Ep 167 | KIDS ONLY Blue Angels Air Show?!

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Walking through the exhibits and learning some stuff that they're they might not have seen it before. You can read it in a textbook, but when you're actually seeing some stuff or you're talking to an actual astronaut, you know, or some test pilots or some blue angels pilots, that's a game changer for a lot of people. You know, that'll give them an opportunity to see something firsthand. Go home and tell, you know, their parents about it.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Welcome to the Voices United in Education Podcast. Each week we showcase the teachers, administrators, and community members who go the extra mile to contribute to the success of every student in Escambia County. You'll meet the real people behind the titles and learn about the amazing resources to support every student's success. We all have a childhood field trip that stands out in our memory. But my next guests are taking it to the next level with a classroom outing that feels a lot more like a VIP pass. They are the District Military Liaison for Escambia County Public Schools and the Pensacola Public Affairs Officer for NAS Pensacola. Today they're going to share why they have added a third day just for kids to the annual Blue Angel Homecoming Show, one that will not only create more core memories, but inspire an entire generation. Elevating enthusiasm for esteem and Pensacola Pride, Monica Willis and Bruce Cummins. Thanks for being here.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Yes, it's always great to, you know, share a little bit about what NAS Pensacola does. You know, this NAS Pensacola has been part of the Scambia County and the panhandle for generations. You know, it's going back 200 years. And to be able to showcase what it is that we do and the connections that we have out in town is something we always welcome. So it's great to be here. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Well, everyone knows, you know, Blue Angels, everyone knows the homecoming show. But Monica, what is Steam Day?

SPEAKER_01 1:59

So Steam Day is a really cool spin for the kids. It always happens the day prior. Well, I say always, last year is the first year, but it's the day before the actual air show. And it's specific to the kids coming out, and it's Escambia County, Santa Rosa. They invite students from the public schools. But it's an amazing event that ties right back to our classrooms and to all of the standards that we're teaching through our science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. That's basically what STEAM is. STEM, STEAM, kind of interchangeable. But last year we had these great gosh, I mean, I don't even know how to say, I guess, stations. They were all so cool and so different. And it took the STEM and the STEAM that we do in the public schools to just a completely different level with the people that came in and NASA being involved in the universities. So it was an amazing experience for the kids and the adults.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

I mean, NASA was involved. I mean, you had me at NASA. That's pretty exciting because we don't get blessed by NASA's presence very often. Yes. And you mentioned stations. Is that something else that's specific to the Steam Day as opposed to just the Blue Angel homecoming day?

SPEAKER_02 3:10

You know, we have a uniqueness at uh NAS Pen School where we run the air show on a Friday, Saturday, by Saturday, Sunday. So the Thursday has historically been an invited guest, family and friends type of thing. The former commanding officer of Naval Air Station Penn School, Captain Terry Village Shishadi. He said, maybe we should look at making sure we extend that invitation out a little bit further. And what better place to do it than the kids? These are individuals that are gonna be inspired. You know, I okay, I'm fifty something years old. I still get inspired when I see the jets. I can't imagine seeing that when I was, you know, 10. All right. That's a game changer for a lot of people. Last year's theme for the air show was celebrating one small step. It was the 55th anniversary of the moon landing. And so we wanted to pay some tribute to that because 25% of all astronauts are Navy or Marine Corps pilots. We had an absolutely phenomenal turnout. And what Monica was talking about there with stations, all of this the exhibits and things that were set up were so interactive that I wish I was in school so I could have gone to all these stations and done it.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

You had like a reverse FOMO, like FOMO for what you missed out on in your childhood.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Yeah, I was sitting there just going, man, I want to go play with that. So you remember the water testing one or something like that where they could make something shoot out of it and all that just by adding some stuff. Very, very interactive, and it had the it gave these kids an opportunity to apply some of the stuff that they were learning in school with real-world professionals, as well as, you know, see an air show that 300,000 people clamored at the gates to get into last year. Right. Right. So this is something that we're looking to make an annual thing. The current commanding officer, Captain Chandra Newman, a heavy emphasis on education. That's one of her pillars. And she's insisted that we do the same thing again. So we're in the process of putting that together. And I can tell you we're probably gonna have some pretty cool stuff out there.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

That's pretty exciting. You said it was well attended last year. How many students?

SPEAKER_02 5:10

About 7,500 students attended that last year. Once again, that was a first-time thing. And so we were extraordinarily happy with the turnout.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

What was the reaction of the pilots and astronauts as those little kids were asking them a thousand questions?

SPEAKER_02 5:25

She got a little bombarded. They were all about it. They loved it. They enjoyed it immensely. They were just, they were super excited. The thank you letters that we got from all of them were just great.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

We did thank you letters. I sent an email, a follow-up email when we came back to every principal, every administrator, everyone in our every department, actually, our transportation, our health, everybody gave feedback and we didn't get any negative. Everything was amazing. And they would send quotes, and there was one of our high schools sent and just said she didn't come. And so when the kids came off the bus coming back in, said the smiles on the kids' faces made it all worth it. Because, you know, on our side from a school district, there's a lot of logistics in the background. There are a lot of things that have to happen to move that many kids and, you know, deal with their lunches, their transportation, you know, do they have medications? So a lot of that on the backside, even though this amazing invitation was going on, it did take a lot of work. So it was great to hear from those administrators that, hey, this was well worth it. We can't wait to do it again.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Oh, yeah. I mean, I want to talk about the behind the scenes in a second, but when I think about, you know, definitely the picture that you're painting for me now. And then I combine that with my experience at the homecoming show, I just describe it as goosebumpy. And because I've been to the beach show, that's my regular show that I love to attend. But you're right, there is something special about the homecoming show. And I, it's like you really have to be there to understand like the pride of this is our hometown and the awe of the precision as they even get into the jets and every single detail. I would describe it as just like the it's close up to the details. And so because of that, I really want you to paint the picture of what it's like on Steam Day compared to that, so that people can kind of envision it.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

So Steam Day, you know, for me looking at it from the outside being in, and I've been involved with about 10 or 12 of the homecoming airshows now. There were 300,000 plus people there last year. Actually, it was about 312, 312,000 people over the two-day span. The day that they got to do that, that's a full air show day. They get to see the entire air show as well as have the opportunity to walk around and look at all these different exhibits. So that right there is special in itself. It's like they literally have the VIP pass. You know, we run our social media and all that, and I get about a million comments about why aren't we allowed to go? Because this is for the kids today. All right. So that's some that's something that we're trying to make a regular thing. And I think it will be. It's it is a lot of coordination, like Miss Monica was saying. But I gotta tell you, our commanding officer, who is a education by profession, you know, first, that's what is her degrees, she's all about it. And she wants this to continue, and we're excited to have that continue. Because I'm just thinking, man, this is beats any field trip I ever went on. I gotta tell you, right? Right, right. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah, exactly. Okay, so is it where we would normally view the jets?

SPEAKER_01 8:33

No. So I think that's kind of different for the kids too, because even if they've been out there, you know, as a kid because they're local and they've seen the practices on the steam day, we're actually on the flight line over by the hangar. So they like, for instance, our staging area is under what they called an apron. I had to ask, of course, what that was. It's a big tent canopy. Yeah, it's like a big tent. But it was so cool because, you know, they would go and they saw these huge aprons and one of them was theirs, but they got to see, you know, the pilots coming in and out. They got to actually feel the roar of that jet being right there on the flight line. And it was just so different. But to walk around and watch the kids and hear their comments as they looked at the pilots coming back and forth. And we were fortunate. A lot of the leadership from NAS came over where the kids were and, you know, kind of walked through and talked to all the kids and introduced themselves. And we had some of our ROTC kids out there, and they actually did some different little drills just quick, fast, in a hurry for them. So it it was a personal touch that a lot of these kids will never get again.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

And so the stations, are they also outside under the tent?

SPEAKER_02 9:38

During the steam day, we're still setting up. So half of that flight line is gonna be a little bit blocked off, simply because we've still got a lot of moving parts that we're putting together for it. But the best way to describe the way the kids get to see this is we've all been to a football game. I mean, you can't live in Florida without going to a football game, right? You got 50 yard line seats in the first row. So that's where all the maneuvers that the Jets are gonna do, they're gonna take place right overhead. And you're literally on the front line for it. So there's uh very unobstructed views of what's going on in the air.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

But it was great. And our superintendent, Mr. Leonard, was out. He was actually standing probably four people from me helping us serve lunches. We had all sorts of people out. I mean, it was we had support from the district that was unbelievable. I mean, everyone came out, they helped. Not only did they come to watch the show, but they actually jumped in and helped and just watching the kids and hearing them comment to me on, hey, this is so great. Man, you guys did an amazing job getting them out here and working with Penskola NAS. And it is, again, our relationship with NAS that makes everything such a success for us.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

The cool factor is off the charts for sure, but how does this support or connect to the in-class curriculum for the kids?

SPEAKER_01 10:58

So a lot of it, as you know, everything you see now is STEM or steam. That's the focus. So I think for a lot of these, because they can see what they're learning in the classroom and relate it to, hey, this is going on right in my backyard. So all the things, the aeronautics, the career days, the they're actually getting to see that come to life because some of them may have never thought, hey, I could be a fighter pilot or I could be a pilot. And when they're out there, that's part of that career readiness as well. But yeah, it ties into everything. The technology that we have in the schools right now and the different labs and the different robotics, it I mean, it almost goes hand in hand.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

So it's like a pattern interrupt.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

It is.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

So because if a kid is like used to clocking out mentally every time he or she goes to school, then this is like, oh, wait, what's going on? Oh, that's what we learned. It's like a little fire is lit under that existing base knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

You totally described my formative years in school. It's like clocked out as minute the minute that happens.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

That's actually what this episode is about. It's confessions with Bruce. You guys didn't tell you until now.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

When we were putting the Steam STEM Day together, when that idea first surfaced and we were looking at that, one of the things that we were trying to do was we know that there's going to be something in the air. But we got a whole nother area which we're going to use a little bit different. And that was to bring in, you know, some of the science, technology, engineering, uh, arts and math, you know, type of things to not only entertain but to inform as well. The new commanding officer, Captain Shauner Newman, she has a a saying that she does, we've got our science, technology, and engineering, but we've not thought about the arts portion of that. And she's like, yeah, we need people who can design, you know, aircraft and fuselages and power flows and all kinds of different things, right? We need the mathematicians to make sure that stuff all works. We need the science to see how it's going to integrate with everything. We need the technology to make it all work, but somebody's got to dream that stuff up and get it on paper so the scientists can actually put it into reality. So to that end, we brought in some universities as well. Phenomenal programs like Auburn. We had Auburn there, pretty much. They brought some displays and things down because in a realistic sense, these are individuals that are going to be attending these universities at some point. Having those sorts of programs out there not only fits in with the Florida's educational requirements for an actual field day, but also came some really cool stuff to look at.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

And you know, that's one thing that we did address, Meredith, coming into it. We had meetings, we do a military council meeting, and so even at that, we questioned because we are bringing kids, we're aware, we're bringing them out of school for a day as we're pushing attendance, and that's you know the big drive. So we do have to make sure from a district standpoint that it's worthwhile and they're learning. So we for every single STEM thing that we had out there, we had them relate it back to the Florida standards and where it would align with what we're doing. So that was great. And that was done. The lady that is the regional NASA lady or was at the time that worked with us, she actually sent me all the standards. So we knew for sure, hey, these kids aren't just going to these booths and doing hands-on stuff. We know exactly where they're tying in. And I think it made our parents, our administrators, our teachers, everyone feel a little bit better. And our superintendent about, hey, we understand these kids are learning while they're there. Yeah, it's super cool. It's above and beyond anything we could do in the schools, but they are still getting those core subjects and those core standards.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Well, motivation and inspiration are really important ingredients in student learning because if you're not motivated, then you're like, why, why am I here? And if you're not inspired, then that education doesn't translate to anything when you graduate. It's like, whoop-de-doo, I checked a box. Right. And so I think it's so interesting and cool that we can think outside the box for this event for the purposes of education, because then kids will go, oh, that astronaut lady, I could be an astronaut lady. Right. Oh, the pilot, I could do that. Oh, the this, the that. And then they're starting to make those connections and become therefore better students with better attendance.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

I saw light bulbs going off. You know, they're just there's a misconception sometimes or a preconceived notion about the military and all that. But then when they were able to see what it was to interact with some, you know, service members that in a these are high school kids that were there last year. Right, middle and high last year.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah. Oh, that's true. Right.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

When they saw that, they were just like, wait a second. You know what it was you could see some light bulbs going off in the middle.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

And a debt-free career path, potentially. So it's like so relevant to them because they might have older siblings or even their parents who have communicated the struggle of carrying heavy debt burdens and trying to live life and pay rent or pay your mortgage.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Not a recruiter, but I do that is a very viable option. Yes. You know, by and large, just being able to show these individuals that whatever they want to do is they can accomplish it. All right. And I think that having, you know, the pilots come up and fist bump a group of high schoolers. Yeah. Having some of your young ensigns that are going through flight school walking through there and talking with these kids, they're four and five years older than some of them. Not that much of an age difference. So those are all things that we took into consideration when we were designing this program. And that's stuff that we're looking at now.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Yeah. So what can you tell me about the 2025 Steam Day?

SPEAKER_02 16:39

When we are in the process of planning it, but there's going to be a lot of similarities in what you've seen already. The station should be there. We're still ironing out exactly who's going to be there, but we're going to have some really fun stuff. And as I said before, every year we've got a theme for it. Now, this is the second year that we're doing the Steam Day, and that's what we're going to call it. We're going to call it Steam Day.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

I want that to get out there. Yeah, and I mean we literally, Meredith, when Bruce says planning, they are planning every month. He and I talk nonstop on the way to work, on the way home. We're always, I mean, we are always on the phone texting. I mean, when we say there's planning, we plan all year for it. And so, yeah, it's going to be it's going to be an amazing time again. It's going to be great.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

And so we're getting the logistics set for not just for Steam Day, but for the air show. And we're working with some, you know, partners right now to ensure that we have, you know, some of the other exhibits and attractions that we've got ready to rock and roll because uh November 6th is coming quick, and we want to make sure that we got a great program for everybody that's going to attend. And I know when we were talking about this before, I know I got back, and I'm not the belly button for all the outreach about the schools, but I got several emails from schools that were like, we want to come. And this is like the day after. Yeah. I was like, wait a second, man, you're a little late on that. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

You're a little behind. But we are going to try to expand. I will work with Mr. Leonard and Mr. Wilson on how we're going to do it. And our directors will work with those administrators. We're going to try to get more kids out there. We're going to try to expand it. It'll be a logistic thing, but we do hope to get more kids out there. And I think after going through it for the first year, we kind of have a better view of it. And the other thing that we did this year that worked out amazing was on October 8th, we took all of the administrators from all of our middle and high schools, met them out there, and actually did a walkthrough with Commander Alfano and Bruce and everyone. Because sometimes it's easy to say, hey, I need you to bring, you know, a hundred kids out and we're going to just go to the base. But when they got out there and they walked through it and they understood exactly where they would be and how it was going to lay out and what it would look like, it did make a difference. That's one thing that hopefully we'll do again this year.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Well, uh, one of the main things that I wanted to stress on that is this, you know, this is going to be something that we want everybody who is in school to attend. I just think it's something it's so unique, and you're not having to travel five hours, you know, to go see it. You know, this is a scambi in Santa Rosa County, it's potentially Baldwin. Right. You know, over the surrounding areas. If they, you know, have the opportunity to get them there, and this is where Ms. Monica just crushed it last year. The groundworks lane, and we're going to expand on that a little bit to make sure that every student in this area is at least exposed to something which I know can be a game changer in a lot of lives.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Let's unpack though that behind the scenes a little bit more because I'm so impressed that you involve the teachers in that process. That's so obvious, but I don't know why that feels like equally brilliant at the same time. Like, of course you'd want to involve the teachers because then it's more of a full success. You know, you're really making a big bang. What else behind the scenes would people be surprised to know about that goes on for the planning of Steam Day?

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

I don't even know where to start. Well, it is a well, tell me about the transportation because that's always a big one for field trips.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

One of the unique things about NAS Pensacola is that it is a military installation and we're hosting a public air show. So there's some requirements that we've got to meet that way. I think we navigated it last year. I think we did really well. Yeah. We were able to work that one through. For us, that's the biggest challenge. So one of the ways that I tend to look at this is we're throwing the party, but you know, and we got the guest list, but we aren't we can't get that there to get everybody to it. So that's where Monica came in, you know, in terms of getting that. For the installation, one of the biggest challenges that we had putting on this Steam Day was making sure that number one, it was gonna align with you know the curriculum that Florida's required. That was one of our biggest concerns. We took what we were able to do and said, this is what we're gonna be able to bring to the table. Miss Monica, as well as her team, ran with that and were able to create something that was, I think, very unique and gotta tell you, just really fun for it. Yeah, yeah. But their logistics, what they had to work through on that was very significant. Yeah, you know, but I think they're doing a great job, and we're gonna have some good returns on that this year as well.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I was gonna say it was a learning experience, and I think this year, like even at the end for follow-up transportation, you know, I communicated with them back and forth, and they had some amazing. We had Jennifer Repine out there. She actually came on site from our transportation department and made sure that everybody got home, everything ran smoothly. But for us, it was a staggering as well. You know, you don't want a thousand kids showing up at once trying to fit through a gate. So we staggered a lot of those kind of logistics that you don't really think about, but as we went through week by week, I mean, talk about a liquid document. We were changing all the time. We were back and forth. I would send it to administrators, I'd get feedback. Bruce and I would get back together, we'd, you know, go back through it and send it out. But we had Navy Federal actually gave us a donation for lunches for high schools. So we We were able to provide Chick-fil-A for all the high schools because every kid bringing a lunch or every kid getting a lunch, there were food trucks there, but a lot of our kids, you know, they can't afford to go to a food truck and we can't take them off campus and say, hey, bring 40 bucks. You're gonna get lunch while you're there. It just doesn't work like that. So that was a lot of the stuff that we kind of had to think through. And then again, you know, if a student needs a medication during the day, we had all of our health staff were there. They came. I mean, the departments on the back for us, they came and they were rock stars. They were there, they were present. Not only did they say, hey, here's what we can do, but they actually showed up and helped us through everything. There, I mean, at the end, our head of Martha Hanna came to me, hugged me, said what a great day it was that we had had no issues, no one got hurt, everything was perfect. I mean, those are the things that when you walk away, you think, not only did this kid who a lot of them reported had never been on base. They had never been on base, they had never seen the blues. I think maybe I take it for granted because my grandfather was military and I was always on the base, but I also live right outside the base, so we're on the boat watching the blues all the time. And I do forget, especially our kids at the north end of the county. We had kids come all the way from Northview, which is up right by Atmore. They were great. They got there, those administrators made it happen.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

So from another logistical standpoint, right there, all the performers are used to flying their show at the same time every day. Like so the practice day has historically been you're in the air at 1313, you know, and back down by 1325. This is the importance that NAS Pensacola places on this program, the Steam Day. They shifted everything to the left to make sure that the children that were attending, you know, the high school age students that were there, high school and middle-aged school students that were there, got to see both the two main acts do their show. That's the Blue Angels.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Because you had the Blues and the Thunderbirds, which is really rare.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

They don't generally wait at the homecoming show.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

So last year.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

But what for 2025, the Thunderbirds are gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Is this an exclusive announcement? No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

When we're ready to do that, we'll we'll put that out via our social media pages. But adjusting the time of day in which they fly is a m I cannot stress how much of a change that is for the pilots, you know, as well as everybody that's involved. You know, we've got ground crew, we've got a bunch of stuff that supports those sorts of evolutions. And for them to shift that just so the students were able to see those two acts as well, that was a that was a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Yeah. And I do think, again, the walkthrough is kind of where as we went through the times, the principals came up and they said, Hey, Monica, you know, we've got to leave at this time. And gosh, they're saying the, you know, the blues are gonna fly at such and such time. And that's what kind of opened our eyes. Without that, you know, all those times, who knows? And we would have realized, holy cow, they're leaving now and the planes are in the air. And so it was perfect. And it took us jumping on a call, meeting, me emailing Commander Alfono and saying, Hey, is there any way? I know this is a huge ask, but like Bruce said, they are so good with us, they work with us. It's a true partnership. And it's throughout the year. It's not just the Steam Day. You know, we have kids on Penskill NAS probably five days a week most of the time.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

I think that picture that you're painting of like the back and forth and the asking is such a good illustration of for one, we don't know what we don't know. And admitting that is huge. And for two, bringing people in to go, tell me what I don't know. Right, right. It really shows the united part of the efforts of trying to make something that's wonderful and also utilitarian for the kids. So I heard you say, Bruce, that this is hopefully going to be the new annual thing that we do, a beautiful feature of our beloved Pensacola. But for this year, what are the exact dates? And if a teacher is listening to this and they're what are we doing high school and middle school this year?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

High school, middle school for sure. We don't know about elementary yet.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Okay, so at the time of this recording, we don't know. Right. But give us the dates and then any other follow-up that you want to shout out so that people can stay engaged.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Well, the NAS Pensacola Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show is gonna be November 7th and 8th this year. That's 2025. So November 6th, that's gonna be a Thursday. Uh, that's gonna be Steam Day. We are looking forward to this. Can't wait for that to go. And we're gonna be reaching out to all of the school districts shortly to start getting this ball rolling again. We've already we're in the process of making sure that all the acts that are gonna be performing at the air show are in there, and we'll announce all of that uh, you know, at a later date, as well as some of the other exhibits, you know. Along with all the stuff that's going on in the air, we've got static displays on the ground. Some of the aircraft that you might not see ordinarily could be, you know, on the ground or maybe even flying. I don't know. We're gonna look around and see. But keep your eyes peeled. The Naval Air Station Pensacola social media pages for mostly Facebook, and that's at NASP. Make sure you check that because we'll have periodic announcements coming up. The Steam Day is the day before the air show. So that's gonna be November 6, 2025. And we're inviting anybody who's got the transportation to get here from a school perspective to do that. The flight line is only going to be open to uniform Department of Defense identification card holders as well as our invited guests, and those are gonna be the school districts. So instead of the 150,000 people each day or more, it's just gonna be the students and some active duty service members. And hopefully that interaction is gonna continue into the future and give these individuals an opportunity to see some absolutely outstanding stuff, but also to interact with service members who are doing it right now.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Right. And Meredith, I know this has absolutely nothing to do logistically. However, one thing I did want to mention that was one of our takeaways last year, we had a student at Ransom Middle that was in a wheelchair, came up with his nurse and couldn't see. You know, basically he he couldn't see over the stuff. As they walked around, one of the enlisted men came up to him, spoke with the principal, spoke with the nurse, and was able, took it upon himself to get this kid to the very front so he could see. That student went home and the feedback that principal got and the emails that we got, it was amazing. And those are the things that, you know, people may not see that make a huge difference to that one child. And so, you know, that's kind of what we're aiming at. If we can get a an experience for a kid like that, that's something that we won't have anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much, both of you, for coming and sharing about this. I am so excited and cheering everyone on.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Yeah, well, you'll have to come out with this. We'll let you come be a chaperon with this Meredith.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

I'm totally down. I'm totally down.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Thank you so much for having us and giving us an opportunity to talk about what I know is a phenomenal project.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

It is. It's phenomenal for us. We really appreciate the opportunity. We love that the base does include us, and we're gonna do everything in our power to get as many kids as we can there logistically and have a wonderful day again.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

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