Candidate Passafume Case Summary

Candidate Kautz briefed a detailed orientation with confidence and clarity. His five paragraph order was complete and briefed thoroughly to his fire team. Candidate Kautz was not the first one on the platform and stood in the back attempting to control his fire team. This caused him to lose control of members and not fully understand the points of friction. Candidate Kautz failed to display a sense of urgency and make decisions quickly when asked by his fire team. Though he maintained confident, his decision making ability lacked. Once he identified his solution would not work, there was a pause of over two minutes in which he stopped to create another solution to the problem. His fire team appeared to respect SNC and he was clearly

Candidate Lewton presented his brief confidently and with command presence. He showed a good understanding of the order and conveyed that in his brief hitting all the key points of the five-paragraph order. SNC failed to post security upon execution of the mission and did not realize this mistake. SNC’s initial plan was successful in getting one team member onto the wall with the first attempt. SNC was calm, confident and fully engaged throughout the mission. They were able to make it onto the second wall on their first attempt as well. Candidate Lewton used his subordinates giving orders from the rear and using his team as his eyes to survey the area for him. SNC’s fire team was able to make it to the ammo can but due to the time expiring,

Candidate Hamm briefed his order with confidence and displayed an understanding of the OSMEAC orders process and its organization. He briefed a thorough enemy situation by applying DRAWD analysis. His coordinating instructions also included extra information including order of march, base unit, and consolidation instructions. However, SNC did not brief a scheme of maneuver in the order, forcing him to develop a plan after his brief had concluded. His succession of command was a repeat of the order of march instead of who would assume his billet. SNC was confident in his brief and it was apparent throughout execution that he was in control of the team. Even after friction caused the team to falter, SNC was quick to re-focus the team and maintain

SNC conducted an incomplete 5 paragraph order which did not cover all of the information pertaining to the mission. For example, the mission was to locate, close with and destroy the enemy preventing them from setting up a hide sight. SNC did not cover the administration and logistics paragraph also; SNC failed to inform the fire team of the chow plan. SNC did not seem to understand the measure of his brief . During the brief SNC used an extended amount of time by repeating the situation multiple times causing confusion within the fire team. SNC did develop an initial plan prior to starting the execution; however SNC was not able to make adjustments to the initial plan. SNC ’s failure of future planning was evident during the enemy contact

Candidate Rabideau while briefing his order stumbled a few instances but was able to regain composure after moments of difficulty. However, he did brief most portions necessary to execute the mission and his plan reflected coherent thoughts. Prior to the execution phase, SNC posted security. SNC oriented security in the correct direction, assigned sectors of fire, and ensured he was not stagnant. SNC did not look at the obstacle prior to his initial plan. As a result, over two minutes passed after the brief; the fire team stood around, did not progress towards mission accomplishment, and waited for orders. Nonetheless, once the fire team focused on their mission, Candidate Rabideau constantly ordered them to remain focused and reminded

Candidate Laffey's brief was very thorough and confident. SNC's brief was fluid, natural, not rehearsed, and contained all elements of the 5 paragraph order to accomplish the mission. However, he used an abundance of pet words such as, "um", and "uh." At times this caused a little confusion in his fire team, making it difficult to determine the current paragraph being briefed and took away from the time allotted to accomplish the mission. Candidate Laffey's initial plan included all the elements necessary to accomplish the mission. During the execution phase, SNC continuously ensured his fire team acted in a manner that was consistent with a tactical environment. For example, SNC adjusted speed, adjusted dispersion, and changed the fire

11… Candidate Zinsmeister was unable to calculate a correct azimuth or distance to the objective. Utilizing proper time management, SNC was able to meet the minimum standards while issuing the operation order to her team. SNC demonstrated command presence and confidence, which made it clear and concise for each member to completely comprehend. As the team began to move from the assembly area, the team got relaxes at the fact that there was no enemy presence detected as members of the squad were seen moving down Buffalo Pond Rd, not utilizing the proper tactical carry. At the point of friction, SNC was surprised and didn’t know how to resolve the confrontation from the angry villagers and briefly panicked when sniper fire rang out, thus hitting

Candidate Doyle delivered his five paragraph order neglecting to mention the information covered in the Orientation as it was briefed to him by the evaluator. SNC only covered the grid points contained in the Orientation, thus making other parts of the brief confusing to the squad. SNC’s squad asked questions regarding the direction of travel. During the execution, SNC was unable to quickly make adjustments to the initial plan, as he seemed slightly overwhelmed and unable to assess the entire situation. Once SNC realized that he had taken casualties, his focus was still on the objective ahead. His focus on the mission displayed sheer neglect for his casualties as he did not know what the extent of the injuries were while issuing commands to the teams. SNC had to repeat to the squad several times to move the casualties, as the team failed to display any sense of urgency.

Candidate Huguelet started briefing his order before setting security. During his brief, SNC sounded confident and covered all areas of the order. He did not repeat the mission twice and failed to use the verbiage “in order to” in his mission statement. Throughout this mission, SNC did not embrace the fighter leader concept and hung back trying to direct his fire team from afar, which proved to be very ineffective as he was not able to fully assess the situation. SNC lost sight of the tactical situation when he decided to use voices commands in a POW camp with known enemy in the area and allowed his fire team members to noisily progress through the scenario. One fire team member was penalized, and when he came back into the scenario, SNC failed

SNC issued a complete five paragraph order that made sense and ensured all subordinates understood. SNC spoke in a regular voice expressing no confidence. SNC was able to develop an initial plan prior to starting the mission. During the mission, SNC came across some road blocks that forced SNC to make quick adjustments to his plan; however SNC relied on the suggestions of his subordinates. . SNC made the decision at the point of friction, to gather the fire team back to the starting point and restart the mission. SNC failed to properly supervise his subordinates, allowing each member of the fire team to slack off. SNC went for long periods without communicating, leaving the fire team to only communicate with each other. SNC did address security

Candidate Taylor provided a shoddy five paragraph order. The mission was a statement of a basic plan to accomplish the task. The enemy situation did not even contain the expected enemy actions on contact, which was provided by the evaluator’s brief. The Execution paragraph was made up of information already provided in the Enemy Situation and billet assignments as tasks containing no purposes. There was no scheme of maneuver. SNC’s delivery was very choppy in the first few paragraphs with intermittent pauses because SNC would lose track of where he was in his notes. During execution, SNC maintained a very tactical posture throughout. At points of friction, SNC placed himself where best to facilitate his team’s movement. Communication flowed

Candidate Stauffer briefed the situation efficiently in accordance with the five-paragraph order. SNC used his skeleton to include admin and logistics and command and signal which was not included in my initial brief. SNC did not post security once he noticed the security posted he mentioned that he post but did not give the order or any directives to him. SNC did not create a plan and lost the confidence from his team. SNC's team began to offer up suggestions because he was taking too long to make any plan. SNC ended up being over taken by one of his teammates. SNC allowed himself to be overshadowed by another candidate. SNC's command presence and failure to make decisions did not inspire a sense of urgency from his

Candidate Branom failed to post security this taking away from the overall tactical awareness of the mission knowing that there were enemy troops in the vicinity of their location. SNC displayed little confidence while performing the brief, he was soft spoken and sounded unsure of the information he was trying to pass to his team. In the beginning of the mission it was clear that he didn’t have an initial plan because SNC was hesitant and the team was unsure what was going on. There was little communication between the team leader and what he wanted his subordinates to do. With the SNC’s insignificant communication during the situation he and his team lost focus and the sense of urgency towards accomplishing the mission at hand. Even with the

SNC’s order was disorganized and lacking confidence. The order contained fabricated information to include an adjacent unit “1000 meters away.” This information was not briefed by the evaluator. Another candidate suggested SNC employ security, since SNC did not address the issue. SNC developed an initial plan, however the plan was vague and did not include specified tasks. SNC expended valuable time attempting to get an ammo can over the obstacle in

Candidate Kocic’s stumbled through his brief and began to lose awareness of what he had written down. SNC began to slow and jumble information provided from the evaluator, specifically replacing fire team with squad and retracting statements to correct them but still not briefing the corrections with confidence. SNC did not mention Command and Signal directly in his brief, only making mention of hand and arm signals once throughout the delivery of the brief to the team. Upon stepping off his speed was consistent with the situation, however, he did not shoot his initial azimuth from the provided location and therefore was left of the intended route. SNC rushed the team into the execution, and the terrain dictated their movements, causing