11-30-2015, 05:04 PM
I was in Alwarren's team for the infamous Ammo Run mission. I heard the orders, but imho crux of issue isn't he said-he said but how to improve. There can be lot of reasons. Accidental SR instead of LR, TS lag, alignment of Zeta Reticuli. I've often witnessed that part of the message is just cut off. I've been to tough missions under Den and Alwarren both and I have absolutely no hesitation to follow either gentleman to new improved disasters.
Mission itself was a stress test for the leaders blood pressure. I think Alwarren did very good job with a sound plan. Several teams scattered in map, vehicles to micromanage, night, no NVGs. Even in good conditions this would have been a tough one and now we had vehicle taken wrong turn, ambush, and lot of confusion. Alpha also had few stressing moments on the hillside.
Human nature is that when things starts to go wrong and there's confusion, people get more on edge and it is easier to assume than to get confirmation from a grumpy leader. This isn't related to this mission, but in general. That is also the moment when things easily starts to spiral to worse.
Confirming order, even with a single extra word, is often much better than simple 'copy'. For example: 'Copy, holding'. 'Copy, suppressing', tells that the target has gotten the general idea. I know it feels silly to talk to radio like Joe Pescis parrot imitating Generation Kill but it really helps especially in non-trivial communications.Â
Mission itself was a stress test for the leaders blood pressure. I think Alwarren did very good job with a sound plan. Several teams scattered in map, vehicles to micromanage, night, no NVGs. Even in good conditions this would have been a tough one and now we had vehicle taken wrong turn, ambush, and lot of confusion. Alpha also had few stressing moments on the hillside.
Human nature is that when things starts to go wrong and there's confusion, people get more on edge and it is easier to assume than to get confirmation from a grumpy leader. This isn't related to this mission, but in general. That is also the moment when things easily starts to spiral to worse.
Confirming order, even with a single extra word, is often much better than simple 'copy'. For example: 'Copy, holding'. 'Copy, suppressing', tells that the target has gotten the general idea. I know it feels silly to talk to radio like Joe Pescis parrot imitating Generation Kill but it really helps especially in non-trivial communications.Â