 whether it's a 5, 8, 10-man team, as long as they got a radio and we can hail them on the right frequency, we can show up and conduct close air support for them. My name is Major Andrew Wing, my call sign's Hammer, and I am a AH-1Z Cobra pilot and I'm currently the Operations Officer at HMLA 775. The benefits that we get from this training specifically, it enables us to employ ordinance that we aren't able to employ all the time at Kent Pendleton. The work that we do here supports the ground combat element or GCE by ensuring that we are well equipped to go out and conduct close air support should it be required in any tactical scenarios. Close air support is arguably the bread and butter of the HMLA, although we have a range of mission essential tasks. The ranges here just north of El Centro are well set up to conduct that close air support training. This training event enables us to kind of flex the muscles of our scenario development and put ourselves in some intentionally uncomfortable mission sets that we have to be creative and conduct a mission that might be a bit more dynamic than once that we normally get to train on. My favorite part of the training is just getting such a good group of people that combines a range of active duty, active reserve personnel. It allows us to take 775 at its best combining those different Marines who make up our unit. It enables us to demonstrate the most valuable employment of a reserve unit.