This subreddit is geared toward the United States Army, but all are welcome to join regardless of military service. I'm not in intel anymore, but when I was, I made sure that if my analysis wasn't solid, I stated so.Weekly Question Thread Recruiter Thread Welcome to /r/army Commander gets canned, and I got a bunch of dudes killed because I just robotically put up the only info I'd been given. Raid goes out that night, it was a trap, our source had been turned, the whole building blows up and takes out a platoon of Rangers. Same scenario, except instead of qualifying, I just put up a slide that says 'Intelligence says bad guy here' with a big X on his house. So I would tell the commander 'we have limited intelligence that he might be at this location, but it hasn't been confirmed.' The commander asks about the source, I let him know why I qualified that statement, he decides to wait for confirmation from other sources. But the commander wants to know where this guy is.

The humint source is 'meh' and has been known to make stuff up. We have intel from a human source that a bad guy we've been looking for lives in this house next to a mosque. Nah dude, that isn't how the world works. Especially when it comes to religion or politics.Īs I'm still busting tape, I'll take a cup of water, extra ice, a large BLT, and a bag of those salt and vinegar chips. Don't make me wonder what your 'understanding of' something is.Īlso, take a second or two to confirm some of those deeply held assumptions you have. Stop undermining yourself with qualifiers like 'based on my limited understanding of militant Pastafarianism HVT Linguini's MCOA will be to avoid eating at Pizza Hut'.Įither confirm your assumptions, or just tell me the MCOA (in the above example). You get it right and all you get is a handshake, but you get it wrong your career can get smoked.

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