its funny how on some field problems soldiers will adopt procedures that while they are actually doctrine, annoy the chain of command(partly because no one on the OP is supposed to know that its doctrine)
example: fort drum, February 2006. my first field problem with my shiny new recon unit in tenth mountain the commander had my platoon setting up an OP. now the 19D's were mounted but me and my 11B's weren't, and anyone thats faced a fort drum blizzard can tell you how much that sucks. now because this was a "tactical" situation we weren't allowed any open fires, noise and light discipline all around. so we built an igloo for the 6 of us on that particular OP, and had a couple of 8 hour candles lit inside in small cut outs. with viewing/firing points cut into it and a ventilation hole.
after 36 hours when our pickup arrives (12 hours behind schedule) we find out the roads have been shut down for safety reasons for the past day, and our PL decided to chew us out for the igloo. naturally the FNG history buff of an FO they had (me) pointed out that not only was the igloo doctrinal, but considering it dropped to -70 it was our best option to meet the CO's guidance of no cold weather injuries. oddly enough i actually got away with calling him a dumbass in that conversation.
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the best course of action when all is against you is to slow down and think critically about the situation. this way you are not blindly rushing into an ambush and your mind is doing something useful rather than getting you killed.
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