CH-53E Super Stallion MCAS MIRAMAR, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

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U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Daniel Bober, a CH-53E Super Stallion pilot with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 465, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, discusses the importance of maintaining military discipline and standards on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, July 17, 2025. Operation Ironclad is a I Marine Expeditionary Force initiative that emphasizes how individual proficiency, personal discipline, and unit cohesion lead to victory on the battlefield.

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00:01Everybody that walks through that turnstile is a professional.

00:04I'm Captain Daniel Bover. I'm a CH-53 Echo pilot with HMH-465 War Horse.

00:10Everybody here is a Marine, and this point is sort of the foundational expectation of a Marine.

00:17I think that when a lot of times we hear standards in the Marine Corps,

00:20everybody's mindset immediately jumps to haircuts, mustaches, uniform regulations,

00:25which may be built into it, but I think the big part of it is that standards

00:29and standardization is just a common value system,

00:33and that's what we use to define ourselves, and it's what we use to do our jobs.

00:37And if you don't have a standard for who you're supposed to be or how you're supposed to behave,

00:41then you're not really a part of anything.

00:43It's not just about the superficial things, but it's about the culture and the ethics of being in the Marine Corps.

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