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00:00Are you guys ready to lift?
00:10Roger that.
00:13Facts are getting on board.
00:15Alright, take off.
00:17Roger.
00:19Hello, oxygen.
00:22You guys have your masks down in the back.
00:25Roger that.
00:27Alright, two minutes.
00:29Roger, two minutes.
00:32Stand above.
00:34Copy.
00:36Your request clearance to drop.
00:38Tiger 1-1, you are clear to drop.
00:40First jumpers away.
00:42One, two, three, four, five, jumpers away.
00:46Four, five, five, three.
00:49The Marine Corps has its own kind of, like, myth around it.
00:52I want the truth! You can't handle the truth!
00:55And those are the dudes people see in movies.
00:58I thought that is the coolest thing.
01:00That is the most bad-ass job you can do.
01:02You're gonna be Marines.
01:03We're the roughest, toughest bastards on the planet.
01:05Hey, look, toss them off!
01:07We get dirty.
01:09We do the ugly things.
01:1180% of it's gonna suck ass.
01:13Slam this ass!
01:14Knock this window!
01:15I'm losing my fucking mind, bro.
01:18And then 20% of it's like, it makes it worth it, you know?
01:20We are the oldest American fighting service.
01:25Founded in 1775.
01:27On plan, at scene, and in the air.
01:34I don't want to disparage the other services, but there's sometimes a sense that it's more of a career or a job, where in the Marine Corps it's more of a calling.
01:42If you can't buy in, then, like, get fucked.
01:49When you look at all the branches, Marine Corps is a 911 force, ready to go fight tonight.
01:57Lock the ass, clear the weapon.
01:59Marines are sort of our entire military pressed into one branch.
02:03They have unique abilities to overwhelm the enemy on virtually any battlefield.
02:07A little back at the Army!
02:08With the lightning-fast, super-aggressive capacity that they're trained for.
02:12The problem, though, is that for the last 20 or so years, we have been fighting a war against terrorism.
02:17And the Marines have been used like regular army, fighting against lightly armed groups, holding territory, conducting patrols.
02:25That would be different, fighting a great power.
02:29The Pacific is now the focus for the Marine Corps.
02:32And this is a tough neighborhood.
02:34You've got North Korea, China, and Russia here.
02:38We have to be ready to respond anywhere across these millions of square miles.
02:43So the 31st Marine Expeditioning Unit is here in Okinawa.
02:48Ready to go out on patrol with these amphibious warships.
02:51Right now, we are less than two weeks away from actually bringing all these units together.
02:56We're expected to be a cohesive fighting unit.
02:59We're going to be sailing around for the next two months, and we have to go through training exercises to make sure that we are fit to the task.
03:04If war breaks out, it's on us to be prepared as America's first responders.
03:08If another nation declares war on us, these Marines will be the first to go.
03:15They will be following orders that can get them killed.
03:19No matter what, it's going to be bloody.
03:22Time now!
03:23But at the end of the day, that's that young 19, 18-year-old.
03:27They are the guys that do what needs to be done to America's enemies.
03:32And not all of them are coming home.
03:36You've got a moral obligation to be as good as you can before this thing starts.
03:40What?
03:41World War III.
03:42Yeah.
03:43I don't want to sit here and say I'm praying for war or whatever,
04:10but, like, that's what I want at the end of the day, you know?
04:17That's what I fucking dedicated the last two years of my life to training for,
04:20was that fucking feeling of sending hate downrange at somebody, you know?
04:30I'm Price.
04:31I'm a machine gunner with Alpha Company and 1-4.
04:34Raiders.
04:36Yeah.
04:38I'm Roland, and I'm a machine gunner in Alpha Company,
04:41but I'm somewhat, to an extent, go-with-the-flow type of guy,
04:44so he's just kind of, like, telling me what to do, like, kill whoever.
04:47But, uh, I've been, like, focusing...
04:50Kill whoever.
04:52Not like that. The bad guys, you know?
04:55I like to say I'm a grunt by trade, machine gunner by billet, and badass by default.
05:06You're done.
05:07A grunt is a hard motherfucker.
05:09Someone that's gonna do exactly what they're told, when they're told, and how they're told,
05:14and they're gonna complain the entire time they're doing it.
05:18They have this negative stigma about them, where they're just fucking stupid.
05:22Bunch of rock eaters. Bunch of fucking...
05:24I hate that. I hate that so much.
05:26Because, like, we think to...
05:27We have fucking feelings, all right?
05:30And people don't understand that.
05:32I'm a grunt, but I'm not a dumbass, all right?
05:36All right?
05:38Yeah.
05:39Damn, son, you're digging that shit in there, boy.
05:41Roland, he's my best friend.
05:43He's a great guy.
05:44Like, my favorite person.
05:46I lived with him before I joined the Marine Corps.
05:49He's my family. He really is my family.
05:51We enlisted and put the boot camp together and everything.
05:55How many are you?
05:56Oh, 10, hoops.
05:59Give it a command.
06:00We get off the buses. They line us all up.
06:03What's your name?
06:04They're like, they still need two guys for machine guns.
06:07And he's like, all right, I'm looking for the two biggest motherfuckers.
06:11And he gets to me, and he's like, okay, that's decent.
06:17And then he looks at my neck.
06:19And I have a particularly wide neck.
06:22And he's like, yep, I want you and guns.
06:25And then he goes down the line.
06:28About this.
06:29He looked at Smith's neck.
06:31And Smith also has a pretty damn wide neck.
06:34There you go.
06:35He picks me, and he picks Smith.
06:37That's pretty freaking crazy.
06:39Then they hand out room cards, and we get the same fucking room.
06:43I definitely know you're in a place where you're not in a combat zone or anything like that.
06:51And then, you know, feelings would be way different once you're actually in it.
06:57I mean, I can't think of anybody to be more ready than this.
07:01Yeah.
07:03Machine gunner's job is like the most dangerous in the infantry.
07:06For example, in Vietnam, the average lifespan of an employed machine gunner is like seven seconds.
07:11I don't know, the idea of that is like, oh, I want to fucking outlast that seven seconds, you know?
07:16I want that rush.
07:17I want that adrenaline.
07:18I want that feeling.
07:19I love violence.
07:24Ever since I was, like, a little kid, and I can say this for many other Americans, the youth, how they always admired the biggest, like, action characters in the shows and movies, like superheroes and action figures.
07:44Violence is the only thing that makes fucking life interesting.
07:47Like, yeah, there's the negative things about it, but in my eyes, violence is, like, positive almost, you know?
07:59I'll not explain it.
08:00Like, maybe not towards people that don't deserve violence, but everyone deserves a little bit of violence, you know?
08:12I'm a fucking Marine.
08:14And, like, somebody has to do this job.
08:20I always thought about, like, standing up for bullies and stuff like that, so I just want to be as capable as I can when it comes to protecting whatever family I have someday.
08:28I think a lot of people hunger for purpose.
08:35And so I think that was a big draw for a lot of folks.
08:41It's not an easy life, but that's part of what's rewarding about it.
08:46You had to earn it.
08:50Range control, this is range 191.
08:53We have all 21 packs back up range and ready to roll.
08:57I am a machine gunner by trade, which, in my opinion, is a lot more fun, but currently scout sniper platoon sergeant.
09:09Oh, I see. We're good to start squeezing triggers.
09:19Scout snipers, they're very, like, ultra-proud and boastful of what they do and whatnot, and rightly so.
09:28These are very high-skilled, high-trained.
09:31There's an actual school-trained sniper.
09:33So all of our snipers had to do that.
09:36Impact.
09:37Boom.
09:38Nice.
09:39Nice.
09:40I grew up in the South.
09:42I taught special ed for a few years.
09:43That's where I met my wife.
09:45Wound up getting a job for, like, an industrial cleaner company.
09:49And we started having kids.
09:51So I got three young'uns, all girls.
09:53They're my little birds.
09:55And the job I was working at the time, the benefits plan was killing us.
10:00So the military had always been kind of interesting to me.
10:03I liked the camaraderie aspect.
10:07I was, from day one, the old man.
10:10I was 28.
10:12But virtually everybody I was in boot camp with were, like, 18.
10:15Five.
10:16But I find myself in a slightly different role now.
10:18Three, two.
10:21Don't mess on lunch real quick.
10:22I don't get to kick in doors and squeeze triggers as much anymore.
10:24Now I have to be, like, the dad to these fellas.
10:28Is this trigger pull not working?
10:29Yeah, something's wrong with the trigger.
10:31Traditionally, whenever somebody talks about hire,
10:34it's just whoever outranks you.
10:37My immediate hire is Lieutenant Miller.
10:39Thank you, ma'am.
10:40My name is Samantha Miller.
10:42I am currently serving in a scout platoon commander billet.
10:46All right.
10:47Time.
10:48Being a scout sniper platoon commander, I have a platoon consisting of 18 guys.
10:53They help gather information on the battlefield before the main force comes in to help shape some of the commander's decision-making.
11:01Make sure he gets the ears in.
11:05Everyone has ears in?
11:07Earprobe.
11:08Becoming a scout sniper platoon commander.
11:10I was nervous isn't the right word, but snipers are notoriously known as cowboys.
11:18And they have never had, you know, a woman who was a platoon commander.
11:22They've never even had a woman in their platoon.
11:24So just kind of slowly proving yourself.
11:28You as a leader, but also you as a Marine.
11:33It's more of like a friendship or a partnership, but ultimately the decision is hers.
11:39Militant, you done shooting?
11:42Simestry?
11:43Yeah.
11:44Everyone's done?
11:45All right.
11:46Line is cold!
11:49My role now with this platoon is that facilitator.
11:52Four for four.
11:53That rate's an attaboy.
11:55Hey, fellas, here's the mission.
11:57Y'all are the experts with all the schools.
11:59What do you need in order to make this happen?
12:02Trust yourself.
12:03Look inside.
12:04Listen to your heart.
12:06It'll guide you.
12:09Listen to your gate.
12:10Didn't guide that bullet, though.
12:11Dead guy.
12:12Five, four, three.
12:23Who I was before, I don't know, I was just some college kid from South Louisiana that
12:28was kind of dumb and getting into some dumb stuff.
12:31Who I am now, I just hope that I'm someone that people can rely on.
12:39Our mission set allows us to grab the ground guys, pick them up, insert them to a different
12:46landing zone, shoot guns, rockets.
12:48So I kind of do a mix of all of it.
12:51My name's Captain Jacob Rees, call sign Dad.
12:55Hey, the purpose of today is to just do an informal walk around of our aircraft.
12:59You get to talk to the pilots, the crew chiefs of both Hueys and Cobras.
13:03We're basically showing them the capabilities, limitations, how we would employ our aircraft as a weapon system.
13:09We're going to employ crew served weapons, we're going to get nose down on the target, and then just employ rockets, rockets, rockets, and then pull off.
13:17I was in the infantry for three years.
13:21Their job is very technical, but it's also way more physical.
13:26Now I'm using an aircraft as a weapon.
13:30While they're working out their actual muscles, I get to work out the brain muscles.
13:34Whenever we're talking about, like, how we're shooting these guided munitions, there's a few different ways that we can do it.
13:39Ultimately, we're using this thing right here.
13:41It's just a PlayStation controller, essentially, and we are able to track a target.
13:45That missile is going to track that laser to that target.
13:48Oh, bullshit.
13:58I guess what I will say is that different Marine Corps communities have different cultures.
14:03The infantry unit, they're paid to work out and hike and shoot guns and all that stuff, right?
14:11But fucking strong.
14:14Yeah, because you strike me as a jock a little bit.
14:17No, no.
14:18I think I'm a dork.
14:24But I don't know.
14:25I grew up around guns.
14:26I like guns.
14:27Like, you get to do that as a job, that's pretty sweet, right?
14:32But then you get older, right?
14:35And you start to see the impacts of what it means.
14:38Right now, I have Marines that work for me.
14:41What am I going to tell their parents?
14:44I didn't realize that until I started losing friends, because, unfortunately, I have.
14:49Okay?
14:51I think war can be romanticized.
14:54Hey, thanks for coming, buddy.
14:56I've never seen war.
14:57And, you know, like, I pray that I don't.
15:02Because whenever you pray for war, you know, you're not thinking of the Lance Corporals that are going to go in first and probably some of them may not come home.
15:13So I don't pray for war.
15:16But I do work in the off chance that it does happen to be able to make sure that we win, you know?
15:23I was able to grow up in a country that has allowed me the opportunities to believe what I wanted to believe, to have the friends that I wanted to have of all different walks of life, backgrounds, orientations, right?
15:45And just for that alone, I'll lay down my life for this country.
16:13Good afternoon, sir. The MU's form is ordered.
16:15Very well. Take your post.
16:16Aye, aye, sir.
16:18Upon receiving the command, form a school circle around me.
16:22Fill it out!
16:24I'm Colonel Chris Snead Sciocca, the commanding officer of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
16:30The 31st MU, at any given time, there's about 2,400 Marines in the MU.
16:36There's seven Marine Expeditionary Units. Three are in North Carolina, three of them are in California, and one is permanently forward deployed here on Okinawa.
16:45And that's unique for the 31st MU.
16:49Partnered with the Navy so we have our own mobility, we can get places and do things.
16:54You've got aviation, ground combat units, a command and control structure.
17:00They're all in one place under one commander, that's me.
17:04You can get your devices.
17:05I think so.
17:06Nothing special about me, as in Chris Snead Sciocca, but the commanding officer of the 31st MU is special.
17:12And people, especially Marines, you know, they want to believe in their leaders.
17:17They want a man of character, they want somebody that they can trust.
17:23They know that I'm making all the right decisions and I'm doing the right thing even when nobody's watching, especially when nobody's watching.
17:31Yeah, we've only got a few days left before we go out there.
17:34We have this much to do, and we've got about that much time.
17:38So every day counts, every minute counts.
17:42All right? Thank you.
17:43Attention on deck! Carry on.
17:49One, two, three, four!
17:50One, two, three, five!
17:51One, two, three, six!
17:54My experiences have taught me that you just have to spend the time and effort to conduct realistic training.
17:59Sir, you're ready.
18:00Hey, thanks.
18:01Hey, thanks, everybody. Take your seats, please.
18:05We've got about five days left before onload.
18:08So we spoke with the Navy. They're ready. They're waiting for us.
18:11We're going to immediately go right into CERT-X certification exercises.
18:17The CERT-X is this exercise with a scenario, about a week and a half of mission essential task-based training.
18:24So we're going to do a series of missions with role player that we have to fight.
18:31And they make it as realistic as possible.
18:34It's supposed to approximate war.
18:37Evaluators watch you, test you, and if you pass, you're certified to go in combat.
18:43I really need everybody's full and undivided attention.
18:47And if there ever really was a time to really lay it out on the line and, you know, leave it all on the playing field, as they say, this is definitely it.
18:55Got that?
18:56Yes, sir.
18:57All right.
19:00If we don't get certified, that's a big deal.
19:04And it would, frankly, have real consequences that would last a long time.
19:09There is no acceptable answer other than I have failed and this is my fault.
19:14The stakes literally could not be higher for this.
19:18There's just really not that much American combat power out here.
19:22So if something happens in one minute, it's no longer going to be about Surdex and it's going to be about the real thing.
19:29Okay.
19:30Thanks, everybody. Carry on.
19:31Let's go ahead. Don't leave any gear behind.
19:48Hey, guys, hold your hands up.
19:54Count.
19:55One, two, three, four.
19:58My name is Jack Wasik.
20:00I'm an infantry officer in charge of roughly 30 to 40 Marines.
20:04We're part of Alpha Raiders.
20:06I come from a, like, very strong military family.
20:09My dad was a Marine.
20:10My grandpa fought in World War II.
20:13My great-grandfather got a citizenship fighting in World War I in the Army.
20:17Being raised in the culture, just, it's what I always wanted to do.
20:21And this country has provided so much for me and my family, so definitely a way to give back and to serve.
20:26And if you're gonna, you know, join the military, you might as well join the toughest branch.
20:31We've got a boat transit planned for today to practice landings.
20:37And this is something that the MI requires.
20:41This is that last rehearsal before, hey, you're getting evaluated on this and you gotta prove that you can do it.
20:46However, we got hit with a brutal storm.
20:50Obviously, if we are on the water with the thunderstorms within five nautical miles, it's a dangerous situation.
20:56We're honestly just, like, standing by waiting to hear about that.
21:03I am tired of being wet, so coming back would not be that bad.
21:08But our job is to train every day to do some shit that nobody wants to do.
21:13And, like, that's cool to me. Like, that's fucking noble.
21:17If you're fucking not working towards anything, then what are you doing, all right?
21:23And I want to be the best leader I can.
21:27I want to be a section leader, man.
21:29I want to be in charge of an entire machine gun section.
21:32I want to keep morale up. Like, you guys are feeling down and shit.
21:35Like, just go and, like, relate with them, bullshit with them,
21:39and make it to where, I don't know, everything's a little bit more bearable, you know?
21:51It takes a lot of work to do these really tactically complex events well and safely.
21:58You have to accept the reality of this business.
22:01This is life and death stuff.
22:04Word coming down that three U.S. Marines have been killed,
22:08five others seriously injured in a military training accident.
22:12We are learning a Camp Pendleton Marine was killed last night
22:15in live-fire training on the base.
22:17Five Marines were killed when their helicopter went down
22:20during stormy weather late Tuesday night.
22:2260 Marines have died in training in the last five years.
22:31The training that the U.S. military does
22:33is meant to replicate the sensation of combat as closely as possible.
22:37You're dealing with extremely dangerous weapons, high explosives.
22:42I think when people sign up for the military,
22:46they're thinking this is the best military in the world,
22:49we'll be extremely well trained.
22:51But they're probably not thinking that they could get killed in training.
22:56I'm always thinking about the risks.
23:00Can I do this? Should I still do this?
23:02Is this worth it?
23:03And that's kind of the question that you're always asking.
23:05What do I really get out of this?
23:07What could go wrong?
23:08Hey, weapons, bring them in over there.
23:11When you take command of a unit, you're handed the unit's colors.
23:17It's battle flag.
23:19And once you get that flag, everything looks different
23:21because you are the one actually responsible.
23:25There is no, well, they said, you're they.
23:28All right, hey, weapons, listen up.
23:31All right, so we had weather break our way.
23:33What that means is we're gonna go out
23:35and we're gonna train a little bit more.
23:36All right?
23:38Rip that Raider flag, rip that Raider patch.
23:40It's because we do shit like this.
23:41All right, here we go.
23:42All right, here we go.
23:43All right, here we go.
23:44All right, here we go.
23:45All right, here we go.
23:46All right, here we go.
23:47All right, here we go.
23:48Honestly, I'm nervous.
23:53I can keep myself afloat, but I'm not the best swimmer, though.
24:13Right now, there's no conditions
24:14that are outright telling us that we can't do it,
24:17but it's important to continue to get the reps
24:18and be prepared before we set out on ship.
24:34Oh, shit.
24:36Oh, fuck it.
24:39Goddamn, son.
24:41There's rough out here, man.
24:43Woo-hoo!
24:44We're a boat company, so boats is our bread and butter.
24:47I think being out there on the water,
24:49getting comfortable with it,
24:50not even just, like, the repetition,
24:52like, actually the actual individual actions,
24:55just being comfortable being wet, you know?
24:57Ow!
24:58What the?
24:59Lay for the fall, lay for it!
25:00Lay for it!
25:01He smashed his face.
25:02He's bleeding.
25:03Fire hair puppy.
25:04How ya about the fire gun,
25:06you guys wanna put in there?
25:07Crack you and bring him here frequently.
25:08Suites your boots.
25:09Your boots are biting at this.
25:10We've cleared the ferry.
25:11滑in, making aobraoss.
25:12爷57 or Якri-boyfriend's a vessel ship?
25:14He smashed his face.
25:16He's bleeding.
25:22Link up with a safe boat.
25:23ESO, ESO, this is a patrol boat, V-5s.
25:26I got one Marine with a broken nose.
25:27We're going to pick up now.
25:28OK.
25:31You want to go down real quick?
25:32You doing all right, sir?
25:34I'm tracking ambulatory.
25:39We, like, hit that wave.
25:41And I came down right on top of his helmet,
25:43and just right on the helmet.
25:46Is it an engine that's coming?
25:48No.
25:49It's like that.
25:50Hell yeah.
25:51All right.
25:52My mom's on the trail.
25:55We're going to stay out.
25:56Stay with the group.
25:57We're going to take him into the boat basin,
25:58and then we'll return back out.
26:00Roger.
26:01So 1130, we're going to go fill up the ice chest.
26:141700, we will occupy the range.
26:161800, we have the range inspector.
26:18I'm assuming we're going to push out a copy of that to the guy.
26:21Yeah.
26:22So, yeah.
26:23Don't worry.
26:24You don't have to dedicate all that to memory just yet.
26:25Oh.
26:26Yeah.
26:27Alpha group back to the back, bro.
26:29Are you still going to be my partner?
26:30Uh...
26:31Oh, man.
26:32All right, are we still partners?
26:35What do you mean?
26:36Like, whoa, what's going on?
26:37I said, give me up!
26:38Yeah.
26:39Yeah, I don't know.
26:40I just don't feel like I fit in my generation whatsoever.
26:44My name is Logan Blake Cameron Roos.
26:46Uh, I'm 22 years old.
26:48And I was born and raised in a small town in Morris, Illinois.
26:51Just cornfields.
26:53But ever since I was young, I've always wanted to be a sniper.
26:57And I would be dressed up in camouflage and, like, playing war.
27:02You know, watching, like, movies about guys in ghillie suits
27:06and they're super far away, and they shoot somebody,
27:09and now everybody's scared.
27:13To me, I was like, that's the coolest thing ever
27:15is to be so dangerous and deadly.
27:19That's, like, what I wanted to do.
27:21You've wanted to kill people since you were a child?
27:24Yeah, I mean, like, I...
27:26With... without making it sound bad, uh, yeah.
27:32As a man, if you were a person
27:35who is capable of committing violence
27:38to protect others but don't,
27:40you were weak.
27:42I think you're a coward.
27:44And as a grown man,
27:46the more dangerous you are, the better.
27:49So how can I be the most dangerous dude as I can be?
27:54Get back.
27:55Pretty.
27:56I feel like what it is for me
27:57is I'm proving to myself that I can be a real man.
28:00So this chain, obviously, super wobbly,
28:05but you gotta get yourself in the right headspace.
28:10Think about this as a fucking guard post,
28:13and you just got a call over the radio
28:15from some fucking machine gunner
28:17saying he sees Saddam Hussein down there,
28:19and you have 60 seconds to shoot him.
28:21That's the mindset you need to have coming up here,
28:23that you're running up and shooting on demand.
28:25Cool?
28:29All right.
28:30Shooter, are you ready?
28:31Always ready.
28:33Booyah, you may begin.
28:36Go, go, go, go, shoot!
28:41Sylvesteri.
28:45Sylvesteri.
28:46Sylvesteri.
28:48You need more bullets.
28:49Sylvesteri.
28:50Missed rain gauge.
28:53You put the wrong dope in.
28:55Three, two, one.
28:59Impact.
29:01Goddamn.
29:0332.63 with some crazy junk going down.
29:07Some of these guys are brand new,
29:08but a commander expects their level of proficiency
29:11to be top tier, because if it's not,
29:14then there's no point in them to get on the boat.
29:17You may begin.
29:20Your hands missed up.
29:21All right.
29:22First timer.
29:25If you get this,
29:27I'll take you someplace nice.
29:29Candle lot.
29:30Hey, why are your fucking feet?
29:32Are you even looking at the right target?
29:34Yeah, Bruce.
29:36Miss.
29:37Five, four, three, two...
29:44Double miss.
29:45Goddamn.
29:46Head by, start somewhere.
29:54This is my first year
29:55being in the platoon itself in the community.
29:57Miller, what are you doing, dude?
30:00You gotta find it.
30:01Bruce, cut it.
30:05I thought that was the point.
30:06This was a gift to me from my aunt and my mom.
30:20My grandma passed away back in 2016,
30:22and this bear was actually made out of her pajamas.
30:28A lot of my buddies, you know,
30:29don't see, like, don't know the story,
30:30so they're like,
30:31you have a fucking teddy bear, you know?
30:32And they, like, make fun of it,
30:33but I don't care at all.
30:37Reminds me of not just my grandma,
30:39but the love I have back home.
30:41And this will be in my ruck if we go to war,
30:43wrapped up in plastic so it doesn't get wet and destroyed.
30:47.
30:55.
31:05.
31:08.
31:09.
31:10.
31:15Like, on shift, I heard it's very tight and confined space,
31:22but I don't have any problems with being, like, in tight space
31:25with my boys, you know, and it doesn't sound too bad to me.
31:28Hoping that I get to hit the gym as much as I want to hit it.
31:34I think it's gonna be fun.
31:37Let's go. Quit clogging up the hallway.
31:40If you're on the walking party, let's go!
31:45Which way? Which way?
31:47All right, we're moving.
31:52There are two ships that kind of make up our amphibianist readiness group.
31:55The America, it's a lot bigger.
31:58It's got a huge flight deck
32:00because they need a lot more aircraft to take off.
32:06It's also got a lot more higher-ups.
32:08It's where the command element is.
32:10America is the flagship of Amphibious Squadron 11.
32:16It's the primary airport. It's the primary hospital.
32:22And, uh, this is gonna be my home for the next couple months.
32:25It never gets old seeing these.
32:31It never does.
32:33The F-35 combines the capabilities of a reconnaissance plane
32:38with a bomber, with a strike aircraft.
32:40Pretty impressed with what they've crammed into this thing.
32:44And on the other hand, the Green Bay is a little bit smaller.
32:53The Green Bay is a ship that's been out floating for longer
32:56than almost any other current ship in the U.S. Navy.
33:00For the most part, it'll carry crunts, window lickers, door kickers,
33:03whatever you want to call them.
33:05So you're gonna make your way up.
33:07Again, do the proper procedures.
33:08Once you get there, you're gonna smooth and say,
33:10Permission to come aboard.
33:12Yeah.
33:13All right, get up there.
33:22All right.
33:24We're live.
33:25Good afternoon, Team Green Bay!
33:28This is CS1 Pennington,
33:30and this is the First Class News Network.
33:35Welcome to the Green Bay.
33:37We put Marines ashore.
33:39I am U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Angie Violante.
33:42I'm the executive officer on Green Bay.
33:46The executive officer is the number two on board.
33:49You've got the captain, and then there's me.
33:51Everything that happens on board, I try and keep a lid on it.
33:56That's my day-to-day.
33:58Underneath all that, though, is everything that's mission essential
34:02to get Marines ashore.
34:04The Green Bay is specifically designed to transport Marines
34:09and support their missions.
34:11Huge shout-out to all the Marines, right.
34:15We just left Okinawa.
34:17I was walking here.
34:19There's a lot of Marines in a limited space.
34:21Why is it so hot?
34:23Oh, it's so hot.
34:24Two people can't walk side-by-side.
34:27You have to, like, press your body, like, cronk in an emperor's new groove.
34:31What's going on?
34:32Excuse me.
34:33For all you Marines watching, if you've never been on a boat before, it's gonna test you physically, it's gonna test you mentally.
34:46Hey, Roos.
34:47Where's Roos?
34:48Hey.
34:49I'm a weirdo, so I like sleep in confined spaces.
34:53So I'm like, I'm cool with the little tiny racks, like the L-shaped racks.
34:58I'm like, ah, I'm fine with those.
35:03It is a sunless, moonless, skyless, oceanless nightmare of a prison.
35:10What's going on, y'all?
35:11Is this the L-fall?
35:12No, L-fall.
35:13It's not more.
35:14One more up.
35:15I told you!
35:16All you gotta do is go up.
35:17Easy way is you can tell the difference between a sailor and a Marine.
35:21I knew it.
35:22A sailor knows where they're going.
35:23A Marine is lost.
35:24Okay, come on, y'all.
35:25Oh, you're dying.
35:26What's going on, Chief?
35:27What's going on, Chief?
35:28Good morning.
35:29Good morning.
35:30Um...
35:31Hey, have you guys found a gym?
35:33I don't know.
35:34There's just a lot of, like, animosity sometimes between the Navy and the Marine Corps.
35:37So we look at them as a bunch of lazy guys, and they look at us as a bunch of knuckleheads that don't really think.
35:42I would've fucking blown them away.
35:44I think a big misconception is that Marines are dumb, and grunts especially are dumb.
35:48Uh-oh.
35:49But, like, you gotta be smart to be a grunt.
35:52Like, you gotta have...
35:55Like...
35:57What's the word for it?
36:00Fuck.
36:01Oh, my shoulders are mad at me for these.
36:04When the Navy set up the cardio room, they're like, no one's ever gonna touch this.
36:08Because none of our fucking guys are.
36:10The Marines like to, you know, say, we do this or we don't do that, we're fat.
36:14I think they're allowed, like, a third of their body weight to just be fat.
36:18Oh, my God.
36:19That's crazy.
36:20Not that they all are.
36:21Not that they all are.
36:23Awesome.
36:24But, I mean, pretty much all of them are.
36:26Thanks for advice.
36:27We're in charge of the mess fix, so anyone who's, uh, coming through to eat chow, when you go through the chow line, roll up your sleeves.
36:36Roll your sleeves up, man!
36:38Safety and sanitation, yeah.
36:40The Marines, the really only good thing that we're good for on board, honestly, is eating too much food.
36:46Appreciate it. Thank you very much.
36:48Taking up space, not showering.
36:51As soon as we left Okinawa, you could just smell the stench throughout the ship.
36:56It's very important to keep cleanliness on the ship, right?
36:59The last thing you want is for someone to have double dragon.
37:02If you've never heard of what double dragon is, I hope you never have to hear what it is.
37:06Imagine puking and shitting at the same time.
37:21A lot of times, young Marines, their understanding of things is their lived experience.
37:25And for folks that have been around the Marine Corps for a long time, right, that's rarely the way it occurs, right?
37:31The situation that we face out here is really dynamic.
37:34My name is Lieutenant General Turner, and I'm the third Marine Expedition Air Force Commander.
37:40I've had combat multiple times, and during most of my career, the U.S. was powerful enough that we could overwhelm almost any adversary.
37:49Our country and our forces haven't faced peer adversaries since the Second World War.
37:56The ranges of missions that they could be called on to do, some of these are very complex and would be extremely high stakes if they were actually executing these.
38:06Hey, good afternoon, everybody. How are you all doing? Good, good.
38:10Our job over the next two weeks is to evaluate your performance during CertX.
38:15CertX is a series of complex exercises or tests to certify the Force to be able to do the mission sets that we think are most relevant.
38:25Assuming they can meet all those things, we would actually certify them as ready to deploy.
38:30We're trying to stress you guys to prepare the 31st Mew for conflict against a peer adversary.
38:38We'll get a series of scenarios. We'll decide what to do about it, and we'll be evaluated on whether we made the right call, and then they'll evaluate how we do it.
38:47Game on. Game on, sir. Yeah.
38:49I think what's really important here is that everybody take it real seriously, but I want everybody to let me and the Commodore worry about the certification, all right?
38:55There's a lot of focus on Colonel Nisioka and his staff. How long this goes hinges on how well they perform during CertX.
39:03And not getting certified is a very real thing. So Colonel Nisioka, you could say, is in the hot seat.
39:10You know, if the unit fails to achieve something, then it's your responsibility.
39:15I want to clean CertX, execute well, execute cleanly. Remember what we're really here for.
39:19Be ready on the first night of the war, okay?
39:22Attention, not bad. Carry on.
39:36Shipmates, this is XO from the pilot house. Just a quick announcement. Mission today is ship to shore movement, which means we are close into land all day.
39:44We're already at 65% water. We're gonna have a limited ability to make any more throughout the day while we put the green team ashore. That is all.
39:55Okay, for mission overview, we'll be taking off today from the USS Green Bay.
39:59Supporter unit's gonna be Alpha Company. They're gonna have 18 boats with six bi-marines per boat.
40:03Whenever we go through these exercises, there's a bunch of things to get certified to be able to go out and execute any sort of mission.
40:12So today, we're working with Alpha Company, and we are there to set conditions for Alpha Company to land on this beach and maneuver from east to west through the beach and secure the objective.
40:36The mission is a combination of taking the boats, going from ship to shore. Then there's us, who is going to be used to basically protect their movement from ship to shore. And then once they land on shore, we are going to be in the overhead providing fires and looking forward just to clear their route.
40:54And Mockat-8-1, you can expect routing to a campaign transition at 1,000 feet. Mockat-8-1 copies all.
41:04I'll be small.
41:16Alfaro!
41:18Delay!
41:20Two more!
41:22Ulcer!
41:26It's the first step where we're actually launching
41:27from a Navy ship integrated with the Navy.
41:31We will take rubber boats in.
41:32We call them Crix.
41:33Typical boat raid, if it's real world,
41:35will be from over the horizon,
41:37so over 26 miles away, middle of the night.
41:39Crix is one way that you can take control of the beach
41:41and then post security to allow other forces to flow through.
41:44Launching the Crix, that's really pretty sketchy,
41:48especially in the ocean if you got swells coming in,
41:50and so the timing's gotta be right.
41:53The Navy, you know, they got the two flags,
41:55and he has a red flag and a green flag.
41:57So red flag means you're not gonna go.
41:59Then once he puts up the green flag,
42:01that means everyone's gonna go off.
42:04You gotta be careful, because if it's too big of a swell,
42:07it'll push the stern gate back up,
42:09and that little swell coming back in
42:11can put your crick up under the stern gate.
42:16Launching is actually super dangerous,
42:18because there's risk of a crick flipping,
42:20especially with some of the sea states.
42:22So I have to be prepared to send these Marines
42:24into a situation where they might die.
42:30Come on!
42:31Come on!
42:32Go, Sweet!
42:33Go!
42:34Go!
42:35Go!
42:36Go!
42:37Go!
42:38Go!
42:39Go!
42:40Go!
42:41Go!
42:42Go!
42:43Go!
42:44Go!
42:45Go!
42:46Go!
42:47Go!
42:48Go!
42:49Go!
42:50I'm about going that way!
42:51I'm about going that way!
42:53I'm about going that way!
42:56I'm about going that way!
43:02Alpha Company's role in the amphibious integrated training
43:04is to launch several nautical miles offshore,
43:07hit the beach, then seize that beach, destroy any enemy there,
43:10and retain it for follow-on forces.
43:12The FI is about 1,000 meters.
43:15Up north from our position, we have military down in the water.
43:18We're acting as the adversary force for the boat raid.
43:21Hey, ready to go!
43:22We are out to the east!
43:23Trying to give these guys a plan.
43:25As to what this would look like in real life
43:27if there were an enemy on the beach.
43:29Keep your eyes peeled, okay?
43:30Absolutely.
43:34Scout swimmers will ride with wave one
43:36to make sure there's no, like, obstacles, mines, anything like that.
43:39And then on the shore, make sure that there's no enemy there waiting for us.
43:46Scout swimmers come through.
43:48They'll set up for us to come in behind them.
43:51Every boat raid you do, you are very vulnerable.
43:54But it's an adrenaline rush like no other.
43:56Hey, we're in contact.
43:57We're in contact.
43:58We're in contact.
43:59We're in contact.
44:00Hey, you got fired, man.
44:01Don't move him.
44:02Hey, push to the wall.
44:03Push to the wall.
44:04Push to the wall.
44:05Push to the wall.
44:06Push to the wall.
44:07Push to the wall.
44:08Hey, third!
44:09Hey!
44:10Get to the fucking man.
44:11Go to the right side of the wall.
44:12Let's go, now!
44:13We don't have exact grid, but it's IVO 949250.
44:24We are approved routing and into the object barrier break.
44:28Bobcat 8-1, you are cleared to engage.
44:32All right, again, missing engagement.
44:36Red gun, no fire.
44:41All right, I'm coming off.
44:42Yeah, a little bit too close.
44:44Bobcat 8-1, Bobcat 8-1.
44:46I'm looking for immediate raid attack.
44:47Immediate raid attack.
44:48All right, we're coming around.
44:52Second left.
44:54Angel.
44:55Master on top.
44:56DBU-12 in the air.
45:01Splash.
45:0230 seconds.
45:06Enemy machine gun team with shoulder-launched weapon
45:10destroyed north of our position.
45:12Mission successful.
45:14You're approved to push out.
45:15Back to mission.
45:16All right, you guys all set?
45:17No, not 30.
45:19Not five.
45:21I'd say you guys are pretty fucking good.
45:26We're good.
45:27You're tired coming off the boat, right?
45:29So you're fighting for fighting to catch your breath.
45:31Slow it down.
45:32Okay, so there's the first thing.
45:33The second thing is,
45:34always have your RADS data in place at hand,
45:37especially when you're in this kind of environment.
45:41Thank you, sir.
45:42Appreciate you.
45:45Yeah, I mean, today we saw varying success.
45:48But it's gonna get progressively harder.
45:51The next time we do this,
45:52it's gonna be at night.
45:56Let me know when we have 19 souls
45:57and 200 pounds of shit on.
46:11Certification is rigorous
46:12because out here in the Western Pacific,
46:15things can accelerate really quickly.
46:18All it would take would be a new set of orders
46:21and all of a sudden,
46:22we go to a really, really dynamic situation.
46:27The world right now,
46:28it's an incredibly difficult time.
46:30A Chinese warship crossed the course
46:32of an American destroyer.
46:33The People's Republic of China,
46:35you know, they operate very aggressively here
46:37in the Pacific.
46:38Chinese fighter jets harassing U.S. military planes
46:41in intern...
46:42We see a major war in Europe
46:44for the first time in our lifetime
46:46with the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
46:48We see Iran using their proxies
46:50and creating problems across the Middle East.
46:53And then North Korea developing nuclear weapons
46:56to be able to range into the U.S. homeland.
46:59Things are very tense.
47:02You know, we have to be prepared at any point
47:05that if things were to escalate,
47:07the Marine Expeditionary Unit
47:09is ready to go to conflict
47:11pretty much anywhere in the whole world.
47:13It's like we have a friend off our port side.
47:23So, currently, there's a Chinese information
47:26collections vessel nearby tailing us.
47:30We are tracking their movements relative to ours.
47:34The chess game of all this
47:39is that neither side wants the consequences
47:41of full-blown war,
47:43but backing down
47:45does not put you in a position of safety, either.
47:48The risk calculus
47:50is incredibly complex.
47:52Look how close that guy is.
47:54That's crazy.
47:55The fuck are they doing?
47:57I'm ready for somebody to start a fight.
47:59There you go.
48:00Let's yell a lot.
48:02You're not really ever sure
48:05of what's gonna happen,
48:07but with tensions being so high,
48:09you know,
48:10it's only a matter of time
48:12before something does happen.
48:13You know, so I'm as ready as I can be.
48:15The issue is they're right behind us,
48:17and that's not ideal.
48:32it's not ideal than that.
48:33And it's even if you're trying,
48:35you really beneficial.
48:36To be honest,
48:38toese.
48:39the world is clearly first.
48:40What are the claims thoughts as something else?
48:42Come back,
48:43you really know.
48:44I toured?
48:45Look at the volumes of stripesince.
48:46What Irant are doing?
48:48different things I'm looking for
48:49are the proposals that quite eager forilee.
48:50What tool is available on earth?
48:52Which is awesome?
48:53And so you can get in the Liberia.
48:54your 모습 is probably trying to find out
48:56some bigï 1990s.
48:57If we keep organic,
48:58you can remember everything
49:00that loves it.
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