This image draws is from Jonathan Daughtry’s concentric zones of wartime (in)audition. I adapt the zones with the Chamorro pictograph of i taotao (the person) at the center. Unlike Daughtry who has researched on how belliphonic[1] sounds have laid waste to wartime conflict zones in Iraq, where in that context, sound gives greater cause for imminant mortal danger, Guåhan and the Marianas have evaded “action” in the quintessential sense of what direct combat entails since WWII. Therefore, while zones of “wartime” audition could be considered applicable, I use the descriptor militarization to take into account the pre-emptive activities of “detterence”  that precede and overlap direct action such as how the various facilities on MCB Camp Blaz have created immersive and realistic combat scenarios.

[1] Jonathan J. Daughtry defines belliphonic as “The spectrum of sounds produced by armed conflict. The imagined total of sounds that would not have occurred had the conflict not taken place” (Daughtry 2015, 321).

In the Pacific Daily News May 19, 2025, Lt. General Robert Rasch stated in a Congressional hearing " [Senator] I believe we will be improving this capability forever. What general Rasch was referring to was the ongoing construction of the EIAMD (Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense System. Local communities in the island of Guam, located in the western Pacific region of Micronesia hear about these updates almost on a daily basis.