GENERAL LENGYEL’S FOUR DREAMS
Career exposure, citizen-warrior, continuous change, and second chances
by Lango Deen
ldeen@ccgmag.com
General Joseph L. Lengyel 28th Chief of the National Guard Bureau
presented by Gen. Lengyel at the Stars & Stripes Dinner
20 USBE&IT | WINTER 2017
Based on a speech
our nation safe without them.” Therefore, “Inspiring dreams among them to succeed in career fi elds of STEM that help all of us do our jobs better…is very important.” “There are four separate dreams I’ve seen in my life and career: exposure, citizen-
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warrior, continuous change, and second chances,” explains Lengyel. “I was exposed to the military and fl ying airplanes my whole life. When I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a fi ghter pilot when I watched two F105s taxi on the runway.” Lengyel continues, “It was the coolest fi ghter I ever saw in my life. I knew right then. I said, ‘Man, that’s cool. I am gonna do that.’” That’s the exposure model, where people see and emulate what is around them.
“I’ve talked to kids. Their parents are in the Navy…Marine Corps…the Army…. We have these kids—that’s what they want to do, that’s the example they’ve seen, they’ll excel in STEM, they’re interested, and that’s a good thing for us,” says Lengyel. The second is the citizen-warrior model. This is the model of the 800,000 men
and women wearing uniforms in our Department of Defense across all the services and who live two lives. “This is a dream model that is an amazing opportunity and unique to the reserve component particular to the National Guard,” Lengyel continues.
or General Joseph J Lengyel, 28th Chief of the National Guard, inspiring kids to dream is very important. As Lengyel explains, “Kids clearly are our greatest national resource. As a military guy, they clearly are our most complex and most important weapons system. We can’t do anything to keep
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