Candidate Satterwhite Case Summary

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Candidate Jordan delivered an in depth five paragraph order. SNC posted security ensuring that the safety of the fire team was not put at risk. SNC had a good initial plan and proceeded to move the fire team towards the objective. SNC moved the fire team through the woods with minimal opposition; SNC maintained communication and good dispersion. Upon receiving enemy fire SNC suppressed the enemy by assaulting the enemy. SNC pushed through the objective to ensure that all enemy were killed. However, SNC forgot about the weapons cache and commenced to conduct a hasty 180, followed by a consolidated 360, and then an ACE report. SNC, in his haste to complete the problem, completely forgot that the mission was not only to subdue the enemy

SNC conducted an above average analysis of what he expected the enemy to do upon contact. SNC’s scheme of maneuver was vague and could not be executed without significant oversight. SNC’s tasking statements were weak and lacked a purpose. SNC’s formations, particularly his squad column fire team column while in the open area, did not provide effective security en route to his objective. Upon enemy contact SNC stood and began talking to his squad but did not use the ADDRAC format; SNC spoke at just over a conversational tone. SNC directed his squad to suppress the enemy sniper and continue to move to the objective; SNC’s squad laid still while one of the fire team members openly questioned SNC’s decision. SNC changed his mind and directed the

Candidate Davis delivered his 5 paragraph order covering most of the key points associated with the order. SNC’s orientation was confusing; SNC briefed that the current location was where the cache was located, then proceeded to state that the fire team needed to advance to the second set of grid points to complete the objective. This information is confusing and is proof that the fire team leader did not fully comprehend the order briefed to him. SNC stuttered consistently, displaying his uncertainty of the information that he was relaying. SNC improperly stated his TCM’s and informed his team they would utilize a column formation from the “assault to attack” and a column from the “attack to assault”. Upon reaching the objective, the fire

Candidate Allwood was able to provide all of the information required for the operation order brief. SNC included most of the information he was given; however, SNC briefed that the ammo needed to be delivered to the bridge and not to the designated LZ. SNC was able to control the movement of his squad as they began the execution; however, SNC lead his squad through dense brush causing the forward movement to be slow. SNC was able to make the required adjustments to put his squad back on track as they retrieved the ammunition. SNC made the decision to cross the bridge with the first fire team, putting him in the best position to control his squad. During the engagement, SNC was only able to provide minimal information for an ADDRAC. SNC

Candidate Satterwhite ensured he addressed all paragraphs in the 5-paragraph order, however he took no time prior to the delivery of his brief to develop an initial plan. He was unable to provide his subordinates with an executable plan and was forced to develop a plan as he went along. This left his fire team questioning SNC and resulting in both lost time and lost momentum as he attempted to figure out how to accomplish the mission. SNC did not identify potential points of friction in which to place himself, instead sending two fire team members through the tunnel while he remained on the platform. This diminished his ability to control the fire team as he relied on the fire team members to communicate the situation to him and slowing

Candidate Vrountas displayed enthusiastic mindset from the outset that motivated his fire team. While his order missed some details, specifically the scheme of maneuver, his fire team came out of it ready to execute whatever was directed. SNC was able to get his fire team working towards the mission after only a short pause while he formulated a plan. Once he gave direction his fire team began to execute effectively until they ran into friction points. At these points, the motivational drive inspired initially by Candidate Vrountas began to waiver. SNC’s inability to identify some of these challenges led to his fire team members becoming hesitant to follow his direction. Despite this, Candidate Vrountas maintained his role as the leader

Candidate Hairston was confident and thorough when briefing his order. Although confident and thorough while briefing, Candidate Hairston failed to ask fire team members if they had any questions at the end of his brief. This caused a little confusion, leaving fire team members with unanswered questions. Prior to the execution phase SNC posted security and ensured security was able to hear everything in the event he had to replace a fire team member. During the start execution phase, SNC did not utilize the gear provided and attempted to use his fire team members as a means to traverse the obstacle. For more than two and a half minutes, fire team members were standing around waiting for direction, not progressing towards mission accomplishment,

Candidate Sharp demonstrated a basic understanding of the five paragraph order, but did not clearly articulate his words, paused intermittently, and rushed through parts of his brief. SNC failed to develop an executable plan and did not brief any tasking statements to his team. SNC also ended the brief and then went back to finish it after he had already begun executing the mission. After a suggestion from another candidate, SNC delegated security to a team member. Another team member would continually ignore SNC while executing the obstacle. However, SNC lacked the command presence and communication skills to correct the candidate or recognize the need to replace him at a key location. SNC had difficulty leading multiple candidates and failed

Candidate Beauregard effectively delivered his five paragraph order, covering the majority of the key points regarding this problem however, the order deviated from the logical order and sequence of paragraphs which caused key points to be missed during brief. SNC wasted valuable time gathering notes and thoughts prior to briefing the fire team. SNC did not fully comprehend the mission, as he briefed that the reason for the mission was to ensure safe movement of friendly forces vice to gain intelligence on enemy forces. While briefing the Execution, SNC did not cover key points such as the azimuth and the distance of the cache from the current location. SNC’s brief was lengthy in nature; fire team was nearly overlapped by another fire team

Candidate Wessner failed to brief the five-paragraph order instead he briefly mentioned the mission then went straight into problem solving. Upon execution, SNC posted security facing the wrong direction he realized this and repositioned immediately. SNC’s initial plan was to throw the rope over the metal bar. After a few tries with the rope throwing, SNC changed this plan by hooking the canteen to the end of the rope and throwing the rope and canteen over the metal beam, which was successful on the first attempt. SNC was able to get a fire team member on the first wall. SNC tried to crawl under the first wall, which is an explosive area this was outlined by the evaluator during his initial brief. SNC received a penalty for 60 seconds for this.

SNC gave a complete 5 paragraph order that outlined all minimum requirement except for a well-developed Admin and Logistics and Command and Signal that included detailed instructions on how to and when to use the required actions. SNC conveyed this information in detail but maintained little or no eye contact and used filler words such as uh and um. SNC did not post security or maintain any situational awareness during the brief or maneuver to the objective. At points of friction, SNC hesitated for an extended period of time prior to engaging the fire team against the enemy objective as if he was stumped by the situation. SNC recovered from this with a clear plan of action that showed he was able and willing to make decisions. After the movement

SNC gave a thorough 5 paragraph order that included details on the direction of attack and enemy movement, adjacent fire teams that where operating in the area, and a detailed scheme of maneuver that went beyond the evaluators brief. SNC communicated clearly and ensured that tasking’s, orders, and information provided was received by each fire team member by visually or verbally confirming with each member. SNC hastily came up with an initial plan that only outline “main effort move this way”. Security had to be prompted, to be posted, by the security element. SNC’s major point of friction was his movement up and over the wall. Most of his time was spent getting his candidates into position vice issuing the orders, supervising, and prompting

SNC demonstrated a solid level of understanding for the order. SNC delivered all the necessary information from the evaluator. SNC even stated a solid mission statement twice for his fire team. SNC had confidence in his brief and ensured the team understood the safety precautions before executing. SNC's initial plan was very vague but overall how he presented the scheme of maneuver was enough to get the team thinking about how they were going to negotiate the obstacle. The fire teams took his instructions and were willing to do anything he asked. SNC was not specifically tasking his fire team. He made general requests and orders like, "I need someone" and "can someone do...” vice identifying who he wanted to employ. SNC was cautious on how

Candidate Jang unsuccessfully plotted the location of the objective as well as the azimuth. SNC delivered his five paragraph order that confident, however he mislead the squad when informing them that the mission was to support their platoon in “defensive” vice “offensive” operations. During execution SNC displayed that he did not have control over his squad nor did he understand the order relayed to him. SNC on two separate occasions attempted to lead the squad in the wrong direction, one of these instances he was adhering to the instruction of a squad member after already being instructed by the evaluator. SNC lost control of the squad when the make a wrong turn. The evaluator halted the squad to inform the leader, and in the same moment