thing that I need you all to understand

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is that in less than two years time , a

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Athena was a conversation in a

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classroom full of career enlisted

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aviators . And today a Athena is a

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conversation on Capitol Hill this

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morning on Capitol Hill . Lieutenant

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General Healy testify on two lines of

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effort that Ar Athena is continuing to

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break barriers on the first line of

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effort being childcare . The second

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being exceptional family members ,

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Arcana will continue to break barriers

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throughout the Air Force Reserve

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Command and the Air National Park .