1 00:00:03,937 --> 00:00:05,552 (men yelling) 2 00:00:05,552 --> 00:00:06,743 - [Michael] Squad attacks, you're focused 3 00:00:06,743 --> 00:00:09,566 on the squad leader and his employment of his squad. 4 00:00:09,566 --> 00:00:11,806 ^It shows a real transition from a junior leader 5 00:00:11,806 --> 00:00:13,326 ^or a junior marine who's just worried about 6 00:00:13,326 --> 00:00:16,592 ^his weapon system to an individual who's responsible 7 00:00:16,592 --> 00:00:19,327 for multiple lives, and successfully employing 8 00:00:19,327 --> 00:00:21,446 those marines and training those marines to accomplish 9 00:00:21,446 --> 00:00:23,446 his commander's mission. 10 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:26,705 The squad level, squad attacks build for everything 11 00:00:26,705 --> 00:00:27,689 that we do in the infantry. 12 00:00:27,689 --> 00:00:30,366 We start at the individual and team level, 13 00:00:30,366 --> 00:00:32,511 and then we build up to the squad level. 14 00:00:32,511 --> 00:00:34,991 (men yelling) 15 00:00:34,991 --> 00:00:37,309 - As long as the squad leader has a lot of faith 16 00:00:37,309 --> 00:00:38,519 ^in his team leaders, and his team leaders can 17 00:00:38,519 --> 00:00:41,766 ^do their jobs, squad attacks normally go pretty well. 18 00:00:41,766 --> 00:00:43,738 It really makes you feel good whenever your team leader 19 00:00:43,738 --> 00:00:46,101 knows what he's doing, and it puts a lot of confidence 20 00:00:46,101 --> 00:00:48,587 in your leadership that you have with your marines. 21 00:00:48,587 --> 00:00:50,514 It develops a lot of confidence in your leadership, 22 00:00:50,514 --> 00:00:52,762 whenever you can look back and you see your squad leader 23 00:00:52,762 --> 00:00:54,934 and he's running up to catch the squad, to make sure 24 00:00:54,934 --> 00:00:57,070 that everybody's running the right way. 25 00:00:57,070 --> 00:00:58,958 After this, I feel like we're gonna be pushing 26 00:00:58,958 --> 00:01:00,575 to bigger and better things, and that's just gonna 27 00:01:00,575 --> 00:01:03,908 keep us combat ready for the deployment.