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Originally Posted by mffjm8509
It is an odd operational environment, and one we dont train guys to operate in at the school house.
mp
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Actually we were training the BN & Group Cdrs to just this during their pre-commanders course. I wrote the exercise and it opened up just the complications you describe. Unfortunately the organization for whom I worked evidently became too expensive for SWC and they dropped that part of the program. Other areas that have fallen on their butt over the years is the system within TRADOC called the DRAG (Doctrinal Review and AnalysisGroup) where all the commandants from each school were forced to sit in front of the TRADOC commander and have thier doctrinal publications dragged before each of the other branches for review and integration into the army doctrinal publications so that each one knew what the other brought to the battlefield. It is my understanding that this also has stopped. When I was doing this stuff as the SWC DOTD we were in a constant retraining mode for all the other branches and I spent more time on the road than I would like to remember-especially back and forth to Huachuca to get them to recognize our unique requirements and train their folks in the specific needs for SOF targeting and intel so that when we where working within their areas of interest they could at least support our requirements. From reading what you have written and from what I have gathered it seems like all this accomplished was to drain down the TDY account.
Jack Moroney