WEBVTT 00:00.090 --> 00:01.870 (crickets) 00:01.870 --> 00:03.550 - First line division made a requirement 00:03.550 --> 00:07.070 in early 2017 for all infantry units. 00:07.070 --> 00:09.110 To conduct night live fire training up 00:09.110 --> 00:11.170 through the platoon level with the goal of getting 00:11.170 --> 00:12.380 to the company level. 00:12.380 --> 00:15.020 We've noticed some operational gaps in the past. 00:15.020 --> 00:18.429 And we can't surrender the night time to the enemy. 00:18.429 --> 00:19.725 - And the course that we offer here is 00:19.725 --> 00:23.410 a night vision device operators course. 00:23.410 --> 00:27.460 It was born out of the ACE, the Aviation Combats Elements, 00:27.460 --> 00:29.710 night vision style teaching. 00:29.710 --> 00:32.090 That they go through with a eight hour course. 00:32.090 --> 00:33.890 Where they learn the ins and the outs of how 00:33.890 --> 00:35.970 to use their sensor at night and some 00:35.970 --> 00:38.070 of the best and worst conditions. 00:38.070 --> 00:39.960 This course is meant to give them some sort 00:39.960 --> 00:41.360 of standardized training. 00:41.360 --> 00:43.996 Something we have seen of late is that 00:43.996 --> 00:47.130 the GC currently doesn't have anything that's equivalent 00:47.130 --> 00:50.080 to the ACE in terms of how do I use this. 00:50.080 --> 00:52.220 How do I operationally check this? 00:52.220 --> 00:55.390 How do I focus this MVD to the gold standard? 00:55.390 --> 00:57.261 So this course was born out of that. 00:57.261 --> 01:00.161 It was meant to fulfill the need of standardized training. 01:01.250 --> 01:02.660 - And so when we started peeling back 01:02.660 --> 01:04.940 what we were doing as far as training and education 01:04.940 --> 01:06.460 for night vision devices. 01:06.460 --> 01:08.530 We noticed that there were some deficiencies, 01:08.530 --> 01:10.310 both at formal instruction 01:10.310 --> 01:11.720 and what was being done (mumbles). 01:11.720 --> 01:14.500 so we kinda looked around to see what right looked like. 01:14.500 --> 01:16.370 And MAG-39 had this night lab 01:16.370 --> 01:18.410 with an operational physiology. 01:18.410 --> 01:20.530 And so we talked to them, asked for some assistance. 01:20.530 --> 01:22.320 And once we seen their product. 01:22.320 --> 01:24.440 We said hey we need to replicate that. 01:24.440 --> 01:28.440 We need that capability inherent inside a division. 01:28.440 --> 01:30.810 If you look across the Marine Corp 01:30.810 --> 01:32.190 and our capabilities right now. 01:32.190 --> 01:34.130 Man mounted equipment is becoming more 01:34.130 --> 01:35.200 and more prevalent, right? 01:35.200 --> 01:36.940 We want that to be able to give the edge 01:36.940 --> 01:38.064 to our war fighters. 01:38.064 --> 01:40.375 And if you don't know how to use the devices, 01:40.375 --> 01:44.870 then you can't, you loose capability with all 01:44.870 --> 01:46.360 this expensive equipment. 01:46.360 --> 01:48.511 - Currently there's nobody else in the Marine Corp 01:48.511 --> 01:50.720 who's able to provide this kind of training. 01:50.720 --> 01:51.553 We have the access. 01:51.553 --> 01:54.010 We have other operational physiologists. 01:54.010 --> 01:56.703 But First line Div is really, they're leading the way 01:56.703 --> 01:58.287 for this kind of training. 01:58.287 --> 02:00.300 And it's big to the mission because without a course 02:00.300 --> 02:02.740 like this you get a Marine Corps that has 02:02.740 --> 02:04.450 a very high mishap rate. 02:04.450 --> 02:08.620 As these devices get more complicated we can loose sight 02:08.620 --> 02:10.060 of just the fundamentals. 02:10.060 --> 02:10.940 How do you focus this? 02:10.940 --> 02:12.890 How can we understand the environment. 02:12.890 --> 02:14.770 What it's doing for us, the illumination, 02:14.770 --> 02:17.584 the contrast, the obscurance. 02:17.584 --> 02:20.650 If you don't understand the basics then 02:20.650 --> 02:22.800 you're loosing sight of the entire mission.