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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
It takes good NCOs (and good troops) to get that sorted out to the point where you can trust the troops to do their own thing.
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SF and CAG doesn't even do this. The packing list and the PCC/PCI layouts are a leader's best friend. Now what with SF and CAG being such a small percentage of the US Army (and equivalents in foreign militaries), an old adage that my Platoon Sergeant told me when I took command of my first platoon was, "Sir, anything you or I don't check, Joe forgot. Joe will f*ck us if we let him."
At first I was kinda upset at the lack of trust and the misunderstanding about who "us" was, but the first time I trusted Joe to play by big boy rules, it bit my platoon in the ass when we needed some BII for one of our 240s.
I don't know...maybe it's my background from my first unit, but I'm a firm believer in carrying everything on the packing list to the ORP and dropping rucks before you begin your assault.