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Air Force vice chief of staff discusses education, innovation
Shannon Collins high school, he joined the Air Force you on the path to achieve anything ter technique and language, the
and began to understand the value you want to achieve.” shorthand and not using full words
DoD News, Defense Media Activity of education. and sentences -- when you get into
Innovation the professional environment, you
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air “Once I got into the Air Force, I The general said the Air Force have to know how to communicate,”
Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Lar- started to mature and see how im- was born in innovation, and during he said. “You have to know how to
ry O. Spencer and Jack Buckley, the portant education and technology his career he’s seen the Air Force speak and know how to write a re-
senior vice president of research was and how crucial it was to our evolve from using a low-flying F-4 sume. You have to be able to write
for the College Board, spoke about warfighting capability,” he said. “I Phantom to capture a single image professional letters.”
innovation and education during started to take any class I could get to today’s remotely piloted aircraft
the Military Child Education Co- my hands on.” recording and streaming real-time Spencer said he has also found
alition’s 17th National Training video. He also mentioned the Air that some military leaders have
Seminar July 31. He said he recently went back to Force’s fifth-generation fighters and a tendency to just send emails to
his old neighborhood, and many of how the Air Force runs satellites their people.
Spencer, who was a military child his friends are either in jail or no that assist the GPS technology peo-
himself, spoke on the importance of longer living. He said he may have ple use in their cars. “In my experience, I don’t care
education, especially for those who never left the neighborhood had it Spencer acknowledged a nega- how old you are or what your back-
may be growing up in underprivi- not been for the Air Force and for tive side of innovation; while chil- ground is, nothing substitutes as a
leged communities. his education. dren are growing up more savvy leader for getting in front of your
in computing, social media and people and talking to them face to
Education ‘a big equalizer’ “I’m not any smarter than they technology, they sometimes lack face, letting them see your body
“I grew up here in southeast are, but I got my education, and I in personal social skills and in pro- language and vice versa and mak-
D.C. My father was in the Army, got to learn, and I got to travel,” he fessional development. He said the ing sure they know exactly where
and my mother hadn’t graduated said. “Education is a big equalizer. abbreviated talking on digital plat- you’re coming from and you know
high school,” the general said. “I It doesn’t matter where you come forms has hurt their ability in pro- exactly where they’re coming from,”
was the oldest of six children, and from. It doesn’t matter what advan- fessional communications. he said.
I didn’t understand the impor- tages or disadvantages you have. If “Some of the Facebook and Twit-
tance of education.” you can get your hands on educa- New SATs
He said he was focused on foot- tion, it is the equalizer that can put Buckley, a former Navy nuclear
ball and girls, but after graduating
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