Five Men's Fire Team Case Study

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 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 Fowler displayed a low sense of urgency taking about two minutes following the evaluator’s brief to write his order then briefed his fireteam for over five minutes. SNC provided an adequate brief to be able to execute the mission. The Mission paragraph contained an accurate task and purpose but also contained additional information that was not necessary. Additionally, when he repeated the mission, it was not at all verbatim. SNC provided a scheme of maneuver that was above average however; SNC’s tasks were merely assigned billets with no true task and purpose. Throughout the brief SNC was a little choppy, showing a little lack of confidence and weak understanding of his plan. SNC did not post security during his brief, but did improve

Candidate Biondo briefed all five paragraphs of the order but it was lacking detail. He did not brief scheme of maneuver in the order and he did brief not a plan. Also, he would say "I say again" prior to even stating the mission statement once, which displayed that he was not confident in his order. SNC was able to come up with a plan on the fly prior to executing. When his plan was clearly not working he adjusted the plan about five minutes into the executions. SNC was able to act in a timely manner. SNC positioned himself in the best position to control his fire team. SNC addressed security and he had one fire team member establishing security throughout the mission. After making some quick decisions initially, SNC appeared to get

SNC brought his fire team leaders in for the full five paragraph order brief. SNC ensured each topic was covered with the exception of Coordinating Instructions, which was ommitted. SNC Mission Statement did not include an IOT. Immediately upon briefing his fire team leaders, SNC placed the squad in formation to step leaving no time for the fire team leaders to breif the remainder of the squad. This left some confusion amoungst the remainder of the squad when they made contact with the enemy. SNC allowed the terrain to dictact movement and did not correct dispersion of the squad as they moved in a single file toward the objective. SNC gave a portion of ADDRAC. After assaulting through the enemy the squad quickly moved to a hasty 180, 360, and

Candidate Espinos briefed the situation according to the five paragraph. SNM used his skeleton effectively to cover admin and logistic and command and signal which were not on my initial brief. SNC posted security but did not give him any specific instruction or check on them throughout the evaluation. SNC developed a plan and briefed his team effectively. SNC then tasked a candidate to cross body his weapon and navigate the obstacle. SNC did not address the fact that his candidate had not tied his boots and had his weapon on incorrectly preventing the candidate from being able to accomplish his part of the mission. SNC made adjustments as needed to get his team to the other side. SNC inspired a sense of urgency and mission accomplishment.

Candidate Passafume delivered an incomplete brief lacking confidence to his squad. SNC displayed a great amount of confusion as he relayed his brief. SNC failed to properly calculate a proper azimuth or the location of the objective. It was difficult for SNC to read his notes he had taken. SNC failed to properly summarize the Orientation; he simply briefed the coordinates of the current location and the objective. SNC failed to brief Attachments and detachments, as well as the Location of Key personnel. Lack of this information made it difficult for the team to fully comprehend, creating questions at the conclusion of the brief. At multiple times throughout the evolution of the scenario, security was addressed by members of the team. One candidate

Candidate Rodriguez gave a clear, direct and very confident brief of the five paragraph order to his fire team. SNC was able to address all the key points with the exception of command and signal. SNC briefed the need for security but, did not utilize during the execution phase. SNC displayed great communication skills which were very effective throughout the course. SNC displayed a great deal of urgency and relayed this to his team members also. SNC showed great leadership skills and positive control of his fire team. This was displayed during one particular portion when the rope was penalized for touching red and was told to drop it from the top of the obstacle, the team member at the top misunderstood and also came down as well. SNC

Candidate Dietrick failed to brief the admin/logistics and command/signal sections. Of the parts he did brief, he did not identify separate paragraphs and seemed unfamiliar with the overall order format. Security was not set for the brief but was established during the execution. Despite not having an initial plan once execution started, SNC was able to quickly orient to the problem and decide on a course of action. As friction points were encountered, SNC was able to make adjustments to the team's current course of action and communicate this to the team members. He was able to maintain a good tempo/momentum by continuing to re-attack the problem after friction was encountered. SNC displayed a good command presence and was clearly leading

Candidate Brown started her mission off with an above average brief to her fire team. SNC took the details of the evaluator's brief down with excellent detail. When issuing the order, SNC almost relayed the information verbatim from the evaluators brief. Once she finished her brief and tasking, she then took her azimuth and found that she forgot which tree in the woods she used for a reference point. After failing to take another azimuth prior to completely missing her objective, the evaluator then had to step in to get her fire team back on track. This caused the team to assault the objective from the backside of the objective. Once, the objective was in SNC's sight, she acted according to the mission statement and her team was able

1. Candidate SNC briefed his fire team starting with a generalized Orientation which led into a confidant and detailed five paragraph order verbatim of what was given, giving his fire team all of the information needed in order to execute the mission. On first sight of the enemy, SNC changed his formation in order to better manipulate his Fire Team through the objective. Upon contact with the enemy, SNC communicated to his Fire Team the direction they needed to conduct their assault and was able to assault through the objective in a timely and accurate manor. At all times during the assault, SNC was calm and collective, giving concise orders to the rest of his Fire Team, leading with confidence. Once complete, SNC set a solid 360 degree security

SNC began the five paragraph order brief confidently. SNC thoroughly briefed the Orientation paragraph addressing terrain, weather, and the potential for hypothermia due to the weather. SNC failed to properly address the Enemy Situation and briefed incorrected information. SNC failed to address the Friendly Situation, which contained information pertinent to the problem. SNC thoroughly briefed the coordinating instructions and ensured subordinates understood the “off-limits” areas. SNC briefed the use of verbal ADDRAC during enemy contact. SNC was confident while briefing and minimized the use of filler words. SNC failed to address security during the brief and throughout the problem. SNC’s plan was poorly thought out and tasks were

SNC was unable to plot the location of the objective and unable to calculate the azimuth or distance to the objective. SNC briefed his five paragraph order in a meek tone causing SNC to appear unsure of himself and the information he was briefing. SNC’s Orientation, Situation, and Mission paragraphs were punctuated with filler words such as “uh um” and SNC omitted information briefed by the evaluator in these paragraphs. SNC’s Admin and Logistics paragraphs did not contain information pertaining to EPW handling or resupply. SNC often repeated himself and corrected himself making the order difficult to understand. SNC’s initial plan was to attack; conversely, the mission briefed by the evaluator was an ammunition resupply mission. During

Candidate Dalby did not seem confident while briefing his fire team on the mission at hand. SNC missed the Admin and Logistics portion as well. There did not seem to be a solid initial plan in place and upon execution there was some uncertainty of how to effectively begin the problem. SNC's lack of a well thought out plan resulted in taking advice from his fire team members. SNC was briefed prior to the start of the obstacle not to throw anything, but threw the ammo can over the wall which had the rope tied to it, this resulted in a 60 second penalty of the ammo can and rope. SNC did not have a solid secondary plan which resulted in mismanagement of time. There was no real sense of urgency throughout the negotiation of this obstacle which

Candidate Dodson displayed confidence and a general knowledge of the five paragraph order during his brief with some short falls in more specific details in his Mission and Execution paragraphs. SNC had failed to give an in order to or purpose to his mission and a scheme of maneuver that was essentially a long and drawn out repeat of the overall concept of the problem. He did brief a good casevac plan to include a link up with LRC staff then higher headquarters after conducting self/buddy/Corpsman aid. SNC had also failed to address a succession of command as well. His command presence was shown and he was very enthusiastic however he had a poor plan to use his subordinates. Doing most of the work himself, his two team members not on security