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you know , you may not be able to look

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at someone and say that person is a

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future general or that person is , you

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know , future hero of the nation . But

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their acts are their pedigree

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Charles McGee Leadership Award is a

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form of , in college scholarship that

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created specifically to address the

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condition of cadets who have a

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financial hardship during the last two

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years and are not already on

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scholarship . It's a $18,000 per year

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tuition scholarship or it can be

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converted into a $10,000 per year

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housing benefit If not win . But if

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that's a slogan that we've used

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multiple times to describe the program

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because about 40% previously of crude

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exports were on scholarship . Um , and

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there were very few scholarship

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opportunities for rising juniors . Uh ,

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now at this point with the introduction

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of the C . M . L . A , which occurs

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after the sophomore year . Everyone who

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remains in the program at that point ,

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who did not already receive a

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scholarship during their freshman or

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sophomore years will receive a

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scholarship . It needed something it

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needed a name that really indicated

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what we were trying to go after . And

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uh , the timing of when we were sitting

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down and discussing the scholarship

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program was coincidental with the

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untimely passing of Brigadier General

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Charles McGee . It was

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unknown at the time when he was

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selected for the program , but he would

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be as successful as the ultimate was .

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It wasn't , it was only through

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demonstration of his actual skills and

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abilities that the Air Force

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fortunately realized that in this

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person we have a jewel . Uh , somebody

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who is going to contribute greatly to

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the defense of this nation . Kind of

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reminded us of some of the cadets who

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are going through our program , who

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maybe have faced some hardships early

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on . That could have been mitigated

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through some intervention on the part

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of uh , of the Air Force . And we saw

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this as an opportunity to do that .

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Yeah .