Motivation wanes. You will not always be motivated. But the discipline is what keeps you going after it. On the days you don't want to train, you need to do it anyway. And don't quit. Welcome back to Airman Vision. In today's video, we interview Peaches, who is a combat controller in the United States Air Force. And he's also a co-host of the podcast, One's Ready. So be sure to go over there and check that out. And also, if you haven't, go on over to airmanvision.com and look at our other information to help you prepare for joining the Air Force and making the best decision for yourself. That includes a BMT prep guide, a BMT fitness prep guide, an Air Force prep course, and tons of other information. But with that being said, let's jump right into the interview. What is the name of your job? And it's AFSC. So my job is a United States Air Force combat controller. And the Air Force specialty code is a 1Z2X1. Why did you join the Air Force? Like you personally? So I do have military in my family. My grandfather was Navy, my uncle was Marines, my cousin was Marine, and then I joined. And that was never actually the intent, especially early on, because I did junior ROTC for about three days. And I said, this is not for me. I'm not having it. I don't like my peers yelling at me and treating me like dirt. So screw that. But I wanted to do something that was fun, difficult, and got my adrenaline going, because my entire life I've been an adrenaline junkie. And I went to the Army and the Navy as well. But at the time, some of their programs were different. You had to be in the Navy or the Army for a certain amount of time before you could try out for Navy SEALs or Green Berets. And you weren't guaranteed to go to dive school or freefall school or anything like that. The Air Force said, hey, we've got para rescue. And I know that's different than what I am now. So I joined for para rescue, because immediately I didn't have to join the Air Force and do a certain amount of time before I could become a PJ. It was guaranteed I got diet school, freefall, airborne, all these schools. I got the shoot, move and communicate, ride dirt bikes, so that whole deal really get the adrenaline going. So I picked that. Why I became a combat controller, though, is that while I was at selection, I was surrounded by para rescue candidates, combat control candidates, and the respective instructors as well. So we had some of the combat control instructors give us a brief on what they actually do in terms of airfields, radios, calling in airstrikes. And then they said, hey, this is your one opportunity before you continue on during selection and into the pipeline, that if you want to swap from being a PJ to a CCT or a CCT to a PJ, now's your opportunity. And there was a handful of us that said, we'll go be CCT. We weren't afforded that opportunity at the recruiting office. Information was lacking back then. When you think of the Air Force Special Operations, PJs get a lot of the spotlight there. I love it because, you know, I've got a lot of great friends that are PJs and, you know, Aaron on the One Dirty Podcast with us.  That's what PJs do. They go in on people's worst days and they are there to get them out. Whereas that is not us. Now maybe we facilitate some of that, but our job is really to end people's lives. How long have you been in the Air Force or how long did you serve? I decided to continue to do the job throughout the years, as long as I was having fun. Here I am starting my 25th year. So, and I'm still having fun. It's been fantastic. So when you initially joined, you didn't have the idea of I'm just doing my first contract and get it out or I'm doing 20 plus years. You were just going to take it one contract at a time. You haven't committed yet to a retirement date yet, right? No, I have not committed to a retirement date yet.  We've kind of projected, but I have not pushed the button to retire yet. I came in and said, okay, well, if I do 10 years, that's not too much invested to where if I did get out, I'm sure it feels like out of high school. Yeah, I joined at 17 right out of high school. You know, had to get my parents permission to join and all that kind of good stuff. Yeah, 10 years. You're not even you're not even 30 yet. Exactly. So I was like, you know, if I do 10 years, great, whatever. I'm still in my 20s, you know, came in for six years. I had a signing motors for $18,000 at the time. It's much, much more now. It's a lot more now. When you went to a recruiter and were like, I'm going to join the Air Force. And you came up with the idea of what jobs you wanted to do. Were you all in on being a PJ at the time? Or were you kind of like, Hey, I'm interested in all of these jobs. PJs at the top of that list. You know, I wanted to not put all my eggs in one bag of skits. Navy was going to be a seal for Army was going to be Rangers and Green Beret. And then for Air Force is going to be para rescue because that's all I knew. Once I found out all the, all the nitnoy details of everything, as much as I could off of a trifle pamphlet, you know, asking people that happened to be in the military, para rescue became my number one, Navy Seals came my number two, and then the Army was, was number three. But again, once I got to, to Indock and selection, and I found out about comic troll and everything that they did, that then became my number one. And then PJ became number two. You weren't interested in any like normal job. Cause you said earlier, you're an adrenaline junkie. Your idea was, I want something that is as high speed as the military is going to offer me. You weren't interested in any other career paths at that point. I wasn't. And, and I didn't go in with a plan B or anything like that. Maybe that was age, right? So I mean, 17, 18 year old going through all that stuff. So that could have been age. You're young enough to be able to afford to not have a plan B. So it's, it's not even a bad thing, honestly. But I didn't have a plan B, which is fine. We kind of tell people that now. If you're planning, if you have a plan B, that means there's a slight doubt in your mind at some of those darkest points, some of those points that are extremely difficult to where you are starved of oxygen. You, your heart is pounding at 200 beats a minute kind of thing. And we're asking for more and more from you. That plan B doubt can grow rapidly. And then all of a sudden you're ringing the bell and you're being sent home or not sent home, but sent to the barracks, packed your stuff. Now you're getting retrained. It's walking a tightrope. You know, I'm not saying that people that have had plan Bs don't make it because that's not true, but you're running a risk and I believe in the back door open in case you want to run out. And so when, because Aaron, when I just did his interview for PJ, he mentioned there are days, weeks, months where you're like, I can't do another pushup. I can't run another step. And then they're like, we're going back out.  You know, I can't go, I can't do one more. Well, that's okay. Cause I got this, you know?  But that all comes down to it. Each individual person is going to be completely different on how they handle those situations. And there's another way that we do that. And we've talked about it on our podcast. So what we'll do sometimes not all, not all the time, but we will do this often is the best way to say it is, we'll just go out for what is expected to be a four mile run. You know, we, there are loops around the training facilities and routes and stuff like that, that you kind of know, okay, this is a three-miler, four-mile or six-miler and so on. But what we'll do is we'll go out. Okay. The plan is to go out for a four-mile run and then, you know, you usually start right there at the compound and then you end at the compound to kind of play with people's minds a bit or, you know, see if you're as tough as you think you are. We'll come right by the compound like we're ending and we'll either just continue running or we will say, you know, we say quick time means that you're going from running to walking. So we'll go quick time and then everybody will start walking and then about five seconds later, double time and it will start the run and do it all over again. You're getting people's hopes up and then you're like, I don't want to crush it. And then you see if they can withstand that. Yep, exactly.  Finally. And then, oh, we're going again. Get your mind right. If they ever had any doubt, boom, they're quitting. Man, it is devastating. You will lose a lot of people that way. You have to do that because some of your guys' missions you might have. Right. You know, hey, we're going home. Just kidding. We're going to be back at work. We can't go home now. We're stuck for another 12 hours and we have to perform. And there are times. I mean, think about the folks that were on H-CHIA doing that operation. And there's been many more. Like there's been operations where we think we're getting out and then all of a sudden we get re-rolled to another target or an incident happens and now we got to go on a recovery or something like that so that they can always get extended. But think about the folks operating in H-CHIA during the, the evacuation. No really in insight. And the mission never stopped. It was constant. So they got sleep where they could. All of a sudden people are, are launching babies over Constantina wire. They're, they're providing medical treatment. People that are not medics or not medically trained are providing medical treatment. People are, are handing over their kids just like take them and then they disappear. Now, all of a sudden you've got these kids. I mean, and I'm not talking about just ground operators. I'm talking about aircrew members as well that are just all of a sudden they, they now own essentially these kids and they've got to get them out. I mean, just extreme situations that we put folks in with no insight. And we don't need them to have doubts. We don't need them to go, Oh my God, I'm tired. I'd need to, you know, it's getting rough. I need to quit. And that's essentially what that, that run kind of test does is it tests their metal to see what they're actually made of when they are smoked. They are tired and they just want to stop. Can you keep going where and how long was your tech school? So your, your tech school is going to be a little bit different than most Air Force jobs because the special operations pipeline involves multiple different stops and trainings. So if you just walk us through what is that, like what to expect as a whole, what are the different parts, how long about overall, how long is it? Okay. So I'll tell you what it is now, not what I went through because my pipeline when I went through is definitely different than it is now. And this depends on a lot of different variables, but it's usually about two and a half years from, from entry to earning your berets about two and a half years. That includes, you know, your, your time at basic training. And then from basic training, you're going to go what's called special warfare candidate course. That's an eight week course of just kind of getting you ready. It's a preparatory kind of course. It's, it's not easy, but it's, you are definitely training your butt off, getting your mind right in a preparation for assessment and selection, which is about a month long. It changes. And they also try and keep some kind of cloak of mysteriousness about it. So I don't want to compromise that, but that's about a month. Then from there, you're going to go to pre dive, which is right around four or five weeks long. And I, and don't please don't quote me on these, these times because sometimes, sometimes I get them right, right. Sometimes I get them wrong just off top of head. Well, it can depend too, because of like certain holidays or things that are going on. And even each person is going to have a different experience because you guys deal with injuries or other aspects. Even some of those times you might have, like people might have like family emergencies. Oh yeah. And so you have like short breaks or yeah, you get delayed. So yeah, in general, when you're saying, you know, five weeks, I could be five weeks. Yeah, it could be five weeks. It could be a little bit longer, but you know, you always add a plus minus to that. Yeah. You do your prior pre dive, which is the dive school that's going to help you or the school that's going to help you prepare for combat dive school. So then you're going to go to combat dive school. And then after that, um, it's kind of a mix of different things on based off of school availability and dates, because we don't want students hanging around if they don't have to. So if we can get them in courses, then we will sometimes the dates just don't line up where, you know, you end on a Friday and then you travel to your next school and start on a Monday. Sometimes it does, but it, you know, not owning all of the schools because, you know, we go to airborne, which is owned by the army, we go to free fall, which is also owned by the army. We go to seer, which is owned by the air force. You know, we, we provide for the PJs, we provide in-house medical training called MP3 for CCT. We do our air travel control school at combat control school. That's kind of where we diverge and then later on we'll converge again. So we'll do all that. After we finish all that, that is when we get our beret. After that, depending on for the, for the CCT and the special reconnaissance, they will go to advanced skills training at special tactics training squadron at Herbert field for additional full mission profile and upgrade training to get them from a three level, which is your graduation level, a skill level to a five level. That is not 100% in set in stone because injuries, school dates, holidays, mainly injuries again. Like we're very physical. So, and some of the things that we do is inherently dangerous. So as safe as you try and be, and you try and mitigate all the risks you can, sometimes things just happen. Are people awarded the opportunities if they fail certain sections to redo those sections at all? Is that a thing or are they completely done with the course if they fail any section? It depends on what the course is. But say, for example, say I was at pre-dive and I failed a run, like I didn't meet the run standards or something like that or the swim standards. I would have an opportunity to retest that. Now, if I didn't pass that retest and it was just for lack of performance, then I'm probably gone or I'll probably recycle. But if it's due to an injury, then I'll get a chance to go heal. If it's an injury that you're so young in the pipeline and it's going to be six to eight months for you to heal, a lot of times it's, hey, you need to go do a different job and then come back. And that's unfortunate, but I mean, we just can't have students hang around. You're better suited, you're better suited recovering, learning another job and doing that job throughout that, you know, six, eight months or more recovery process than you are just literally sitting doing nothing because you can't continue the actual training for that job. You're providing more value for the Air Force through that than if you were to just sit in a dorm trying to recover. So it might be disheartening, but at the same time like the Air Force also needs to look out for themselves and get their money's worth. Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, it's still needs of the Air Force and the Air Force needs you as a special operations dude or do that, but we also need other jobs too. And you're right.  Those take a long time to heal and you run the risk of breaking a leg. So, you know, and sometimes legs do break. So then there's even more of a heal process. So it takes time and it's definitely a lot of variables. So you had said after that about that two and a half year mark is when you earn your beret. Is that when you go to the advanced school like training? Yep.  Now you're actually going to do real, real training on this job.  Here's what's great about our community. And, you know, maybe some people find it great. Some people don't.   Okay, we know that you have at least a baseline or a fundamental, you know, understanding of what you do. But you have to earn it. Even me, when I showed up to the unit I'm at now, or even the last couple of units, I still had to prove myself. And you were always proving yourself. You can never rest on your laurels. You have to continue to improve. You have to continue to keep getting after it. You have never made it. How was your tech school? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not? What aspects did you like about your tech school? What did you not care for? I think when I look back, I really enjoyed it. And there were some, there were some amazing times, even while I was in it.  Like it is very, very difficult.  But at that point, you're just trying to survive. You're not even, you know, you're not even focused on like, trying to be like, I'm trying to be super proficient at this. You're like, I'm literally just trying to make it till tomorrow. I'm just trying to survive. It's exactly right. I'm just treading water and I'm, and I'm barely, you know, barely there.   Like I went, there were a couple guys in my class that, you know, they were water polo players. So in the pool, they were never really challenged to the level that me and some of the other folks were. When our bad days were in the pool or something like that, they were just fine. So the instructors had to make it, it's your turn to have a day now. It's not like they're, they're purposely picking on that person, but it's like every, we're trying to test what everybody is made out of. It doesn't matter how good you are, everybody has a bad day.  Not because I want to quit, but because maybe I'm just not good enough. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this job. Maybe I'm not made of what I need to be made out of to do this job. It makes it all better because of the folks that you're, you know, right next to on either side of you that are just getting after it. They're in the same boat you are.  Like you're in goal is to finish the pipeline, get the brain, get the team and start doing work. That is the goal. So when you're surrounded by people that want that same thing as you do, it's a motivator regardless of the situation. Sounds like they're trying to exploit your weaknesses to see if that makes you give up or if it makes you become resilient to be the type of person that says I'm going to overcome this weakness. Yeah. And it's a, it's a stress inoculation is what it is. So they are all that, all that kind of noise that is that, you know, for lack of a better word, like that's what I'm referring to as, you know, the pain and the, I just need to breathe. I just need to stop this, all that noise. We're just trying to raise the noise level so that all this just doesn't bother you anymore.  I'm not sweating it. I can just rise above it and it's all good. And if I really need to, you know, jump up to where it's like, okay, it's game time, that's fine. I can do that. And I'm still able to have a certain level of calmness and ability to think through whatever's going on. With CCT, I'm assuming that it is very selective of what bases that they put you guys at. So what bases can a combat controller be stationed at? Your operational units are, you know, Joint Base Lewis McCord up in Washington, Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico, Hurlbert Field in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Pope Army Airfield in North Carolina. Overseas is RAF or Royal Air Force Milton Hall in the United Kingdom. And then you have Kenina Air Base in Japan, your main bases that you could go to. You have other ones where you could go to Lackland, you know, to be an instructor. You could go to North Carolina as well to be an instructor. You can go to Panama City, Florida to be the dive school instructor. You could go to Yuma, Arizona as a freefall instructor. You can go to any of those places to go be instructors. And then you have, like for example, there's two CCT at Nellis Air Force Base only supporting the weapons school. And the other reason there's two is because I happen to be here. Usually I would not be here. It would be somebody else. It's just I was hired for this job. So usually there's only one, maybe two at Nellis. So it's very few. So I know this is going to be a difficult question because there's probably not, you know, one single answer for this, just like every question that you can be asked about an Air Force career, there's really no cookie cutter answer for everything. So how many hours on average would you say that you work in your career field? What does a typical day look like once you get to your first duty station? It can vary based on what training is being done that day or that week.  If it is normal just, hey, we're in the team room, we're doing local training, it's nothing crazy. It's not, it's not jumping or diving where we got to travel. You're still looking at a seven to seven to four, seven to five, two hours of that is dedicated workout time from seven to nine. You are dedicated to working out, but we travel a decent amount and we travel for training, you know, we were going to shooting schools or maybe if we're in joint base Lewis McCord where it's amazing evergreens and stuff like that everywhere, but we need desert or we need ocean water. Now granted, we've got ocean water there, but if we need desert, we're not going to find it around there. We've got to travel to it. So maybe we're on the road for a week or two weeks, or maybe we're at Canaan Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico that has no water around it. So we've got to go to the Gulf or we've got to go to the Pacific to go do water training, you know, because that is a currency requirement for us. So that's days on the road. Now, what we try and do, and it doesn't always work out, but what we try and do is when you are gone for, you know, two weeks, we do try and give you some of those days back that you were gone. So after we get back from the trip, we reconstitute, clean all the gear up, put everything away, make sure everybody's good to go, travel, travel vouchers filed, and then we will release people and go, okay, go spend time at home, go, go do whatever you got to do, try and recoup some of that time back and then show up whatever day and then we're getting after it. So because we're gone so much on training, because we're gone so much on deployments, we do try and go, okay, we don't have anything planned today, guys, in terms of training, just go home, spend, spend time or run whatever errands you got to do that you weren't able to do for the last month because you've been on the road, that kind of stuff. So it sounds like you guys go in bursts of training cycles of different things that you're working on. And during those, those short training cycles, you're not going to have a normal nine to five day potentially. And so you're going to be putting in a lot of hours on those. So then you're back at home station, depending on what you're also training for at the home station, but you're going to have a more stable work environment in that aspect. But because you guys are doing so many different training missions, it's kind of hard to dictate exactly what your work schedule is like because it's not like there's an actual normal schedule. Yeah, and we do try and provide some kind of predictability, but you know, we're still lining up against the Air Force Special Operations force generation cycle. So, you know, we've got to adhere to that. And so it does provide some predictability, like we know when we're going to be deployed, as long as no other contingency operations pop up because we do have an alert cycle that we have to.  So we kind of already hit this a little bit in that last question, but what do you do in your job specifically? What is combat control? Like what is your guys' key role that you do? You kind of mentioned it before, like PJ, save people, your job is to take people out. What all does that entail? And then when you are in your training cycles kind of you had mentioned doing water or desert, but what like specifically are you guys training on in those environments? Combat controllers focus on airfield stuff. Now that could be doing any kind of landing zone on a dry lake bed to a highway in Europe or in the States. It could be taking over an airfield like we did, you know, during Baghdad. We took over Baghdad airport. So anything involving an airfield we can do remotely. We are not at the level of, you know, an air traffic controller where they can control just hundreds of aircraft in the air. We are, you know, very few. I mean, maybe double digit aircraft, but even then that's getting a little bit heavy. We will do drop zones. We will do forward air refueling and rearming points. We will call in close air support because we have the joint terminal attack controller qualification. Special tactics which falls under Air Force Special Operations Command focuses on three different areas. Personnel recovery, global access and persistent strike. So combat control has a play in every single one of those. Whether it is personnel recovery, we're not just going to send a para-escue team out there on their own to go recover somebody. It will be heavy with para-escue, but we are going to have a CCT with them to help with that communications. What if we need an HLZ, a Hilo landing zone? What if we need an airfield and we got to get people out? What if we need to call in airstrikes? There are CCTs with personnel recovery teams. Global access, that's where the airfields come in. I already brought up the hurricane disaster relief and that kind of stuff, but it could be that in a contingency operation downrange, the distance that helicopters have to travel could just be too far to reach the target area or the intended objective and they need some kind of middle stopping point to rearm, refuel. Maybe we drop off a special operations surgical team there as well. The assault force goes and does the hit, but then they still have to recover at the airfield, so we do a lot of stuff there and then go home. Precision strike, that's where the joint terminal attack controller qualification comes in, which is where us and the tactical air control party are call in airstrikes. We don't usually operate unilateral in a JTAC capacity. It is with Army Green Beret or ODA teams, Navy SEAL teams, or even some of our coalition partners that are overseas will attach to them as their JTAC and provide that close air support. So when you guys are preparing for those missions, when you're at home station, you said you go to the desert, you go to the ocean, you go into the woods or the mountains. What are you doing in the ocean? What are you doing in the desert? What are you doing in the mountains? Are you just going on campaign trips and boating trips? Oh man, I'd love if we were just going to go out fishing or camp and stuff like that, but unfortunately it's not quite like that, but we still don't know how to have fun out there. So there are a bunch of CFETP and I think it stands for Career Field Education Training Plan items. Every career field within the Air Force has certain training items that they have to accomplish so that they can become a three level, a five level, a seven level, and so on, which those different levels enable you to do your job to a certain level unsupervised. Within those we also have currency requirements. So I have to have a fast rope done, you know, every 120 days, for example. I don't know if that's the exact amount, but just using that example, if I don't accomplish a fast rope in 120 days and it's 130 days, then I have to have somebody who is current over the shoulder me and watch what I'm doing just to make sure. So that's just one qualification. We have a whole bunch of them that are involved with jumping, diving, fast roping, riding dirt bikes, riding, driving some of the other off-road tactical vehicles, doing the JTAC stuff. So there's a lot of different things that we are trying to not only upgrade, but also remain current in so that if we do get that call on an alert, we can blow out and go do whatever we've got to do. One of the things that we've got to do is called a RAM-B, which is a rigged alternate method boat.  And so that if we are out in the Gulf or the Pacific and there are, you know, a capsized vessel or somebody needs to be rescued or somebody ejected from plane, that we are flying over in that C-130 or C-17, we can open the ramp, throw that boat out, and it'll float to the ground, then we will jump out after it, float with it under parachute, get in the water, then derig it and inflate it in the water, mount the engine, and get going. So when you guys are going out to the water, that's what you're practicing that whole maneuver, that whole situation where you're like, you don't want to have to try to figure it out while you're in a situation uprange, you're thinking, no, we're going to run through this whole scenario right now. So that's what you guys are going and doing, it's like a real life scenario, but you're just trying to put yourself through that test. That's right. And it's also, you know, when you think you're doing this, we'll just say with five guys, right, maybe one person is in charge, like everybody's getting a chance to go through it, you know, and be part of the team, but only one person gets a chance to run the event and be the team leader for the event. So guess how many more times you got to do it? You got to do it four more times. Now, maybe you're not doing it four more times that day, but you're going to do it four more times that trip so that everybody gets a go at it and each scenario or each event is likely going to have a different variable to it, you know, a different situation that they're going after, or it could even be a different location. Like maybe one day you're doing it on the lake, like the first go is on a lake where it's a little calm, you know, you're not dealing with courage, you're not dealing with waves or swells or anything like that. But then the second day, you're going to go out and do it in the Pacific where it's choppy and saltwater and, you know, like so different conditions create different problems. That's pretty awesome, actually. Yeah, I love it. It's amazing. The reason why it sounds like it's up your alley for adrenaline junkie, right? The reason why I brought up that is because I love doing those and it's primarily a PJ kind of upgrade item. Like we have it too as a CCT to have that signed off, but man, it is fun jumping out into the North Sea off of the United Kingdom or jumping out into the Gulf of Mexico with nice warm water.  It's just, it's infectious. So this kind of ties into everything you just talked about with all of your training and everything. So what certifications or trainings do you guys receive through this job that can be used to land a job on the outside? Because there's not many civilian jobs that require what you just said, right? Like there's, how does that translate to the civilian side? Like what do combat controllers do once they get out of the Air Force and how did their training help them land those jobs? If at all. The training as a whole that we get from Special Operations Command and our sister services, that foundational kind of special operations training is what sets us up better for the outside. Whether it's being an entrepreneur, a contractor, where you're still kind of running sensors from a plane or doing, you know, on the ground contracting where you're still carrying a rifle and working with partner forces. It could be law enforcement. It could be, you know, kind of, this is rare, but it could be going and actually working in kind of a cubicle land on programs and stuff. If you're somebody who's really smart in programatics and you're good at that kind of stuff, there's a lot of folks that get out once they retire or they separate and they start their own business. You know, just like you did. So, yeah, it those kind of soft peculiar or Special Operations Force peculiar skills kind of set us up well. I think more than a PJ getting paramedic training or a CCT getting getting JTAC training or getting air traffic control training. I mean that stuff helps for sure. Like I could go work for a tower with the FAA. That's actually something when I talked to Aaron, when I did the para rescue job interview and Aaron does the podcast with you guys with ones ready. But that was something he also said is it was like our training sets us up for life and not just like a specific skill, but life in general because you guys are trained to not give up. You guys are trained to tell yourself if I want to do something it's going to happen. Nothing is stopping me. The only person stopping me is me at that point.  It doesn't matter what they choose. They could get out and for all they care say I want to be a cashier but they're going to show up and they're going to be the best cashier that company's ever seen because they're literally like once they decide that's what I want to do. I'm going to be number one. I'm going to be the best. Nobody's going to outperform me at that and that kind of mindset just sets you up for success. It doesn't matter. It doesn't even matter what career path you choose. If you if you are mentally telling yourself I don't care if every day it's hard. I don't care if there's weeks or months where things are going wrong. It doesn't matter. I'm not quitting. I'm not giving up. I'm going to succeed and it's like that's not even a certification. It's not like you can't get a degree in that but that's a life skill that you guys are it's ingrained in your blood at that point by the time you guys get out and that's what he was saying too where it's like it doesn't it doesn't matter like what we do. We're going to be successful. Yeah and and that is it's so true and it may sound arrogant egotistical and stuff like that but like I am so confident in my abilities that I know that I'm not going to be the best at everything and I know I would never pretend that I would be the best at everything. In fact I could I could rattle off all of my weaknesses. I am confident enough in my ability to negotiate, read people, read situations that I I know that I'm going to be successful and you know what if I'm I'm not getting shot at I can breathe. I have shelter. I have food and I have water. I'm a little bit alright. You're like what's the problem?  You're like I'm not fighting for my life right now. I can breathe.  There's not many people in general like jobs alone but just people in general that have been through the trials that you guys have been through that made it to those to earn your beret and then go on and serve several years after that. There's not a lot of people that have had to go through the trials that you had for years on end. It's not even it's not a hard skill it's more of a soft skill but it's just it's something that is not like you can't purchase it like you couldn't like you have to earn that. Yeah. What is your deployment tempo like in your job?  What can they expect their their deployment tempo to be like say if they had a family and they were trying to get their family on board how is their family going to be prepared for that or other people that are joining? How are they mentally going to be prepared for what that cycle is? Oh boy so that that has changed throughout the years for folks and it'll probably continue to change too. Yeah it'll it'll absolutely continue to change so one cycle is your kind of individual training where you just I am focused on my upgrades I'm focused on any additional training that I need to accomplish any kind of joint professional military education air force professional military education which are you know we are still air force airmen so we still have to meet those same requirements that every other airman have to meet it's just we have additional ones that we also have to go to you know that's that's what we're taking care of all the upgrades all the professional military education that kind of stuff in our kind of individual training phase and then we have a team kind of training phase where okay as a team we are we are doing training events to make sure we can operate as a cohesive team and then even in that sometimes there are upgrades that happen because sometimes you do need to be the team leader or on an event so it's like okay well we couldn't knock that out during your individual training phase so now you've got a team here now you can run it you know so that that's part of it another another kind of cycle is an alert cycle where you're typically not traveling that much unless something happens and if something happens then you're going you might be gone a couple days you might be gone a couple weeks you know you don't know what you don't necessarily know where you're going like I said you could end up going to you know Mississippi on a on a hurricane really for Florida on a hurricane or Puerto Rico you know which seems to happen like every year kind of thing so if you're in that kind of alert phase then you're going for that then you have your deployment you know and you're going to go this is separate from the alert you're going to have your deployment which you know is forecasted out you'll know what months you're going to be gone two years in advance so you can kind of plan your life out that way as difficult as it would be to for this job to be family friendly that seems like it they're trying to you know make it as easy as possible in that situation where you know like you just said two years in advance like you're going to be aware of this and so it kind of lets you get that planned out with your family or your own your own personal dealings whatever you have going on yeah we we try to now and we have done a much better job about it now at the the beginning when I when I came in and early on in the operations there was not a cycle established because it was all hands on deck so everybody's going a couple people will stay back to train the new new folks that are coming out of the pipeline and then those trainers and those brand new dudes would then deploy replace the folks that were downrange and and they would rest recoup train train the folks that were just getting you know graduate the pipeline and then they'd come over we just swap and that it went like that for a couple years until we was that during the global war on terrorism when that first kicked off yeah it was it was super early on um you know so it only lasted a couple years before we got into a nice cycle so what advice do you have for someone who is interested in combat control well assuming that they've already found your channel you know since they're watching this I would also ask that you check out ones ready dot com um on at the website or at ones ready on instagram or youtube check out because they have a lot of videos that are specific to cct pair rescue any of the air force special warfare pipeline just to get information what I would say in terms of advice though is man there's so there's so much advice you can try to sum it up like if I had to like give somebody you know like just a few minutes like an elevator pitch stop thinking about it start you just got to start once you start you don't quit you even when you don't feel like getting up and working out and training you don't feel like going to that development session to train you do it anyway it's about discipline not motivation motivation wanes you will not always be motivated but the discipline is what keeps you going after it on the days you don't want to train you need to do it anyway and don't quit what is the advice that you tell these guys that are brand new combat controllers that just got to be operational what's your advice to those people for every single service member that comes in stay away from the car dealerships getting a v6 camaro or Mustang for a with a 34 34 interest rate so that's I feel like you guys might have a bigger problem with that because your guys get enlistment bonuses and so then you're like no save it save it don't spend it on something stupid yeah exactly but now but really it's focus on training focus on your upgrade keep your nose clean don't don't get in trouble although it's not a one strike air force it can definitely set you back and oftentimes the way that we kind of handle that is we take people off deployment the whole reason we join and the whole reason that we want to do this job is to deploy and then you're telling me I don't get the train I don't get to deploy like that's going to crush me so and sometimes that's not us taking you off of deployment sometimes that's because you just happen to get in trouble and legally we can't deploy you so keep your nose clean focus on your upgrade training focus on your physical training don't you have again you haven't made it right you graduated you got your break great but you haven't made it started you just getting started you have to continue to stay hungry stay motivated and keep getting better to those people that are just like hey I just want to serve serve in the Air Force what's your biggest advice to just somebody that wants to be an airman in general for the folks that are already there and you know I would say be present enjoy the company that you're around and enjoy the time in because whether you end up doing four years six years or you know 25 like I'm at you're going to look back on it finally now I'm sure that's not 100% of people I'm sure that there are folks that you know have separated that have had poor experiences but I would be willing to bet that that person's poor experience is probably only a fraction of the time and if they look back they're going to make they made lifelong friends and so for the folks that are looking to join is I would expect that expect that you are going to have people into your life that you're going to remain friends with for the rest of your life no matter how far apart you are and how long it's been since you talked you happen to run into that person again or you having to pick up the phone and you're gonna pick up right where you left off enjoy the time travel if that's your thing if your thing's not traveling that's fine too but take advantage of all the skills that the the Air Force has afforded you all the opportunities that the Air Force has afforded you and just look fondly on it because not everybody gets these experiences that you're going to get a chance to you know involve yourself in where can people find you and check out more of your work especially because you and two of your close friends run a podcast that help a lot of people so how can they follow you or ask you questions get more information from you if they wanted to follow up sure so they can check us out at ones ready dot com or they can find us on youtube at ones ready or Spotify pot apple podcast any of the the kind of podcast platforms if you search for ones ready o n e s ready you can find us there on instagram we're at ones ready i'm at at cct peaches uh we're not actually on tiktok but um we're kind of we're just the gram youtube and and all the other podcast platforms like what is ones ready so why why should people go over there dude you tell them hey you ask me i have no idea i don't know why anybody would listen to us uh but but apparently they do the three people that listen to us you know our families but that's about it all of your moms yeah exactly so they love what we're doing but uh you know if you're interested in special warfare whether it's air force or or any of the other ones like we're we're kind of giving you an idea yeah we tailor more towards air force special warfare but you know we have navy seals on we have green berets on um and we can kind of the mentality is actually the exact same across the board on any of the special operations teams regardless of the service um it's just that we kind of tailor ours towards air force special warfare because that's what we know it's a lot of information about the career field about each job about the pipeline and and some of the mentality and and jobs that you can do and and have in there because even i just pulled it up right now and you guys have your most recent video is with uh dr britney lonie and she's like a mental preparation for selection so it says uh like an elite uh cognition guru yeah so like that could possibly it's probably more catered towards like you said special operations but that also is something where that can benefit anybody is understanding you know mental preparation just for any challenges that you're yeah and we don't we don't just talk to you know special operations operators or anything like that like we have everybody and we had a i don't even know what his job title would be he would he works for nasa and he is in charge of everything personnel recovery in space so recovering injured people from the space station from the moon and they're planning mars like i mean that's crazy we have senior leaders on like we've had chief master on the air force on twice i'm already talking with her right now to get her on for the third time we've had general minahan on who's the air mobility command commander we've had the air education air education and training command team on so like we try and hit a mix of of everything whether it's big air force special operations mental cognition um space i mean so we try and we try and cover it why it's we haven't launched it yet but we had one of the players from nickel back on the basis from nickel back on like you know i'm saying like yeah why would we have him on but guess what i mean they've spent the better part of 20 years in a in a small team essentially a small team with an extreme amount of pressure to not only perform but you want to talk about the hate that somebody like nickel back has yeah even though people really actually kind of like their music yeah i like nickel back and i'm not i'm not ashamed to say it but there are a lot of people they say they hate it just because it's popular to do right and they're like deep down you love it you know so you know i mean we had we had him on you know i hadn't launched it hadn't released yet but i mean we we just had a a c-17 and again this one hadn't launched it either a c-17 pilot who was one of the primary people doing the recovery out of h kaya in afghanistan she had to sign for 24 orphans like so on paper she adopted these these orphans like that and had had them on her plane that she was flying it's not just special operations however it is primarily focused on that but everybody can get something out of it we get firefighters law enforcement and even parents that watch just to get an idea of the mentality that we have as so maybe special operations then you still go over subscribe to ones ready and then just click on the videos that interest you and they when they pop up so you don't have to watch every video yeah you don't have to watch it because you guys do kind of you focus on special operations but everyone's while you'll ping some random some random other people that you're going to incorporate the special operations side of it but it also is appealing to everybody for the most part yeah exactly that's awesome i appreciate you jumping on and taking the time to do this job interview uh peaches and talk about combat control i'm sure this video is going to help a lot of future combat controllers and hopefully a lot of future airmen in general no matter what job that they have but yeah definitely go follow peaches and the rest of team at ones ready and we will see you guys in our next videos thank you


Alright you guys, what is up welcome back to another video. Today's video is gonna be the first of a series taking you from the absolute bare beginnings of this, my clothing brand major key physique. We are almost a year into it, okay, and we're almost at the launch phase of the brand and the website with the products so people can purchase. Okay this has been a year of, it's been a year of work but it's been a year of learning, a lot of learning, a lot of mistakes, okay, made along the way but a lot of joyful moments too and so with this series, this little series, I want these videos to be nice and short but I want to step by step go through the stages and what I had to do to build this brand and this clothing business from nothing to where we are now and where we will be January 1st when we open up the website for pre-sales. So I am standing here in Alice Springs, I'm actually about to travel for the first time overseas to meet with a manufacturer of mine. I actually have two manufacturers and that's that's another thing that I'll talk about in future videos but right now I'm standing here, I'm about to get packed, I'm about to go and I thought I'd just start this series and just make an intro clip talking about what to expect. We're going to talk about building the brand, getting a name, what websites I've used for certain things. You're going to be outsourcing things, tech packs, designing, contacting manufacturers, social media marketing, email lists, websites, domain names, you know the list goes on but I want to bring it to you guys because we are getting close to the launch of the business and I feel like I feel like I'm going to be straight up, I feel like this series is going to help people but it's also going to bring exposure and eyes to the brand and that's what I have been all about this past year and so that I'm going to teach you guys and tell you guys certain things that I've done to get as many eyes onto this brand as possible and I feel like I've done a pretty decent job being the fact that I still don't have any products to sell and you know we have a decent amount of following on the brand so far. So with that said I'm going to call it here, the next video we're going to talk about logos, we're going to talk about where you might get those, how you might start designing them and just where to start because if you've literally got nothing you've just got an eye deer in your head you possibly you might have come up with a name you might not have that is going to be your first task to come up with a name that can match domain name like a website and also can match social media handles because those are going to all work together as far as building your brand okay social media is going to be key as well as networking face to face but social media man as far as the way the world's going that's going to be more and more important so we're going to focus on that. Anyway that's the first episode done I will see you on the next one peace out.


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So here we are in the halls of the Senate we've just spent the morning going from office to office with a big group of people like 80 people and in each office we gave them a heartfelt testimony about what was happening in Gaza. I have a lot of kids that I mentor in Gaza. One young man he was so excited he had a job at a university he got part-time he was to be married in November he's running now for his life he has no food no money he's barely able to make it and to feed the family. Then about a month ago another student of mine who after he left Gaza went to Malaysia got a PhD and came back and married and had two children his wife gave birth again to twins about a month ago there was no anesthesia she had to give birth by c-section with no anesthesia to twins and I learned last week that the entire family Rayi his wife the two older children and the two twin newborns were all killed when their home was destroyed.  They took him to the hospital Kamal Adwan and they bombed the hospital too and all the doctors left all the people inside. This is what we have this is our story. You know my cousin in Gaza my my cousin in Gaza told me that they don't have food for children for grandchildren there is no food no water no heavy clothes to protect from there is no safety place if people not killed from bombing they will will kill from hungry and human it's you know he he told me they targeting everything human and unhuman green they destroy building everything this is really it's unhuman this is genocide against innocent people the majority of them they are children and women. I am so ashamed of any Jewish people who think that this war is a good war this is a bad war all it is is about killing innocent people we cannot be for that I am a Jew against this war. This is about this is about neocolonialism this is about really extending the power of whiteness across the world it's it's a war against brown and black people all over the world. It was really very profound to be in these these offices and we also said to them that we know the majority American people want a ceasefire and yet there's a small percentage four percent of people in Congress who have called for a ceasefire in the Senate and why we talk about APAC and all the money that this pro-Israel lobby group is giving out to everybody in this Congress Democrats and Republicans they're buying pro-Israel lobby and that is a genocidal policy right now so we were here to say stop representing a foreign country Israel that is slaughtering people in Gaza represent your constituents stop giving them the 14 billion dollars that they're voting on now the 3.8 billion dollars that they give every year let's use it to help people in this country not kill people in other countries


Penguin presents The Guilty Dead by P. J. Tracy, read by Sarah Borges. Prologue Hollywood Hills, California Gus Riskin sipped from a bottle of water as he surveyed Trey's living room. What he saw infuriated and disgusted him. The priceless Persian rug beneath his feet was filthy, pockmarked with cigarette burns, and littered with the cast-offs of a desolate life. Pizza and take-out boxes of indeterminate age, now housed skittering colonies of roaches, empty beer-bottles and martini-glasses, had drooled out their meager remains, leaving crunchy spots on the expensive silk-pile. Drug paraphernalia and detritus were scattered around the room like grotesque confetti. Something, somewhere, was putrefying. Or maybe the whole house was so fetted with human decay, both physical and moral, it had permanently saturated the air. None of this was his problem, but he still found it deeply offensive. Okay, gassy boy, let's bang! Trey's voice was croaky and manic as he bounced into the room on spindly, scaperous legs, his margarita-glass sloshing more effluent onto the rug. He sank into a sofa, drained what was left of his drink, then bent over the coffee-table and snorted a hearty noseful of coke from a snowy pile. He let out a pleasureed sigh. Then his waxen face twisted into an expression of warped mirth. One last party before spin dry, right? Gus smiled, wondering if Trey was asking for validation or just stating a fact. What could it hurt? Let's make it a good one.  No thanks.  He laughed at his own bad joke, then rubbed his fingers together in a frenzied, greedy gesture. Gimme gimme, Mr. Sandman. What you got for me tonight? Gus tossed four glass-eyed packets of heroin onto the coffee-table. Something special for your last party. Trey fondled one of the packets with shaking hands, scrutinizing its contents. Looks good.  I wouldn't do you like that, man. This is pure number four. Just came in this morning. You don't even have to heat it up. You're the boss. He pulled a thick bundle of cash from between the sofa cushions and tossed it over. There's a little something extra for you this time. You never let me down. And that's worth a lot. If there was any genuine sentimentality in that statement, it was quickly forgotten as Trey began his ritual with desperate fervor. Dissolve the heroin-salt, load the syringe, tie off the arm, wait for the stairway to heaven to open up. Gus was mesmerized, watching the liquid rise into the plastic body of the syringe as the needle greedily sucked it up. Like a honeybee with nectar. He winced when Trey stuck the needle into a partially collapsed infected vein, then sagged in ecstasy as the syringe and the surgical tubing fell to the floor. Can you stick around for a while, Gus? Trey asked in a syrupy voice. You know, just in case. Sure, I can do that. I forgot to put on some tunes. I've got a soundtrack all queued up. I'll take care of it. You're the boss. Trey repeated, his voice scarcely a mumble now. Gus took his time turning on the sound system, tweaking the treble and bass adjusting the volume. When he was finally satisfied with the levels, he checked on Trey. He was unconscious, but still breathing, which was a goddamn miracle considering the amount of high-quality dope he just pushed.  But did anyone really think that that painting was beautiful? Or was it only beautiful because it was so valuable? Trey had hinted on more than one occasion that it was worth twice as much as the house, which was a notable claim since the current market value of the place was at least four million dollars, maybe more. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


This session is to summarize or to share with you highlights of new features and new upgrades into DHS. Many of these new features are coming from the feedbacks, especially with regards to improvements that are being requested by different implementers worldwide to make sure that DHS is ruined. So that's actually the purpose of this session of the academy. So the updates that we shall be sharing with you is only the updates that are really focusing on updates, but for the sake of this academy, we shall be only focusing on updates that are more tied to the topics and features that we shall be talking in this academy. So this DHS academy, as we have been saying, is DHS analytics tools, so which means we are focusing on the analytics tools, the built-in analytics tools of the DHS, mainly dashboards, data visualizer for charts, data visualizer for pivot table and maps. And as you are aware, the DHS visualizer app has been upgraded to accommodate charts and pivot tables in the new devices. So in these highlights, we shall be looking at what are the new updates, what are the new features, what are new functions added into the DHS, especially in the analytics part. So every DHS series involves updates to these tools, especially most of the feedbacks from the field. So this overview covers features up until the latest DHS series to 37. So you might find like the features that I'm talking about, I'll be talking about, you may not currently produce into your implementations. So one of the calls would be if you are not using, let's say this 2.37 version, you may not be able to explore those ones, but as soon as you upgrade to upper versions, you can be able to, you shall benefit from these features. So with regards to DHS dashboard, as I said, these highlights will only focus on the analytics tools. So one of the analytics tools which I'll be talking about in this academy is dashboard. So the new dashboard app has been implemented since the version 2.29 that we have upgraded dashboard application. So with this one, it allows for customizing and location of dashboard items, and also you can be able to expand maps to be fully screened. So these are, I'm not sure if I don't have a pointer, but we shall be looking at how we can expand the map to be fully on screen. So if you look at analytics text, if you look down here under the map, you can see we have the analytics text where you can write your interpretations, your comments, and this discussions, based on different features, of course in the analytics tools features. So that's one of the new improvements that has been learned to dashboard. I can see there. Okay, so I would request colleagues facilitators over here to keep on responding to questions asked in the comments, but also encourage participants to please share your issues concerns into this lab. So this is one improvement on the dashboard. Secondly, the dashboard has been has been improved to quickly move between charts, tables map in a single dashboard visualization. So from a dashboard, so you can be able to if you look here can be able to change from a chart to a table or from a chart to a map. So that's a quickly move from one chart table to another that has been also improved. So from also a dashboard, you can also apply multiple filters to dashboard and all outputs will be updated together. So, or maybe during the demo here if you look here on top, we have filters. You can filter out or in computer out some of the features, whether you drill down or you do up to any object of the dashboard and automatically when you validate the changes automatically reflected on the dashboard. The third update we wanted to share with you is the favorite. So within the dashboard, there are features that has been enabled to, to, to start some favorites so it means like you are giving high priority to some of your favorite. The dashboard, especially to make sure that they are well sorted by orders image you can see the immunization dashboard has a star and immunization map and also BCG coverage doesn't so which means as as you go. So. Right dashboard automatically it comes at the first place first position. So that's the dashboard. The dashboard also has been improved to ensure there is a navigation of the menu for managing dashboard items. So, if you look here on top, we have some in dashboards. So the dashboards have been improved to simplify the navigation throughout dashboard items. From the dashboard, they also improved and from here you can from the new dashboards, of course, the new you can up when you are from the printing dashboard, whereby you have that in a dashboard, you have a possibility of being able to print your dashboards and you can print it for any way of printing. So the dashboard also has been improved to support mobile applications for those who are now testing the mobile applications with the recent versions. So the dashboard app has been improved to to both support portrait and landscape orientations within a mobile devices. So if you look on this image. So there are possibilities of seeing the dashboards on your mobile application. And if you look at the beauty of it, it's really, really good for, for, for, for, for visual for use and for so whoever wants to explore this DHS dashboard application. So the, the six improvements is that now the, the dashboard cannot be saved offline. So if you look from from the upper image here on top of at the far end, where we have far end of every dashboard, we are we are we are having now. So this means when you are offline, so we shall see during the demonstration and automatically you have an offline widget. If I can see an offline area, we can click and visual the offline dashboards. So of course, the improvement also the improvements also allows you to move between different dashboards you have saved while offline. So it means if you might, you might be having multiple offline dashboards. So which means the progress also helps you to get through. I see previously it wasn't easy possible to navigate through a dashboard when you're not connected but by making your dashboard offline. So you can easily navigate through the offline, the offline dashboards. So, so this the next. It's adding cascading sharing. This is also a new updates, new improvements to the DHS dashboard application. So within DHS to default layout has also been also been improved.  You want to meet so that you have. You have to organize so you have initially it was there you have to go and reorganize but you can stick decide to any dashboard without you want it and you stick to it. So the second application that as I have said, in this DHS and I think so it's a data visualizer. So as I have said the digital visualizer has been upgraded since 231 and integrate to combine chats and also to combine people table tables. So you can start but see what are the improvements. Excuse me, what are the improvements with regards to chats development. So with the new DHS versions, the app data visualizer app has been improved to include the new user interface for selecting chat types, selecting chat types dimensions and setting the layouts. So that that's something we shall we shall be having in the demo. You can also set your layout. You cannot set your layout as you want. So if you look here. For example, the data visualizer has a place for sales categories and so you can always filter out and play around with the layout you want and stick to that. The data visualizer, of course, charts. So the gold charts has been improved by adding legends and target line. If you look at the legend here, it has also been improved by adding the single value charts, especially looking at the legends, colors and the types. And also, the bar and column charts, legends, the colors aspect has been improved. So, throughout this session, this academy, we shall be exploring all these improvements to see and have hands on. So these are actually very good features that has been gathered from field feedbacks. And that has been integrated so far so far. Of course, you might find some of your feedbacks are not yet integrated. But maybe it requires more time or it requires more changes onto the core part of the choice but progressively your feedbacks shall get be integrated into the new releases. So the data visualizer app also has been improved to as a previously in the previous slide to add chart color set to apply to define color sets to every chart. So here we now have possibilities of a chart deciding I want to use this color set for my chart. And also, it has also been improved to text styling, meaning changing the style of the text, the size, and also even the legends. So now, users has more flexibility to decide what text style he or she wants to use colors, size, and so forth within the visualization. So these are like one of the screen shot taken from demo instance, whereby we can easily choose text features or even chart sets of colors we want to use for a given chart. So meaning like chart color set it means in this area of chart area and why text styling is about these legends. All these texts explaining the figures, the upwards figures. Any question, comment, compliment? Okay. Okay. Most of the issues shared here, the chart is related to people's use accounts. So let's keep on moving to the next update. So data dimension in data visualizer of chart has also been improved, especially making more a little bit flexible to the user. So it's now much more possible to do dimensions recommendations when working with the data elements. Of course, when the charts are. So the DHS, the interpretations, so the panel for which if you look at in the live where I'm pointing. So there is interpretation panel where users can share their interpretations on a given analysis. So all the details related to these charts and visualizer has also been improved to with a very new chart type. For example, if you look here over here bar and line charts that has been introduced. So the, the year over year balance chart is here upwards. So we have possibilities of, let's say, of floating, you can have a chart year by year. For example, this chart shows the last, since 2020, 2019, 2018 chart, the annual, the annual chart, line charts, but we have possibility of lining up the three consecutive years. So on here you can see we have the single value chart. This is a, also the improved improvements that has been made to the new DHS releases. Some of its, these are can be found, not only in 237, but also even the previous versions, especially starting from 231 version. So with the data visualizer, the new improved data visualizer app. So also the new chart type also introduced, let's say combining charts. Let's say here in the first chart we are, we are combining a bar chart and in the line charts. So we have possibilities in the new versions, new release, a new improved data visualizer app, a new possibility, a new possibility of combining charts into one floating area. For example, down here we can also have two categories of charts. So these are, all these are, also all these new chart types that has been introduced, that we shall be, we shall be sharing with you and hearing from you feedbacks, static applications. So they are, so they change based on user feedbacks. So we hope also hope to get feedbacks from you guys on how do you see the improvements made and what are the gaps and what are the new improvements that maybe you may require to have integrated into the new versions. So the new chart type also introduced in this version, 2.237. This is a sketch uploads. So the sketch uploads has been there, but it has faced some improvements, especially to make it more visual and also to make it more interpreted. So if you look here, you can see we have different colors. So see the legends, as also as I said in previous slides, legends has been improved to improve the visibility of most of the charts into the HIS. In addition to charts, as I said, data visualizer as of now combines charts configurations or development and also pivot table creations. So within the data visualizer, you can be able to create, of course, pivot table with, of course, with a very new improvements that you shall be be following the new coming sessions, comparing to the previous sessions. The pivot table since 234, it has been improved to into a single data visualizer app. The previous pivot table app is no longer available sevens, which means if you are planning to upgrade to 2.37. So get ready that the old pivot table application won't be available. But of course, as you've seen, they are very good. They are beauty with this new improved data visualizer app that combines data visualizer on that combined charts creation and also pivot tables. So all previously made pivot tables made in the pivot table app are compatible with new improvements. So all pivot table made in data visualizer are compatible with the pivot table app. So this means you might have some pivot table customized into the old pivot table. But you shouldn't be afraid that maybe you may lose your pivot tables and whatever. So in your analysis, so whatever you have customized with the old batch, I'll be transferred to the new app as you upgrade apps in the recent the chess versions. You don't have any issue. So this image tries to explain a little bit are looking at say if you look at the visual presentation of the app, so it's completely different. Because here with the new pivot table, you see, it's actually better than the new ones, right. So the next improvement of updates made into pivot table, of course, within data visualizer app. This one is regarding improvements meant to data visualizer app. Okay, this is what I have explained. So the persisted layout of people for pivoting items quickly. There are also dimensions recommendations. So which means if you configure the applications. So the, the new app or recommend some of the new dimensions, especially looking at how what will be the most ideal analysis that you would want to do the interface also has been improved. So, of course, in the old HHS, we had also interpretations but with this new pivot table, the interpretation panel has been enhanced. So you shall be experiencing that one also throughout the exercise and the practice sessions in the coming in the coming days. Some of us has been, you know, with some of us have been used with using Excel and being able to freeze some of the columns and rows and people has been requesting these features for long to be able to have similar functionalities to be able to freeze, let's say, if you have, let's say a very long, a very long pivot table and want to scroll down to see but keep on, let's say the columns and and leave out the freeze the headings. So this feature has been also integrated to the HHS and we shall also be exploring this one in the exercise. After any question before, even though this is a highlight we shall have more time to do practice and assess all these features but if you might, in the case you might have some questions up to I can have time to get two or three questions. For compliments from facilitators here. Any question. Okay, so if there is no question, let me go on. No compliments. Am I audible? Yes. Okay, because sometimes with technology you are still online. Okay, good to hear from that you're also still there. Okay. I don't know sir, the audio is on. Thank you very much for the feedback. So the map application since 2.29 has has got very much improvements especially trying to accommodate to feed feedbacks collected from the field from the field from implementers. So the interface, as you can see from this image, it has really completely changed adding new new map layers. If you look in here, we have a thematic layer, we have events, you have track entity, you have boundaries, temperature, specifications, land cover layers. So all these layers have been integrated to make sure that you are more comfortable with the map application and also the map application can respond to most of your mapping needs. Secondly, initially, we had issues by downloading maps, especially combining multiple layers. So this time is now possible. So you can now download your map as an image. And so you can download your map data and be able to look in here. This is really, people have been requesting this feature for a while, whereby you find, even though DHIS can address most of the mapping needs of users, but of course there are people who still need some much advanced QGIS or ArcGIS features that maybe we haven't yet integrated with DHIS within DHIS. So the map application has been improved to accommodate all those requests to make sure that you can download your data and be able to do manipulations into ArcGIS to produce more fancy, more advanced ArcGIS QGIS based maps. So if you look at this image, so you can now download your data as a Jensen format and start to use it for your ArcGIS applications and other JIS software that you may have at your disposal. So with the new maps application, it has really been improved to allow you to map or to display your data table. So you might be displaying your map, but there are some people who are, let's say, depending on the different audience, they want to see your data table. You want to see data that has contributed to the map that they are seeing. So the DHIS map application has been improved to accommodate that request also. So this is the visual presentation of it for you guys, but we shall have more time to do practices on this. The next improvement made on this DHIS map application is to be able to use your data by machines to do something. So if you look here, let's say you might have a disaggregated agenda. In your first bloating of the data, maybe you didn't want to have, you didn't want to have different things between, you didn't want to have... You're breaking a lot, I don't know if it's on my side. I can't hear anything. Does everybody experiencing it? Yes, thank you. Experiencing myself. You've been off for a while. Hi everyone. While writing for others to come back, we shared the training instances in the Mudo. Check on the announcement path. We have the link for what we're using for training. And you shall create the account for yourself. I will share the links in chat as well. So, sorry guys, I had the network issue. I hope my audio bono. Yes, you are. Okay, so let me continue the presentation. So I was explaining that the next improvement done on maps application is to be able to use your data dimensions to filter your maps. So let's say you might have as a user as an example, you want only to focus on male-related data on your map. So here you can easily exclude data related to male to female. I'm mixing up. So you want to include female-related data and you want to exclude male-related data. So from here you can fit out what you want and be able to plot it on your map. So with the map, it has also been improved to create both color plate and bubble maps. So you can choose whether you are using color plate or bubble map. So if you look, bubble map looks like this one. So you have bubbles and here you are just painting the whole area or the whole base on your shape files. So you can decide is it going to be like a bubble map? Is it going to be like color plate map? So the color plate is this one and the bubble map is this one. So you see, so as for the bubble map when you have, so based on your origins, so where it's redwish based on how your origin is, so it's the same thing like this one. But it's here it's presented in a bubble style, but here it's color plate. So within the new maps feature, so the maps have also been upgraded or enhanced to have split view and timelines map. So if you look here, so you can easily split your maps and have it split it and also you can also use different timelines to have different maps. So all these are new features that has been added into the HIS or improved into the HIS for you to be able to maximize the use of the HIS for your different data uses and also data and reporting requirements. So if you look at this image, you can see that there is a possibility of creating map, combining the facility, your facilities layer and also adding including images based on the types of, based on the facilities you want, the image of facilities. This is also another feature for you for those who wants to have real facility image into their systems. Let's say having, we know you used to have, we normally have also the images for different facility types, making them private for private, for public, for referral hospital, for health center. So there are possibilities of having different images and icons for different facilities, but also as the improvements are being made, it's also to be able to add your hospital images into the system. So any question before we go to do a kind of a quick demo of what we have been saying, please raise your hand if you have a concern, maybe I will take like few minutes to give a floor to my facilities if they do have compliments and also try to get your questions. If you do, please. I can see prosper in here prosper in compliments. So if no question I assume you understood everything. So let's go to our demo session. So as it has been explained so during this academy which I'll be using instances instances that has been shared to communicate to you. But if you have missed it out. We shall keep on sharing the links into the slack for you for those who are coming to keep up with us and also we do it together. So, we have, we have two instances for you guys. So we have two instances for you guys. So we have the the academy.demo.dev.org slash configure that you shall be using for configuration works. And also we have the second one as it has been explained to you for this one is not up. Do you see my screen. No, no, only any questions. Okay, let me share my my screen again. Do you see it? The link is also shared here in chat. Yes. As I said, we have two instances for you guys, you have a configuration slash configure instance that you shall be using for the configuration exercise. But for analysis, practice and whatever. As Jean Paul said it already shared on the slide. It's not displaying for me and I'm not sure why it's not. But since it has been shared with you, where is it. Check in the chat here. Okay, for you guys so you shall be using all these two instances for for your review for your analysis rated exercise and for your configure for your configuration rated exercise. So after look. So when you log into your system, you shall see automatically shall go straight to the to the dashboard. So for the sake of this academy, so we shall shall limit this demo to of course to the chase analytics tools. So yesterday when you look at For example, as I've been explaining, so the dashboard has been improved to be able for you to be able to start your favorite, your favorite dashboard. If you look here, you can start your, your dashboard. For example, by doing by kicking on this star. See for every dashboard you have this possibilities of starting it by clicking it by clicking to start automatically. The dashboard with the with the star is given a priority. And also, it helps you searching your favorite. Which meeting. Are you following. My little time. I'm not supposed to be sitting in finance meeting. Yes, we are following the same orders grace. Hello. Yeah, you say grigating. We are very few people here. Okay.  So inside the dashboard as I've been explaining, you see, we have possibilities of filtering. So I've been explaining the filtering. So for example, inside the dashboard. I can say, I want to, excuse me. I want to filter to filter the, for example, let's say one province. So I can simply click here on a province and comes in here and filter only for example, food animal. And when confirmed automatically, the old dashboards are automatically updated with the animal with animal province. So if I go back and say, okay, let me, this is not what I wanted. I can go back and make sure that I say filter both. If I update, I'm sure that this is what I want. And then you see automatically, these filters automatically applies to to the whole dashboard. So you see this is also some what I've been talking about the improvements that has been made on on the dashboard application. So you can also, from this, as I said, so you can also choose multiple, you can also start multiple applications multiple dashboards. So as I said, any, you can start as many as you want, but automatically, the system sort of course alphabetically, the, your dashboards based on how you are going to your, your, your, your, your after starting the dashboard. You can also, for example, decide to filter or change dimensions. Let's say dimensions. Let me use this one connected or not. Let me see. So you can decide to use any policy. I want to filter out only six months. So which means I want to my dashboard only plot all data for the last six months. So if I confirm here, automatically, my dashboards get updated and whether charts, map, pivot table, everything is so is updated based on what I have filtered out here in the, in the filters. So this is really a very good feature for, for, for, for you to, if you are planning for you to do practice on and also explore how you can adopt it in your, in your country implementation. Any question, comments. Are you okay. Yeah, okay. Let's say, let's say, for example, you want to, so there are multiple configuration or changes you can do in here. For example, let's take an example of this first map. For example, you can also do some changes on this, on, on this map. See, you can also change however you want. So here we've been dealing with it with the dashboard. So but also you have a possibility of dealing with, of dealing with your, your very specific, very specific dashboard item. For example, of this one. If let's say I want to only change this one. Okay, let me bring it back. I want to only change this one. So I can open this one and be able to accommodate my changes. And with doing changes, when saved automatically changes are automatically reflected in the dashboard. There was me, I see the network is a little bit slow. I hope you still see my screen. So what's going on in here. We can have network issue in here. So do you still see my screen. Yes, I do. This is actually a network issue that is displaying all the things. It will have displayed the chart the way you want it. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. So you can see, for example, let's take an example of this, of this chart. We can easily hope to, to change the period in here and probably limited instead of let's say using let's say six months. You can set to say, okay, let's look what is happening into three months and update our, our chart. So you can see, for example, here, the. You can see, for example, here in this, in this chart, we have more female positive HIV positive cases, and also have, have a few male positive. So I also decided to, for example, to change. And for example, let's change the presentation. Let's say you want to, as I've been saying, like they are the new DHS features allows to have free movement from one, moving one object to another. For example, let's take this one. Let's say we say we want to, we want to let me select the, for example, the, the two provinces. And maybe I want, I want this all units. I want this opening to be in here. And update, for example. So you can see, for example, I wanted to display this. Okay, I wanted to display to see how my regions are the state of status in my regions, my two regions. How it's there. So you can see, for example, the animal, the animal region has more positive cases and the food region has very few positive cases. So as soon as I update, I, I, I save changes automatically this one is reflected into the system. So from here, you can also see, for example, the interpretations. So within this data visualizer app, you can easily add interpret right your interpretation in here for this very specific for this very specific chat. Let's say. So, and the good thing you see the DHS keeps records of whoever did what and when that action has been powerful has been done. I can see, for example, the animal region seems to have double cases more than double. I have more than double cases HIV cases, HIV positive cases, comparing to food region. So when done, I can easily save my interpretation and okay, I can save my, I can save my interpretation and automatically the interpretation is there written there and the date and yeah. That's one of the improvements. The next improvement with regards to in addition to this with regards to interpretation. So you can see, yeah, you can manage sharing of your interpretations. So you can decide to reply to a given interpretation, you can hide. You can share the interpretation decide who are you going to share your interpretation if you want to make it public if I'm to share to a very specific group of users, or if you want to edit or delete. So these are features are these operations that you can do with your with your interpretations. Any question. Yes, Campano. I've seen Campano raising the hand is it. So please go ahead, my audible. If Copano is not ready, let's go to Derek. Derek, the floor is yours. Hello, hello. Yes, please. Okay, sorry, it's Copano. I mean, I think we were, we were not allowed to unmute ourselves but it's now been resolved. So that's why I couldn't hear me. Okay, so. Yeah, my question is okay. Did you share the login details for this particular instance? Yes, the, the login details if they are not shared. Yes, I'll be shared with you very soon. I'll ask Jean-Port to share with you the login details in this lab for everyone, right? So that as soon as we start tomorrow session, everybody is ready to start. Maybe just to add upon that, Adolf. Yes, apparently we have, we have the links within the Moodle. So if you go into Moodle, you'll find the links for this DHS2 platform and you'll be required to self register yourself. So apparently it's just the link and the account is going to be created by yourself via self registration. So if you log in into Moodle, you'll find a tab, you'll find a tab written DHS2, you'll find a tab named DHS2 training instances links. So if you open that, you'll find the two links for the platforms. What is for you to move around with all these analytical features, but the second one is going to be on the configuration part. Once we get into validation rules, configuration session. So both of them you have to register yourselves. Make sure you don't forget the username and passwords. Okay, thank you Adija. Any other questions? Delik, are you still asking or we continue? Thank you very much Adolf. Yeah, mine I had with internet and mine was about the dashboards. When we were talking about the dashboards, when you're filtering. When you're filtering with multiple dashboards that we had, we had immunization HIV and whenever you would filter, let's say like you want only the six months, it would appear to all the dashboards. Yeah, thank you very much. You can see here, we have different dashboards. And whenever you would filter, let's say like six months as you did, it appeared to all the dashboards. So now in my case, let's say I want to pick up only one one dashboard. Let's say like immunization only and it's only one that I want to visualize. Oh, maybe it's the only one I want to put into those months. Is it possible or is it possible to be done right here? Thank you. Okay, I'm not sure if I got you well. So if for example, I apply my filter to HIV district dashboard.  If I would just want to do it specifically for a single dashboard object. So you see here there is, there's three buttons in here. That's where you command, open your application, your object and change and after what do you say. But when you do it from here, it means you are doing for the whole dashboard objects. So whatever you do here in this dashboard, it doesn't apply to immunization, HIV facility, HIV national immunization app. So the other dashboards are very independent. So they are not, they don't have any linkage with this one. Oh, thank you. Yeah. So while we are here, you see we have different possibilities of editing of editing dashboards. And as I said, you see we have a printing option. So for every dashboard you can print. So if you print, all of this, all of this are going to be printed. Let's say if I try to print this one. So the printer is compiling everything. So then when it's done, I will print. That's one of the ocean. Secondly, we have also for every dashboard. No. Excuse me. So for every dashboard, apart from using a printing option here, you can also share your dashboard.  So we have possibilities of sharing with the group and also the access levels where they to view only or view and edit. Okay. So we also have the as I explained before, there's also a possibilities of making your dashboard offline. Let's take an example if let's say I take this one, and I make it offline. So it means as much as I make it offline. So that means when I'm offline, I will have possibilities of making of navigating from one offline dashboard to another without having a conscience that I'm not connected. So this one you can try it by yourself. So moving fast. Let's also see. Apart from using this offline offline. So there are also quite a number of tools that you can explore you can play along with from to see how they really work and give us feedback. You can share with them and if not share with the improvements that you may find more relevant to be added. In addition to to that. So as I said, this three button it's when you want to deal with a very specific dashboard object. And here it's when you want to deal with the whole, the whole dashboard. So that's with regard with the with the dash with the chat. So let's look at with regards to maps, not to pivot tables. So with regards to pivot tables if you look here. DHS allows you to add some legends color coding style for let's say for a very specific. For a very specific analysis you want to do.  I can just simply come here and open it up and be able for example to to to limit all units to change all units from this one let's say to to sub to sub to regions. So doing so automatically the system we change and give me the pivot table. So in here. You can also decide to let me bring back this one. You can also decide to to to look into let's say few period few months. Let's say instead of having 12 months, I have six months, and then update. So the dashboard also from this does applies and accommodate changes as needed. So from this one, who can tell me the who can tell me the which district with a very lowest lowest ratio. Come again. I just want to find out if you've been following from this pivot table. So we have said we have applied legends and I just want to find out from you who can easily tell me which district with a very low ratio hiv ratio. Can you make it bigger this small we cannot see why. Okay, I think I think it's the the bed district. Yes, the district. Yes. Yeah, that's so you see the bed district. Huh. So why is it the bed districts. I think we look at looking at the titles of the columns, the fourth column is where you have the hiv ratio on the new on art newly diagnosed interest interest entities. If I do like this. Is it still. It's still the lowest just that bit. I think you have just reordered. Yes, yes, yes, it is still the bed districts. And so you see, with this table you can simply sort by any column. You are pivot table rights. So based on the analysis you want to do you can easily do a sort of sorting. For example, people living with HIV tested that are logically suppressed. If you sort by by the sending order this is how it should be if by ascending order society should be. So you see with this new DHS pivot table, you can still do much much of the analysis as you want. So in addition to still within this pivot table, they are much things you can do for through this options. So see we have saving these are your familiar with, but also in the options we have different features that are here for us to be used we shall have more time to to play around with them by applying so for example this one. We have applied a predefined agent. So which means we have ready created the agent and applied to this table. We have a legend change background color. So this is what you use when you watch series you still can do some improvements that you want. So you can also limit your values you have can also deal with your parameters so there are a lot of things you can do within this pivot table side.  Any question. I'm sure we shall have more time every day dedicated to every application or every feature mentioned starting from that that additional analysis and configurations charts my pivot tables and maps. We have much time dedicated to every of these aspects for us to really dig deep and do left and right up and down exercise, try to look in every corner of these applications to get familiar and find what is new with these applications. So probably without taking much of your time. I can limit my demo here as we shall have more more time with regards to to this. So maybe I can conclude by maybe looking at the charts showing you how you can. How it looks like, even though you've seen it in the PowerPoint, but let's see if you have on this dashboard. It's a map, a map. So you simply click on it and open it. So it does have the features that I've been talking about. So the network is not so strong. It's posted this way. So what it is distributed display who can remind me the features we have discussed previously with regards to charts. Hello. Hello. Yes, we can hear you. I was asking who can remind me the features we went through regarding the chart the map system is loading. The maps you are clearly indicate about the download button or you can import this to the map for the arc GIS or the QG is these features are the benefits. So, also during the map you can shift or changing into the tables, or you can use the three different dimensions, you can filter it to the map. So there are there are benefits. But also I have seen. Sorry remedy. So within the dashboard also the three bottom I have seen this another feed another benefit which is, if you can click on the bottom there's a full screen you can also show as a slideshow with your dashboard so these are the benefits which we have learned today. Thank you, but also have a question for you. It has been shared for two instance. One is for in the moodle but so one is the data analyte I have made my username and password. But also if I want to go the second instance for configuration do I need to have again another username or shall I use both in one username. Thank you. Yeah, thank you Ibrahim for with regards to to the instance I think as of now we shall be using the, the, the slash review instance. So but as we move forward, as we progress into the academy, the facilitators are communicating the instance to use, but apart from configuration exercise. That shall be done into the configuration the configure instance, the rest of your work shall be done into the review instance. So in every instance you should have you should you have to create the user account. Thank you. Let's see why my network is not moving fast button. Okay, let me use this one. Because I see that one is a little bit slow. So I've been talking about the, the, the maps, the map outputs to the dashboard. So they're actually looking at the, the network issues we're facing maybe may not load easily the maps application. But as hoping up to what Ibrahim said, we have the new maps application has actually improvements on, on, on maps, no layers. So they are very good improvements done performed on layers, new layers has been introduced, and also different maps type and also possibilities of drink down into the maps.