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Article: Meeting the challenge--the airmen of the world's greatest Air Force.(Transcript)
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- Air Force Speeches
- Article date:
- August 21, 2003
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Thank you Chief Parente (President, Air Force Sergeant's Association International) for that gracious introduction.
General (Donald) Cook (Commander, Air Education and Training Command), Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Murray and our former Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force, Command Chiefs, First Sergeants, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I'm honored and humbled to be here tonight to accept this award and to address this audience of devoted airmen and their families. The airmen I joined on the stage tonight--along with the more than 700,000 active, guard, reserve and civilian airmen who serve so selflessly every day--are the sole reason I ...