There is always time for the TLPs. And an OP is a combat mission in and of itself. You haven't had a chance to download mission-essential items from stepping off of that bird. Maybe you have to put stuff back on and readjust, but you haven't turned anything in yet.
Quite honestly, I know that I couldn't operate the way you're describing. I don't know if it's something unique to your unit, or if it's a Brit Army-wide practice, but if one of my PLs was running his PLT that way, I'd have his ass standing before the BC recommending a job on the staff.
Nothing sucks worse than to seize an OBJ, capture the HVI, and then have your RTO tell you that the batteries in the camera are dead, no pictures for the prosecutors this time. That happened to one of my peers during my deployment. Any leader that doesn't check that stuff out is not doing his job.
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