Five Paragraph Agency Case Study

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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

Candidate Genter began his brief strong with an Orientation that included key terrain in the area. However, SNC's Execution paragraph not only lacked detail, but completely omitted Tasks and any executable plan to accomplish the mission. The extent of SNC's Scheme of Maneuver was to utilize the planks to move, causing many questions from his fire team members following his brief. SNC's lack of initial plan significantly hindered the sense of urgency with which his fire team moved, and in his absence of direction, another team member began to make decisions and direct the team leader and the rest of the fire team what to do. When SNC did communicate to his fire team, he did so in a composed and calm tone of voice. However, this did little

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 Caughran delivered his 5 paragraph order phenomenally. SNC ensured to cover all information as it was relayed to him, as well as add information regarding the terrain and climate conditions. SNC displayed the utmost confidence, through the inflection in his voice as well as the assertiveness used when assigning tasks to the fire team. During the execution, SNC positioned himself properly so that he was able to direct the team. He encountered minor error when the team reached the friction point. His position was no longer effective and he was forced to become more hands on with the mission. Once hands on SNC was able to help his team progress forward, and prevent any casualties. SNC posted security before and during the execution,

Candidate Florea delivered a very thorough five paragraph order. SNC’s sense of urgency was apparent by wasting little time tasking, setting up security, and fluidly moving into the execution phase of the problem. SNC’s forward momentum was apparent as SNC got all fire team members on the wall and two completely across the problem. SNC was in constant communication with the entire fire team throughout the execution of the problem never leaving any doubt for who was in charge. SNC ensured that all fire team members were able to execute based on their ability many times picking up the slack where need be. SNC best positioned himself where he could best control the fire team. SNC was confident in his abilities which translated into SNC expertly

Candidate McKenzy demonstrated and understanding on how to conduct a five paragraph order but omitted key information throughout the entirety of the brief. SNC displayed he was somewhat confident with his brief by his calm demeanor using a conversational tone during his brief. SNC stated there is no need for security prior to conducting his brief. The scheme of maneuver was vague, and non-executable without further guidance. The tasking statement stated basic billet assignments as who was the ready, fire and the assist. Once the execution began, SNC was in control of his subordinates and effectively communicated adjustments to the initial plan. Upon the first friction point, SNC remained calm and was able to devise a new plan and maintained

SNC stated all of the required components of the five paragraph order maintaining a calm, confident demeanor with minimal use of filler words. The first two negative points arose immediately after SNC completed the brief. Although he understood what was required to accomplish the mission he failed to develop a plan of execution. Because of his lack of planning and before he made an attempt to do anything, the first words out of the candidate’s mouth after his brief were “Do you have any suggestions for what to do?” He posed this question to the two fire team (FT) members not posted as security. Once one of the FT members gave the first suggestion SNC immediately jumped back into his role as the FT leader. This was most evident when SNC recognized

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.

Upon issue of his order to his fire team, it was immediately apparent that Candidate Woodgie took time to think about and develop a clear initial plan. SNC briefed a scheme of maneuver that both outlined his plan to negotiate the obstacles from start to finish and included anonymous, sequential, and thorough tasking statements that painted a very clear picture for his team what needed to be done. This was followed by both specific tasking statements but also the assignment of specific roles in the fire team. SNC also briefed very specific coordinating instructions as tactical control measures indicating an keen understanding of the five paragraph order format. More importantly, those clear instructions further amplified the plan for his

Candidate Wallace successfully briefed the entire five-paragraph order, though she added an additional element, referring to the environment as urban terrain, and neglected to brief the location of the friendly platoon. Candidate Wallace also briefed that communication would be arm signals only, but utilized only verbal signals on the obstacle. Once on the obstacle, Candidate Wallace came up with a good plan, which was unfortunately poorly executed. In the conduct of her plan, Candidate Wallace also removed the fire team's security, bringing in that candidate to assist, and did not replace security for two minutes. Additionally, Candidate Wallace had a candidate who was doing well throwing the rope over the top bar, but replaced her with

Carl is taking the Marvin and Malachi to Mark’s house and Malachi said he is making them watch porn. Since then, Malachi is groping men penises, stripping, and he humped and made sex noises on Don (grandfather) leg. Mark has previous charges of molestation of young children and he also went to jail for killing his father. Mark gives grandma Karl money when the children comes over. It’s like he is paying grandma to bring the children. The children might stay a week or on the weekends. Grandma does not stay with the children, she drops them off and go smoke. Grandma is aware of what Malachi said, she was the who brought it to the reporter’s attention. Grandma acted like the children were going to stop going to Marks but they did

Candidate Lau was not confident when briefing his order. SNC spent an elongated amount of time to brief OSMEAC, with extended periods of silence and no transition between paragraphs or clear beginnings of paragraphs. Consequently, this caused confusion amongst his fire team members making it difficult to determine the current paragraph being briefed. SNC posted security prior to the execution phase. Candidate Lau developed an initial plan after looking at the obstacle for further observation. SNC was able to make the majority of decisions but incorporated the suggestions from subordinates. As a result, a significant amount of progress was made during the execution phase. SNC took in account the changing situation around him and was

Ms. June Michaux is a licensed Speech Language Pathology Assistant for the State of Tennessee and the owner, founder and publisher of the lifestyle magazine Slips Digest that provides health, research and industry information to Speech Language Pathologists in a print media format. She works part-time for Let’s Talk Therapy in Antioch, TN where she provides therapy assistance and evaluation treatment for clients with autism, speech and learning disorders, swallowing deficits and other impairments. She holds a provisional patent on an item called the “Check 4 the Baby Sign” that addresses a universal critical health concern of babies dying in hot cars. She is an Air Force Veteran who served

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