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Howdy JBSA

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this is Brigadier General Driggers,
the commander JBSA, the five

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second Air base wing, once again here
with you for an episode of Ask Away JBSA.

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And I'm Jason Wilkinson
from the five second Public Affairs.

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So our first question today
is from a single member of our community

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and he's looking for things to do.

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He was asking you about the boss program
and this a boss program for for airmen

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so that he could get out and find things
to do and meet people and stuff like that.

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Yeah, that's a super question
and and you know the army has long

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had the better opportunity
for single single soldiers program,

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which, you know, I'm an Army brat,
so I've, I know a lot

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about I've heard a lot about that program
growing up.

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And so what we've we've taken that program
and we've tried to grow it

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and it's now better opportunities
for single service members.

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And so the program is alive
and well here at GSA.

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And if you go to the Facebook page
and search in GSA Boss,

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you'll be able to find some access
to the resources, cooking classes and

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trips and

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all kinds of great things
for our single service members.

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And if you go to GSA today
and go to the website, you'll be able

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to find out other opportunities
for for AMW, our activities

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and all kinds of all kinds of things,
we provide our service members.

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Awesome. Thank you so much, sir.

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So our next question is about e-vehicles
and charging stations and kind of

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what kind of plans we have, if any, for
for charging stations here on ABC.

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Sure.

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So, so right now we are
the GSA is a pilot site

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for EV vehicles on the government side
on the government fleet.

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Unfortunately, though,
we have charging stations,

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they're not going to be available
to the public

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because it's for the government
use on some of the housing areas across

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our installation are considering
putting in some charging stations.

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They're in various housing areas

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and APHIS has been taking a look
at the option of doing that.

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Obviously that's a financial decision

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that if is has to make
and it's an economic decision.

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And you know, in some areas of the country

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there's going to be

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a higher proportion of e-vehicles and
it may make more financial sense for them.

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In Texas,
that might not be necessarily the case.

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And so they'll continue to evaluate
and see when the time is right.

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That makes sense.

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Thank you so much, sir.

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And then our final question today
is, is about retention and retention.

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That's been a big buzz word
throughout the military community.

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And so just kind of what GSA
is doing to help lend to that.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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It's it's a huge it's a huge challenge

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to work through to think through how best
we encourage our service members to stay.

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My wife and I have long
said that while we may

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recruit our service members,
we retain families.

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And so I focus on the family

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and making sure the family is taken
care of is very important to us.

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She has partnered as part of the Air
Force's Fire and Thrive program,

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and so we have a five and Thrive
GSA program that's alive and well here.

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It's focused on advocacy
on the five main things that our families

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have to consider
whenever they move to a new location.

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And it's,
you know, it's not just families.

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Even single service members

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have to consider many of these things,
if not if not all.

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And that is where are they going to live,
where are they going to get health care

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and where if they have children,
where their children

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are going to get child care,
if they're not school age?

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And where or where are they going to go
get schools?

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And for the married folks, where is the
spouse going to find employment?

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And so the five is our program
is designed to help the community

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get access to those resources
and find out where they're at.

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And so if you take a look at the link

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below, you'll find that there's a link
to some of the fire and Thrive resources.

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We also have a very robust partnership
that we have with the local community.

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And so getting in touch

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with our four Support Squadron
and asking some of these questions

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about how we can get access to
these resources is a great way

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to let the community know that we do care
and we want to be able

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to take care of them.

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And you know, you're not going to get
that outside of the military context.

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And so that's why we really think
that that's a great step in helping folks

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remember that they're helping folks know
that we care for them and that we value

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everybody's service of the nation,
whether their were in our nation's cloth,

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whether they're civilians,

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whether they're contractors,
or whether their family members.

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Awesome. Thank you so much.

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Thank you for taking time to talk with us
today.

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Absolutely.
Thank you much. Take care. JVC.