While I see a lot of passion in Eddie's responses at times that may come across a little aggresively (I don't mean that in any derogatory sense) I do agree with his sentiments.
It's all fine and well to say you should place your trust in the people you command so that they can step up to the task and prove themselves reliable but how do you actually establish that they can be trusted to be reliable?
You check on them, just like Eddie said.
On the issue of packing lists for equipment, I remember one NCO saying that packing lists were for the benefit of the Section (Squad in the US), not for the benefit of the individual. He went on to say something along the lines of (paraphrasing badly) "Sure you can pack your spare socks where ever the f*ck you want but your ammo better be in the same place as everyone else in case we need to grab it fast if you get your fool-arse killed"
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