WEBVTT 00:00.404 --> 00:03.154 (dramatic music) 00:20.939 --> 00:23.689 (dramatic music) 00:28.656 --> 00:31.637 - [Narrator] Marine Aviation Training Support Group 22, 00:31.637 --> 00:33.959 Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas 00:33.959 --> 00:36.008 provides administrative support to assigned units 00:36.008 --> 00:39.198 and advocates for policies, requirements, 00:39.198 --> 00:41.168 and standards for the training of Marines 00:41.168 --> 00:43.557 in aviation and other specialties. 00:43.557 --> 00:46.204 Marine Aviation Training Support Group 22 00:46.204 --> 00:50.040 provides direct support for two training air wings. 00:50.040 --> 00:52.314 Training air wing two, Naval Air Station, 00:52.314 --> 00:54.392 Kingsville, Texas, trains Marines 00:54.392 --> 00:57.453 in the military occupational specialties of 00:57.453 --> 00:59.370 ^7507 Basic AV-8B Pilot, 01:01.889 --> 01:03.806 ^7516 Basic F-35B Pilot, 01:06.527 --> 01:09.777 ^and 7521 Basic F/A-18 Pilot. 01:10.606 --> 01:13.277 And training air wing four Naval Air Station, 01:13.277 --> 01:15.287 Corpus Christi, Texas trains Marines 01:15.287 --> 01:18.204 in the military occupational specialties of 01:18.204 --> 01:20.037 ^7531 Basic MV-22 Pilot 01:22.612 --> 01:24.445 ^and 7556 KC-130 Pilot. 01:26.904 --> 01:29.763 Marine Aviation Training Support Group 22 01:29.763 --> 01:33.523 also provides oversight for Marine Corp Detachment 01:33.523 --> 01:36.303 Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Texas 01:36.303 --> 01:38.918 provides entry level and skills progression training 01:38.918 --> 01:41.788 for enlisted personnel in the Military Police, 01:41.788 --> 01:45.455 Military Working Dog Handler, Kennel Master, 01:45.863 --> 01:49.049 Traffic Management, Accident Investigation, 01:49.049 --> 01:53.049 Corrections and Contracting occupational fields. 01:53.147 --> 01:56.306 Marine Corp Detachment Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas 01:56.306 --> 01:59.171 provides entry level and skills progression training 01:59.171 --> 02:01.586 for enlisted and warrant officer personnel 02:01.586 --> 02:04.650 in the Intelligence, Linguist, Cryptologic 02:04.650 --> 02:07.600 and Firefighter occupational fields. 02:07.600 --> 02:11.767 Marine Corp representative 558 Flying Training Squadron 02:12.064 --> 02:14.748 represents Marine Corp and Training Command interests 02:14.748 --> 02:18.608 in undergraduate, remotely piloted aircraft training 02:18.608 --> 02:20.890 and provides support to Marine Officers 02:20.890 --> 02:24.473 qualifying as unmanned aircraft commanders. 02:24.475 --> 02:27.835 And Marine Corp Detachment Fort Huachuca, Arizona 02:27.835 --> 02:30.915 provides entry, intermediate and advanced training 02:30.915 --> 02:34.298 for intelligence and unmanned Aircraft System Operators 02:34.298 --> 02:35.631 and maintainers. 02:37.649 --> 02:39.039 - My name is Captain Shelby Gawdy. 02:39.039 --> 02:40.873 - Staff Sergeant Vincent Columbo. 02:40.873 --> 02:42.472 - Staff Sergeant Matthew Enderton. 02:42.472 --> 02:44.204 - I'm a primary school flight instructor. 02:44.204 --> 02:45.989 - I'm a DoD fire instructor. 02:45.989 --> 02:47.795 - I'm the senior unmanned Aircraft 02:47.795 --> 02:49.410 Systems Instructor Operator. 02:49.410 --> 02:52.256 - Here at Marine Aviation Training Support Group 22 02:52.256 --> 02:53.718 in NAS, Corpus Christi. 02:53.718 --> 02:55.940 - Marine Corp Detachment, Goodfellow Air Force Base, 02:55.940 --> 02:57.119 San Angelo, Texas. 02:57.119 --> 03:00.977 - For UAS Training Battalion, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. 03:00.977 --> 03:03.896 ^- The mission on that zig 22 is to train future 03:03.896 --> 03:04.747 ^naval aviators. 03:04.747 --> 03:06.955 They're usually Navy and marine corp officers 03:06.955 --> 03:09.322 and they're gonna go out and support the MAGTEF. 03:09.322 --> 03:11.099 When a marine officer shows us to flight school, 03:11.099 --> 03:13.727 they can expect a full blown fire hose effect. 03:13.727 --> 03:15.409 They really got the gambit of options 03:15.409 --> 03:17.593 as far as training aids and devices. 03:17.593 --> 03:19.912 They start in the classroom like you said 03:19.912 --> 03:22.729 then following that, there's computer-aided instruction, 03:22.729 --> 03:24.448 static trainers, so they can go in 03:24.448 --> 03:25.510 and practice their checklist 03:25.510 --> 03:27.300 as if they're really in the cockpit 03:27.300 --> 03:30.307 and then full blown motion simulators 03:30.307 --> 03:32.155 before they get in the air crafts. 03:32.155 --> 03:33.424 Students in the primary syllabus 03:33.424 --> 03:36.199 typically get about 72 hours in the plane 03:36.199 --> 03:38.199 and 45 in the simulator. 03:38.228 --> 03:41.556 Majority of what they do is gonna be without oversight 03:41.556 --> 03:44.064 and all I can do is mentor them and lead them 03:44.064 --> 03:46.756 and set an example for them to follow 03:46.756 --> 03:49.338 'cause really, we're the first example that they see. 03:49.338 --> 03:50.922 They've come straight from TBS 03:50.922 --> 03:53.075 and now they're exposed to all these 03:53.075 --> 03:55.772 naval pilots and we need to be that 03:55.772 --> 03:57.337 marine officer that's representative 03:57.337 --> 04:00.010 of the rest of the marine officers in the core. 04:00.010 --> 04:01.485 I wanna see if they're capable of flying this air craft 04:01.485 --> 04:02.874 but I also wanna hold them to the standard 04:02.874 --> 04:04.317 of a marine officer first. 04:04.317 --> 04:07.503 So it's crawl, walk, run at its finest. 04:07.503 --> 04:09.123 Marine aviation is just one of the four facets 04:09.123 --> 04:10.672 that makes up a MAGTEF. 04:10.672 --> 04:11.505 They're gonna go out 04:11.505 --> 04:12.706 and they're gonna be the air craft commander 04:12.706 --> 04:14.324 and have marines on board 04:14.324 --> 04:15.294 or they're gonna go out 04:15.294 --> 04:18.067 and own the fighter that they're flying 04:18.067 --> 04:20.122 and be supporting those guys on the ground 04:20.122 --> 04:22.041 and they need to be able to make real time 04:22.041 --> 04:24.787 game time decisions that are gonna impact 04:24.787 --> 04:27.830 the GCE to LCE, whoever they're supporting. 04:27.830 --> 04:29.769 It really enables them to get out there 04:29.769 --> 04:31.205 and reach your objective 04:31.205 --> 04:33.479 to attack the enemy's critical vulnerabilities 04:33.479 --> 04:36.529 and attack their weaknesses and really just 04:36.529 --> 04:39.542 allow the marine corps to function autonomously 04:39.542 --> 04:42.612 as opposed to the Army and the Air Force. 04:42.612 --> 04:44.594 ^- So our mission here at the fire academy is to take 04:44.594 --> 04:46.905 ^all DOD personnel, especially our marines, 04:46.905 --> 04:48.589 and take them from the basic 04:48.589 --> 04:50.575 boot camp and MCT-trained marine 04:50.575 --> 04:54.742 and turn him into full-fleet firefighting personnel. 04:54.937 --> 04:56.395 So the way that we train our marines 04:56.395 --> 04:58.978 is through 68 days of training. 04:59.257 --> 05:02.141 We'll do anything from search to ventilation 05:02.141 --> 05:03.911 to actual fire suppression, 05:03.911 --> 05:05.747 all to set them up for what they'll be doing 05:05.747 --> 05:07.570 in the fleet in any type of scenario 05:07.570 --> 05:10.237 both in the states and overseas. 05:10.538 --> 05:13.605 We'll have academic tests, lecture periods, 05:13.605 --> 05:15.097 performance-based objectives, 05:15.097 --> 05:17.055 and then we'll actually evaluate them on it. 05:17.055 --> 05:18.439 Any search trainer that we have 05:18.439 --> 05:20.983 or any aircraft that we have, we can fill them with 05:20.983 --> 05:23.171 smoke machines to give it a little more real-world 05:23.171 --> 05:24.835 scenario type feel to it. 05:24.835 --> 05:26.485 We light the trainers on fire 05:26.485 --> 05:27.363 and we're gonna have them try and fight 05:27.363 --> 05:29.743 in the same methods that we use in the fleet. 05:29.743 --> 05:31.312 We're turning them into emergency rescue 05:31.312 --> 05:33.203 and firefighting marines. 05:33.203 --> 05:34.845 Marine concept first, they're a marine first, 05:34.845 --> 05:37.598 but we need them to know how to fight their fires. 05:37.598 --> 05:39.673 We have air fields all over the United States 05:39.673 --> 05:42.118 and other countries that we have to maintain. 05:42.118 --> 05:44.387 Without us, the air field's gonna be shut down. 05:44.387 --> 05:46.529 We have to have some type of fire suppressions. 05:46.529 --> 05:47.403 We have no fire suppression, 05:47.403 --> 05:48.584 we have no flights that can go. 05:48.584 --> 05:50.496 We have things like munitions, 05:50.496 --> 05:51.637 the fuel, hydraulic fluid, 05:51.637 --> 05:53.110 anything that can be found on an aircraft 05:53.110 --> 05:55.170 if anything were to pop off like that, 05:55.170 --> 05:56.262 then it's not a safe environment 05:56.262 --> 05:57.218 for any of our other marines 05:57.218 --> 06:00.069 to go ahead and actually conduct their mission. 06:00.069 --> 06:01.156 Some of the marines are 06:01.156 --> 06:02.590 going to be three months or less removed 06:02.590 --> 06:04.265 before they actually get to deploy. 06:04.265 --> 06:05.636 So we have to teach them the basics here 06:05.636 --> 06:06.752 so they can revert back to it 06:06.752 --> 06:08.920 almost like that muscle memory type factor. 06:08.920 --> 06:10.771 So as soon as they get to the real world, 06:10.771 --> 06:12.650 something pops off for the first time, 06:12.650 --> 06:14.150 for the real deal, 06:14.294 --> 06:16.932 they know exactly what they're trying to do. 06:16.932 --> 06:18.236 We're taking these baseline marines 06:18.236 --> 06:19.857 and we're turning them into 06:19.857 --> 06:21.813 the Emergency Fire and Rescue Service. 06:21.813 --> 06:24.480 That's exactly what we're doing. 06:24.583 --> 06:26.140 ^- The mission of the UAS schoolhouse here 06:26.140 --> 06:28.541 ^with Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is to provide 06:28.541 --> 06:31.216 entry-level training for perspective 06:31.216 --> 06:33.576 unmanned aircraft commanders, UAS operators, 06:33.576 --> 06:36.294 and maintainers for the operational forces. 06:36.294 --> 06:38.212 It's a mixture of classroom instruction 06:38.212 --> 06:40.379 and practical application. 06:40.830 --> 06:43.679 Our students normally start at FA Ground School 06:43.679 --> 06:45.532 where they then progress to the simulators 06:45.532 --> 06:47.874 and then finally, onto the flight line 06:47.874 --> 06:49.874 for actual live flights. 06:50.425 --> 06:53.392 The systems that we use during practical application 06:53.392 --> 06:56.642 are universal mission simulator, or UMS 06:57.515 --> 07:00.524 as just a direct replica of the actual 07:00.524 --> 07:02.234 ground control stations that we use to fly 07:02.234 --> 07:03.401 real aircraft. 07:04.259 --> 07:06.070 So our scenarios are very dynamic 07:06.070 --> 07:08.134 as the instructors can add or take away 07:08.134 --> 07:09.830 from the various scenarios 07:09.830 --> 07:11.583 that we run the marines and soldiers through. 07:11.583 --> 07:14.166 It causes them to problem solve 07:14.728 --> 07:18.895 and crew coordinate, utilizing good crew resource management 07:19.205 --> 07:20.622 as that air crew. 07:21.907 --> 07:24.667 We're brand new, so we're pioneering a lot of things 07:24.667 --> 07:27.051 with regards to unmanned aircraft systems 07:27.051 --> 07:29.100 and how the MAGTEF is going to employ them. 07:29.100 --> 07:31.897 And because it's so new, I think that 07:31.897 --> 07:32.781 a lot of our customers, 07:32.781 --> 07:33.982 whether it's the ground combat element 07:33.982 --> 07:35.546 or the air combat element 07:35.546 --> 07:37.680 or even the logistics combat element 07:37.680 --> 07:41.048 are unaware of what assets we can bring to the fight. 07:41.048 --> 07:42.282 Primary being intelligence, 07:42.282 --> 07:45.377 surveillance, and reconnaissance from aerial platform. 07:45.377 --> 07:48.609 Developing the situation on the battlefield. 07:48.609 --> 07:51.095 We are in a joint environment so therefore, 07:51.095 --> 07:53.800 we do stand out as we hold ourselves a cut above 07:53.800 --> 07:55.566 and to that higher standard. 07:55.566 --> 07:56.787 You know, if you wanna be precise, 07:56.787 --> 07:58.329 you must practice precision 07:58.329 --> 08:00.677 and just meeting the standard is not okay. 08:00.677 --> 08:03.177 We are here to meet and exceed 08:03.573 --> 08:05.323 that standard by far.