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you know , you may not be able to look 

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at someone and say that person is a 

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future general or that person is , you 

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know , future hero of the nation . But 

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their acts are their pedigree 

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Charles McGee Leadership Award is a 

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form of , in college scholarship that 

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created specifically to address the 

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condition of cadets who have a 

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financial hardship during the last two 

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years and are not already on 

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

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tuition scholarship or it can be 

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converted into a $10,000 per year 

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housing benefit If not win . But if 

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that's a slogan that we've used 

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multiple times to describe the program 

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because about 40% previously of crude 

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exports were on scholarship . Um , and 

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there were very few scholarship 

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opportunities for rising juniors . Uh , 

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now at this point with the introduction 

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

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after the sophomore year . Everyone who 

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remains in the program at that point , 

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who did not already receive a 

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scholarship during their freshman or 

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sophomore years will receive a 

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scholarship . It needed something it 

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needed a name that really indicated 

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what we were trying to go after . And 

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uh , the timing of when we were sitting 

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down and discussing the scholarship 

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program was coincidental with the 

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untimely passing of Brigadier General 

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Charles McGee . It was 

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unknown at the time when he was 

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selected for the program , but he would 

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be as successful as the ultimate was . 

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It wasn't , it was only through 

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demonstration of his actual skills and 

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abilities that the Air Force 

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fortunately realized that in this 

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person we have a jewel . Uh , somebody 

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who is going to contribute greatly to 

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the defense of this nation . Kind of 

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reminded us of some of the cadets who 

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are going through our program , who 

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maybe have faced some hardships early 

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on . That could have been mitigated 

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through some intervention on the part 

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of uh , of the Air Force . And we saw 

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this as an opportunity to do that . 

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Yeah .