WHAT MAKES A MAN

on the stand hold it straight what gives a man determination the love of the fighter plane that mice our destiny what makes a man is what it takes to make our nation what makes a man two buildings make a man can stone metal glass wood and concrete make a man can sunlit vistas landscape greenery and purple mountains majesty make a man can knowledge there's a textbook contain the recipe in a formula describe a man does action make a man competition winning losing exercising eating sleeping does running make a man you have to run a lot you should be in as good shape as possible when you first arrived run regularly to keep in shape run all the time if you can't run a lot you're going to trouble first year besides playing football in high school I could have kept myself in better physical shape by doing a larger amount of running every day I used to think the marching was just another shortcut to anonymity it's not it's just another way of bringing order out of chaos what happens to individuality when everybody wears the same kind of haircut as on the same kind of uniform and does all the same kind of things during summer training you learned you haven't exactly lost your individuality you just traded it in for a later model an Air Force types and you are going to build it yourself the Academy supplied the location and all the tools you furnish the raw material and did the work this confidence make a man higher higher higher up there somewhere you may find confidence and solving problems make a man think cooperate as a group initiate are you emerging as a leader or are you all wet the civilian is being changed into the cadet the transformation is taking place on the run on the goal on March Emerson said the universal does not attract us until housed in the individual if the period between the formation of the earth and now were reduced to just a single year it wouldn't be until after 10:00 p.m. on the night of December 31st that man could crawl down out of the trees at 35 seconds before midnight he would learn to write then with less than one second to go man would build ships of Steel stagger into the air rock continents with unleashed nuclear energy and at the stroke of midnight lunge into space cosmologically this has been the pace of evolution but this pace has not been without its penalties each new step has cost its dead and maimed and now man is faced with the most hostile and unforgiving environment he has yet encountered space can a great concept make a man imagination vision and time and space make a man bring me men to match my mountainous men to match their majesty men to climb beyond their summits searching for their district bring the men the self-expression make a man the gentleman from Wyoming have told us several the arguments I think we've heard all year I'd like to apply them specifically to the affirmative case and see if they have any relevance point number one poverty programs are best financed on the federal level first the gentleman from Wyoming made a general observation as to how that didn't justify a guaranteed minimum annual cash income of course it doesn't it's not supposed to you know it appears to me that the gentleman from the air force not only want to guarantee everyone the pursuit of happiness but they want you and I to finance it as well retraining has no guarantee of a job and second even in the people that have those jobs there is no guarantee of there's a point of view way most of a man studied opinion firm conviction learn affect and you've got it learn to think and you'll harvest never ending thanks Ptolemy the first king of Egypt wished to study geometry without going over the thirteen parts of Euclid's elements he said that a short cut would be agreeable whereupon Euclid answered that there was no Royal Road to geometry often misquoted as no Royal Road to learning no Royal Road to learning no easy walk to knowledge it can't be painted on you and no combination of chemicals can suddenly make you super intelligent here at the academy we have a balanced curriculum we study engineering Natural Sciences humanities and Social Sciences conce moral maximum is the categorical imperative so that in consuelo philosophy doing your duty is not necessarily concerned with doing what most people do what you want to do or what you are ordered to do that doesn't seem like there's any limit to how far you can go academically but you've got to learn how to organize your time the Dodgers having the World Series me dry Mar intra nanda given as Fonda Yankees the Dodgers the Yankees say Chango beside the Dodgers soon Lyman yang Yang Guang Sun Tzu joyeux Yankees bingo Dodgers new target on years of ivali World Series sedale a Yankees where own loss Yankees English Lit American history military history history of airpower our study of Air Force history must begin with an analysis of the men who shaped that history far and away the most prominent of the early leaders in the study of Air Force history would be general Billy Mitchell Mitchell by his combat leadership and France and by his efforts to shape the American public's understanding of the potential of air power as the best claim of those early leaders to the title father of our Air Force government and international relations military and civil law electrical engineering physics and chemistry civil engineering geography psychology and human relations humanities economics Aeronautics astronautics political science mr. Weese sir what would be your opinion on the moral and ethical position of a scientist who was working on plans that were directly opposed to his governments in the field of international arms control well mr. Weese what's your opinion on that subject well sir first this scientist would have to make up in his own line o rubber-stamp thinking no pre-programmed robot what mechanical man would be interested in an exchange of ideas what product of an assembly line could create new things develop new methods discover new worlds if you didn't know it already you soon found out that the Air Force Academy is not just an engineering school not just a liberal arts college or a university it is a very special institution with the unique mission of producing Air Force officers who will be equal to every struggle in which freedom is involved in the years ahead new wings make a man although I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies and laughter silvered wings sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of Sun split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed up we saw swung high in the sunlit silence hovering there I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air up up the long delirious burning blue I've topped the windswept Heights with easy grace were never lark or even eagle flew and file with silent lifting mind that brought the high uncus past sanctity of space put up my hand and touch the face of God I have been around this land just been doing the best I can trying to find what I and the faces that I see are as worried as can be and it looks like they are and I can't help but wonder where I found her I can help I found a buddy way back home buddy started out to roam and I hear he's a flight risk obey and sometimes when I've had a few his voice comes ringing through him and I can't I can tell I wonder where I found if you see me a peasant my and you sit and you wonder why and you wish that you were a Rambler to tell your shoes to the kitchen lordly cinema and bar the door and thank the stars for the roof that sober I can't help but wonder where I found and I can tell what is there about physical fitness that makes a man there's a code of honor make a man I am myself the guardian of my honor if I lose my honor I lose myself for where there is no self trust there can be no truth among men I asked true humility that knowing self and they rise above human frailty I asked courage that I may prove faithful to duty beyond self I ask unfailing devotion to personal integrity that I may ever remain honorable without compromise honor is keeping a bargain made with myself it's like a personal flag flying high above the country that is me despite those covers for any reason is unthinkable defeat it would mean facing myself and a cowards prison for the rest of my life what makes a girl choose a man we'll graduating make a man four years ago you were a civilian and you became a cadet now you're about to become an Air Force officer that's what the Academy is all about preparing you for a career in the Air Force you should want to be an air force officer more than anything else in the world I don't think I could have hacked the program if I hadn't wanted to be in the Air Force from the start lots of colleges and universities turn out scholars the Academy does more than that run Dooley run hurry up come on you're an air force officer now that means a lot you can even get married if you have a mind to and leave for your honeymoon in your own car single or married you'll soon be back on the job the job of continuing to grow continually finding yourself and you've got a lot of room to grow the mates Amanda on the standard and hold it straight and true it's a man determination love the by the way that mice are desert but makes a man is what it takes to make our nation an Air Force Korea is as wide as the world as varied as living as challenging as the Stars maybe that's the answer to the question what makes a man the challenge the challenge offered at the United States Air Force Academy love the border the vital plane at my