No details spared training Marines to secure embassies during Steel Knight exercise at Camp...

The annual large-scale training event titled Steel Knight took place at Camp Pendleton on Wednesday. It involved Marines with the 1st Marine Division and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, who conducted a simulated embassy reinforcement drill.

From the surround-sound speaker system to the rusty props, fake food courts and actors speaking different languages, no detail is spared for the combat town training facility.

Especially not the MV-22B Ospreys flying in Marines from Yuma, Arizona, for the specific potential scenario involving securing an embassy compound and rescuing its American dignitaries, for example.

"We don’t know when we will have to be called upon. The Marine Corps, we like to call ourselves America's 911 force. So being ready, most ready when the nation is least ready, is kind of the Marine Corps thing,” said 2nd Lt. Austin Dickey with the Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.

Immersing the troops in a different environment is the goal. One they could very likely find themselves in.

“Back in 2000, I was a lieutenant and a captain training a lot like the guys in the aircraft. We’re not thinking that I would go anywhere. Next thing you know we are doing Operation Iraqi Freedom,” said Jeremie Hester, a commanding officer of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing based at Camp Pendleton.

For Steel Knight, they're hearsing down to the very detail.