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Keesler MTL details powerful story of resilience on “Developing Mach-21 Airmen” pod

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  • Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – Resiliency is the theme of the eighth episode of "Developing Mach-21 Airmen," Air Education and Training Command's professional development podcast series, released April 29.

In the episode, Master Sgt. Ryan Crane from the 81st Training Wing Public Affairs office at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., sits down with Tech. Sgt. Victoria Monzon, a military training leader instructor with the 81st Training Support Squadron at Keesler, to tell her story of resilience, hardship, overcoming adversity and love of the Air Force.

Born and raised in Guatemala, Monzon talks specifically about how she came to the Air Force and struggled with various situations in her life.  From there Monzan goes in-depth on her journey from thinking she was going to get out of the Air Force to finding herself as a military training leader ensuring our Airman are lethal and ready to tackle any mission.

The professional development podcasts are designed to help communicate and inform Total Force Airmen across the globe on relevant, timely topics related to the recruiting, training, education and development fields and can be listened to on the government network on the AETC website, or via mobile application as well as on Apple Podcasts (iTunes). For Android or Google mobile users, the podcast can be found on their favorite third-party podcast phone application.  

Future episodes are set to cover a wide range of topics, including a look at where the learning environment is heading towards in the year 2030; joint civil engineering technical training at Sheppard AFB integrated officer and enlisted training within the Security Forces career field and much more.