 This pilot makes it look easy, but it takes hundreds of Marines working together to get these fighter jets off the ground and to their targets We're on deployment right now. So we're usually pretty busy during the day We try to have the jets armed and safe before the pilots get here It's our job to make sure that they're ready to go and ready to drop their ordinance 4,000 pounds of ordinance a lot of responsibility for young Marines some new to the core and some younger than the bombs They're loading March but professionalism and teamwork help them keep the mission going me being a senior Marine on the crew It's my job to look out for them and make sure they're okay And make sure they have the knowledge that they need to be able to perform efficiently on the flight line and not get hurt with Fighter jets coming and going and flapping the pace can seem frantic to an outsider But this is just preparation for the coming surge Four days of 24-hour non-stop operations with all three squadrons which make up Marine aircraft group 12 The opportunity to come down here and apply pressure to this system to test ourselves And to see how ready we are for combat where those weaknesses are is that we can correct is really Unprecedented and is it a golden opportunity for us to come down here in the sunny skies and Guam great training ranges and practice our craft and Get some learning points from it so we can go back and correct and increase our readiness It's big machine We we all have a part to play and if one one piece of the puzzle falls apart then it won't work And if everything goes right we save Marines on the ground Everything we do is for them to protect the rifleman on the ground Which it's why it's easy to see why Marines here take their training so seriously Increased readiness and improved combat power generation of mag 12 is what exercise Geiger fury 2012 is all about Marine Staff Sergeant Jason Price Anderson Air Force Base Guam