Marine Combat Pilot Training: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 49: | Line 49: | ||
==''PHASE RED and Graduation''== | ==''PHASE RED and Graduation''== | ||
Phase red consists of a series of live-fire excersizes and grueling cognitive command and control testing, to show whether or not the | Phase red consists of a series of live-fire excersizes and grueling cognitive command and control testing, to show whether or not the Marine is qualified for the field. This series of exercises takes appoximately 2 weeks to complete, divided into four exercises or mission that Pilots must participate in with their assigned teams. | ||
*'''SCENARIO 1''': Operation Shielded Beast - This scenario runs the gauntlet of protecting a mother vessel from an unknown | *'''SCENARIO 1''': Operation Shielded Beast - This scenario runs the gauntlet of protecting a mother vessel from an unknown force of fighters. Units must identify the hostile threat, formulate an action plan, and neutralize the threat. This can occur at any point during a three day patrol of Earth Sector 49. | ||
*'''SCENARIO 2''': Operation Guided Force - This scenario will test the pilot's abilities in reconnoitering, planning and executing a strategic bombing run against simulated planet-side enemies. This will require two full days to complete. | |||
CP's then become ROP's or regular officer pilots. ROP's are considered officers as they have already met the requirements as commissioned officers prior to being selected for the academy. | *'''SCENARIO 3''': Operation Spartan - This scenario pits pilots against a simulated hostile mother ship, and associated support vessels. Students must destroy all objectives. This mission typically takes 2 days to complete. | ||
*'''SCENARIO 4''': Operation Overlord - This scenario is often completed in conjunction with to-be-graduating Marines of the ground element. The class will be divided into Bomber, landing craft, and figher support groups that will perform functions such as carrying in multiple divisions of ground-based marines, perform supressive bombing manuevers, and destroying key targets in a simulated planet-toid invasion of an enemy city. This is considered the mother of all scenarios in training, and requires about a week to complete. | |||
All students have records of their performance in these scenarios, and they are all taken into a count at the end. Based on their performance, students will either pass, or retrain. At any time during the program, a candidate may chose to drop. | |||
At the end of their CAP-A experience, CP's then become ROP's or regular officer pilots. ROP's are considered officers as they have already met the requirements as commissioned officers prior to being selected for the academy. By now, candidate has gained enough experience and expertise to move on to graduation day from MADO, and the pinning of a traditional set of wings to their class A uniform. From here, pilots are then assigned to their receiving Air Group. | |||