This is because to many strings are being pulled in all directions. In the art of war, no strings should be attached. How was it, that ground troops could not call in fire support or a bombing run because they may injure or kill the innocent. The first casualty of war is innocent therefore if they choose to live in a war zone, they take it upon themselves to worry about their safety. Not leave it up to everyone else. Therefore if a pilot or ground troops want to level an area, no one should be sidelining that decision. This is why so many Americans died in battle. Not just in Afghanistan but as far back as Korea and Vietnam. Fighting a war with restriction is BS. If the US burnt all poppy fields, the Taliban would have had no $ to fund their cause is one way
As a former CI/HUMINT team lead, we were the entire operation. PIRs? "Who are the enemy, where are they, what are they going to do, when?" (So helpful! Thanks!) We were the planners. We were the collectors (leaving the wire more than any three other units combined). We were the report writers. We were the analysts. We then disseminated the information as best we could to mostly uncaring and incompetent leaders, who would generally sit on everything until it had properly aged (can't change the operations planning just because a priority target appears), hit the target three-five weeks too late, then blame us for there being nothing there. Again, and again, and again... We got infantry support exactly once to go with us on a mission. They were terrified of what we did (talk to people) and how we did it (go into town in pairs and talk to people over tea), and never went out with us again. So we just kept going out alone, two-three trucks and 4-6 Joes, always out of radio range of any potential help. Day after day after day... Oh, and funding everything out of our own pockets and ingenuity, because we had no supply infrastructure. Add in a hostile command that sent NCOs back for Court Martial because they complained about a junior officer abusing prisoners and threatening a married enlisted woman because she wouldn't put out. And they wondered later why *nobody* reenlisted.
Wow, sounds shitty… didn’t know they would let such small teams go alone in a hostile environment without support or a QRF ready and waiting on the comms.
@@TheDurivage For several months, our team was responsible for covering 20% of the land area of Iraq. We were out of radio range 15 minutes after leaving the wire. There was never going to be anybody coming to our rescue. We just had to deal with that reality, and continue the mission. Because there wasn't anybody else.
@@themcchuck8400 Which would only happen because nobody cared enough to provide the appropriate radios. HF ground wave and/or NVIS should (usually - it's HF) provide viable comms for that sort of situation. Or satcom. Can't understand why everyone wouldn't reenlist or more of that.
It's crazy the number of parallels you can find between intelligence and civil engineering. The fact that you hammer home the idea that a huge part of the job is just making sure the guys in the field and the guys in the office play well together really highlights it. Makes me wonder if there aren't some practices that weren't directly carried over from one to the other at some point.
@@ngkngk875 When one of the armies came home for rest they had them build roads to stay ready, organized, fit, and easily redeployable. It was a way to utilize a standing army during peace time or down time.
@Max The engineer corp did engage in civil assistance task but I think the issue that prevent this from happening in the wider scale is because of specialization. Back then road was mostly laid out by bare-hand & hard labouring. Nowaday you have vehicle to lay out the road operated by trained personnel, etc. Not to mention that as soldier rise through the rank, they are expected to engage in leadership training and how to operate & maintain complex equipment
As someone who recently has been involved in some Intel briefs with no prior knowledge, this was very informative to help start picking up more of the info being shared.
What has me on edge more than anything is that S2 has basically stopped doing specific intel briefs. They always say when the wire goes quiet then you worry..
@@politicallyunreliable4985 "Someone" absolutely told him to stop with regards to Ukraine, that probably extended to domestic briefings too. Although he did say that those videos were incredibly resource intensive.
After my surgery coming up this week I'll find myself rewatching s2 vids for sure 😅 can't wait to get back out on my EUC to map unmarked trails on osmand while running aprs with a tnc BT through my phone with a radioddity HT on vhf. I send a lot of people to your channel when they ask me how they can get started to advance there prepping to the next level. I always tell them understanding and knowing help and me being a radio a guy I know that very well. Intelligence can be the difference between chaos and order. I'll have to fly my drone a little more often the next few weeks since I can do that without moving to much and of course I'll be parked on the short wave chatting it up. Physical and mental health are so important and often overlooked or put aside. My doctor's always get my upmost respect for what they do for me. I continue to break down from abuse in the field and they continue to fix me up and send me on my way Todo it all over again!
I am a staff member in a new planning cell, and what you’ve said works in the microcosm of inter-office/inter-service battles that go on in planning. It's not Sun Szu, 48 Laws stuff, but handshakes and hugs mixed with nurturing relationships to get the necessary information love your content. Its helping me see how the Intell guys think and what they re going through.
Map-making is great basic Intel practice, you really get an idea of where your resources are, where people are and aren't, zones of similar elevation, landmarks, ect. (I did this as a kid incase I had to run from police but it would definitely help in a shtf scenario )
The closing about the mental and emotional aspects parallels what I've heard from several dispatchers. They've got someone (of completely unknown experience, capacity, understanding, veracity and mental state) on the emergency line and have seconds to figure all that out while, as example: the caller is hyperventilating and talking about a stray dog they'd never seen before but were really calling about sounds of gunshots at a big office. All this while also on the radio and pounding at the keyboard AND knowing that people (often their friends) could die if they get it wrong or too late BUT that stray dog, while worth setting aside for now, might actually be important depending on what other information comes in. And that they'll get things wrong sometimes while those they are dispatching are counting on what they are are saying as absolutely perfect until shown otherwise. Little wonder the substance abuse rates look like lawyers and food service and the self aliveness stoppage rates like LE, EMS, fire, MD, DMD, DVM.
Really interesting, especially coming from my background in recon. Always cool to see things from the other side of the s2 briefing. I laughed thinking about the amount of bolo’s we had for “a white bongo truck” or “guy on a moped”
This brings a tear to my eye, not that I was ever brave enough in this lifetime to go to war, but because I always find myself in the company of those who have been that brave and I am willing to listen to whatever they need to talk about. I have an associate's degree in psychology but I eventually became a biologist and I worked in emergency medicine for a time so I have seen some shit, but nothing like what they see in war. Unfortunately, I expect that to change but not necessarily for the emergency department since you can only show up if you know you can afford it or if you're unconscious and someone else takes you there to save your life. So I have sat and cried with my brave brothers, many of them Vietnam veterans, and I can only imagine how it feels to have given intel and found out that your brothers have died because things change. The big thing I can bring to everything, whether it's war or just regular life, is that the condition of life itself is that things change. The way we measure life is that we remain alive and we measure that along with the passage of time. Time is nothing more than a measurement of entropy, which is also our inevitable path towards death. The best any intelligence officer (or anyone else for that matter) can do is give the most current information that they have and the best thing any operative can do is realize that even very recent intelligence is always going to be subject to change and sometimes a lot of change. Obviously, the best solution is to find a way to be less primal and solve our disputes without killing one another but I'm not sure that this isn't just a feature of our species that we can't evolve out of, but I hope there is a way. Even if we do find peaceful solutions to everything, none of us can forever avoid death and all of us do the best we can in any given situation with the things we knew at that time. Hindsight doesn't count unless we invent time travel and, when will we do that? Well it's irrelevant. The bottom line is that people should understand that their past decisions can only be based on the information and capability they had at that time so that was they best they could do in that situation. Yes, tragic things happen, especially in war, but if there was a better way, surely we or anyone else would have taken it. It's not fair to judge oneself or others based on what we've all done in the past when we couldn't have known what we know now. It's just not fair.
This, especially the second half of the video was my bread and butter as a c-ied collection manager on my second deployment. Excellent vid, keep it up!
This video is spot on, as both a Former Aircrew Sensor Operator and flight tech, along with being a UAS payload operator. Had a SAFIRE event over Iraq and probably a few others over Astan we didnt even detect
As a Cav Scout we always prepared multiple plans for various scenarios that we might encounter even being sent out. Like platoon level planning. For example if we are circling in on the target building and an attack is sprung on our left flank from buildings 3, 4, or 5 and it appears we are outnumbered 10:1 or greater then we all knew that we need to collapse in on the target building immediately to turn and use that as a defensive structure while waiting QRF whereas if we're attacked from buildings 11 or 15 then first squad pulls back towards building 4 and second squad circles around the ambush element. Obviously but everything could be planned for but in 13 months of combat deployment we never once had a scenario pop off that the unit hesitated in the slightest to respond to. Not sure now looking back if that was actually platoon level planning or stuff that came down from above. But I absolutely loved how much info we had to go on on missions with.
Excellent explanation. Your invaluable first hand experience is validated in your summation. Would make mandatory viewing for my NCOES (all levels) also 1SG and Battle Staff NCO course...If I were King for a day. SGM (R)
Another great video. Also ask other people in the office would they know. Which way does this river flow or is it always dry? As for the civilian, which roads flood which bridges will be above water. And the power outage from Texas two years ago in North Carolina from last year should mean it could happen locally. My group knows the emergency generator will come on but they don't know how much fuel it burns in the spring versus the winter versus the heat of summer. It never assume that your safety comfort or next meal is somebody else's responsibility.
Thank you for this, wish i had it before my first deployment. After 11 deployments including MEDCAPS and NGO ops I always tried to pass it on. I used to put officers in the sand table to make them push the items around. I found out where the unit was from and used city names from their area as points. I have had to debrief kidnapped kids and i had training on it but i hated doing it. I did counter KNR (kidnapping/ Ransom) for southcom. Schoolhouse is great to teach you how to think, the framework is fine. I had so much incentive stuff most of the time it was crazy time. Make friends with civil affairs, those guys get good stuff sometimes. I started as an MP, reclassed as counter intel after being forced into it by a very good friend (He was one of the horse soldiers from the movie) he told me he refused to sign my reenlistment papers unless i promised to go CI. I ended up going to woc and became a HUMINT Asst team leader. Loved every minute of that job.
YEARS ago one of my commanders was a Ranger type [blew out his back on a jump and was given a desk] Information collection was one of his hot button topics [along with us field medics cross training] Point being everyone can and should pick up information and forward it to the analytic staff.
That is not a spur ride just an emergency extraction. A spur ride in aviation is a ride in the co-pilots seat for usually mechanical problem diagnosis and on rare occasions celebratory purposes. I was in a Pathfinder company inside of an aviation brigade for emergency rescue of downed rotary aircraft. Any Pathfinder knows that apache story and the obsolete dire circumstances required for approval. Also, SIR is the more common acronym due to PIR used to identify airborne units (parachute infantry regiment) but it could be completely different in MI I was just infantry.
It's surprising how much of this carries over to security work. Something simple like placing a camera does you no good if you don't know what it's supposed to be looking for, if your dispatchers don't know what's important, or if they can't provide specific enough info to the guy responding to what the camera saw.
_"What in the Sam Hill?"_ I haven't heard that expression for decades. My grandfather and uncle used to say it! Sort of _"soft cuss words"_ ... like _"by golly Ned"._
I'm sure you learned the lesson of giving credit when you heard about the Botham spies who died stealing the Death Star plans, which ultimately saved that galaxy.
Planning is essential, plans rarely survive first contact..planning is based on intelligence that changes rapidly..develop the situation before it develops you..
There's always Intel that is gained. For instance, where the enemy is not. By not having normalcy complacency, you can gain information that is missed or ignored by others. Every time I've gone out, I've gotten a piece of information that I wasn't expecting or something that wasn't on my radar. While on a benign exercise, We had inadvertently stumbled onto and interrupted a drug transfer. That was not even a consideration. We were just gathering Intel on a particular target.
~~~my experience being homeless for 3 years forced to travel three different states and navigate entire cities and services through various systems>it prepared me for this>I've read books about the clever stuff that happens for the warrior like amazing prison breakouts throughout history I studied all the wars and the details of all the wars, I watched most of my entertainment in the stories that were around the extremely difficult times were things didn't match up in this ending process. I think I was designed for this job. I am an infj with o blood type personality I am an Aries. And I am number nine life path.~~~
Civil unrest, war, and the big one...Purposely set wildfire smoke patterns. Coincidence Chinese spy balloons, literally all of Canada gets lit on fire, than all these survey flights? I think not..
Maybe they're just training. Airforce bases have simulated bombing runs over US soil regularly. These are just training sorties for overseas missions but I just tried to make it sound spookier to give a better perspective
Thanks again s2! Wish I didn't have to think about any of this in this context, but you know.... Wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first... Welcome to the new world!
Do you mean the chinese balloons? Why would such extreme be taken when the chinese satellites orbit a little higher? The balloons were far more likely dropping plant and human diseases.
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Glad you're still doing okay.
What’s up? Is he the on the naughty list because he’s a talks about Recce?
@Monk_Mode_Mining84 really so genocides are only committed against the rich?
@Monk_Mode_Mining84 exactly, that's why if you do have money, you make sure it is spread out where they can't take it.
@@TTS-TP yeah. Oh wait are we commies now!? My practical implementation of our plan needs more money.
@MonkMode33Danny Casolero didn't have that and neither did Gary Webb
I think every givernment agency loves flow charts. The more unreadable the better they are loved.
Are you sure?
I - Yes.
I - No.
I - Need more info to properly answer.
..gov LOVES to OVERthink virtually everything too.
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This is because to many strings are being pulled in all directions. In the art of war, no strings should be attached. How was it, that ground troops could not call in fire support or a bombing run because they may injure or kill the innocent. The first casualty of war is innocent therefore if they choose to live in a war zone, they take it upon themselves to worry about their safety. Not leave it up to everyone else. Therefore if a pilot or ground troops want to level an area, no one should be sidelining that decision. This is why so many Americans died in battle. Not just in Afghanistan but as far back as Korea and Vietnam. Fighting a war with restriction is BS. If the US burnt all poppy fields, the Taliban would have had no $ to fund their cause is one way
Keeps the bureaucrats employed
As a former CI/HUMINT team lead, we were the entire operation. PIRs? "Who are the enemy, where are they, what are they going to do, when?" (So helpful! Thanks!) We were the planners. We were the collectors (leaving the wire more than any three other units combined). We were the report writers. We were the analysts. We then disseminated the information as best we could to mostly uncaring and incompetent leaders, who would generally sit on everything until it had properly aged (can't change the operations planning just because a priority target appears), hit the target three-five weeks too late, then blame us for there being nothing there. Again, and again, and again...
We got infantry support exactly once to go with us on a mission. They were terrified of what we did (talk to people) and how we did it (go into town in pairs and talk to people over tea), and never went out with us again. So we just kept going out alone, two-three trucks and 4-6 Joes, always out of radio range of any potential help. Day after day after day... Oh, and funding everything out of our own pockets and ingenuity, because we had no supply infrastructure. Add in a hostile command that sent NCOs back for Court Martial because they complained about a junior officer abusing prisoners and threatening a married enlisted woman because she wouldn't put out. And they wondered later why *nobody* reenlisted.
Wow, sounds shitty… didn’t know they would let such small teams go alone in a hostile environment without support or a QRF ready and waiting on the comms.
@@TheDurivage For several months, our team was responsible for covering 20% of the land area of Iraq. We were out of radio range 15 minutes after leaving the wire. There was never going to be anybody coming to our rescue. We just had to deal with that reality, and continue the mission. Because there wasn't anybody else.
@@TheDurivage , too many incompetents and/or too long in peace?
MI HUMINT goes out more than the others.
@@themcchuck8400 Which would only happen because nobody cared enough to provide the appropriate radios. HF ground wave and/or NVIS should (usually - it's HF) provide viable comms for that sort of situation. Or satcom. Can't understand why everyone wouldn't reenlist or more of that.
It's crazy the number of parallels you can find between intelligence and civil engineering. The fact that you hammer home the idea that a huge part of the job is just making sure the guys in the field and the guys in the office play well together really highlights it. Makes me wonder if there aren't some practices that weren't directly carried over from one to the other at some point.
Not a current example, but the Romans were basically a large engineering and construction group.
@@ngkngk875 those legate surveyors every day making sure camp was setup nice and level are a superb touch
@@ngkngk875 When one of the armies came home for rest they had them build roads to stay ready, organized, fit, and easily redeployable. It was a way to utilize a standing army during peace time or down time.
@Max The engineer corp did engage in civil assistance task but I think the issue that prevent this from happening in the wider scale is because of specialization. Back then road was mostly laid out by bare-hand & hard labouring. Nowaday you have vehicle to lay out the road operated by trained personnel, etc. Not to mention that as soldier rise through the rank, they are expected to engage in leadership training and how to operate & maintain complex equipment
It’s all engineering jobs tbh.
As someone who recently has been involved in some Intel briefs with no prior knowledge, this was very informative to help start picking up more of the info being shared.
Your videos are priceless. Keep up the great work and thank you!
What has me on edge more than anything is that S2 has basically stopped doing specific intel briefs. They always say when the wire goes quiet then you worry..
He might just have personal stuff to attend to.
-or-
"Someone" told him to stop.
@@politicallyunreliable4985 "Someone" absolutely told him to stop with regards to Ukraine, that probably extended to domestic briefings too. Although he did say that those videos were incredibly resource intensive.
Very on point.. from the procedure to more importantly GIVING CREDIT. Giving credit keeps the young guys happy.
Solid teaching for us non-intel folks. Thanks.
After my surgery coming up this week I'll find myself rewatching s2 vids for sure 😅 can't wait to get back out on my EUC to map unmarked trails on osmand while running aprs with a tnc BT through my phone with a radioddity HT on vhf. I send a lot of people to your channel when they ask me how they can get started to advance there prepping to the next level. I always tell them understanding and knowing help and me being a radio a guy I know that very well. Intelligence can be the difference between chaos and order. I'll have to fly my drone a little more often the next few weeks since I can do that without moving to much and of course I'll be parked on the short wave chatting it up. Physical and mental health are so important and often overlooked or put aside. My doctor's always get my upmost respect for what they do for me. I continue to break down from abuse in the field and they continue to fix me up and send me on my way Todo it all over again!
I am a staff member in a new planning cell, and what you’ve said works in the microcosm of inter-office/inter-service battles that go on in planning. It's not Sun Szu, 48 Laws stuff, but handshakes and hugs mixed with nurturing relationships to get the necessary information love your content. Its helping me see how the Intell guys think and what they re going through.
Speaking of: I've been spoiled to your briefings and really miss them. Will you be bringing them back?
You forgot the part in step 5 where the commander stops the briefing and walks out of the room because the fonts don't match on the PowerPoint slide.
Map-making is great basic Intel practice, you really get an idea of where your resources are, where people are and aren't, zones of similar elevation, landmarks, ect. (I did this as a kid incase I had to run from police but it would definitely help in a shtf scenario )
This brought back some memories and nightmares.
Same here. It's pretty rough sometimes.
Maybe don't be a government thug and go out murdering people then you might sleep easier.
Love the channel, your teachings are more important than ever for your fellow countrymen.
Godspeed. Keep that powder dry. Long live the Republic.
The closing about the mental and emotional aspects parallels what I've heard from several dispatchers.
They've got someone (of completely unknown experience, capacity, understanding, veracity and mental state) on the emergency line and have seconds to figure all that out while, as example: the caller is hyperventilating and talking about a stray dog they'd never seen before but were really calling about sounds of gunshots at a big office. All this while also on the radio and pounding at the keyboard AND knowing that people (often their friends) could die if they get it wrong or too late BUT that stray dog, while worth setting aside for now, might actually be important depending on what other information comes in. And that they'll get things wrong sometimes while those they are dispatching are counting on what they are are saying as absolutely perfect until shown otherwise.
Little wonder the substance abuse rates look like lawyers and food service and the self aliveness stoppage rates like LE, EMS, fire, MD, DMD, DVM.
dmd & dvm?
Really interesting, especially coming from my background in recon. Always cool to see things from the other side of the s2 briefing.
I laughed thinking about the amount of bolo’s we had for “a white bongo truck” or “guy on a moped”
This brings a tear to my eye, not that I was ever brave enough in this lifetime to go to war, but because I always find myself in the company of those who have been that brave and I am willing to listen to whatever they need to talk about. I have an associate's degree in psychology but I eventually became a biologist and I worked in emergency medicine for a time so I have seen some shit, but nothing like what they see in war. Unfortunately, I expect that to change but not necessarily for the emergency department since you can only show up if you know you can afford it or if you're unconscious and someone else takes you there to save your life. So I have sat and cried with my brave brothers, many of them Vietnam veterans, and I can only imagine how it feels to have given intel and found out that your brothers have died because things change.
The big thing I can bring to everything, whether it's war or just regular life, is that the condition of life itself is that things change. The way we measure life is that we remain alive and we measure that along with the passage of time. Time is nothing more than a measurement of entropy, which is also our inevitable path towards death. The best any intelligence officer (or anyone else for that matter) can do is give the most current information that they have and the best thing any operative can do is realize that even very recent intelligence is always going to be subject to change and sometimes a lot of change. Obviously, the best solution is to find a way to be less primal and solve our disputes without killing one another but I'm not sure that this isn't just a feature of our species that we can't evolve out of, but I hope there is a way.
Even if we do find peaceful solutions to everything, none of us can forever avoid death and all of us do the best we can in any given situation with the things we knew at that time. Hindsight doesn't count unless we invent time travel and, when will we do that? Well it's irrelevant. The bottom line is that people should understand that their past decisions can only be based on the information and capability they had at that time so that was they best they could do in that situation. Yes, tragic things happen, especially in war, but if there was a better way, surely we or anyone else would have taken it. It's not fair to judge oneself or others based on what we've all done in the past when we couldn't have known what we know now. It's just not fair.
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Thank you for providing your knowledge.
Sad to say, some entities of whom we should be able to trust the most, are the very ones we can trust the least.
This, especially the second half of the video was my bread and butter as a c-ied collection manager on my second deployment. Excellent vid, keep it up!
Fantastic, INSIDE look. MUCH appreciated on this Sunday morning..
12:27 That paperclip text is hilarious.
good to hear ya!
Thank you for the class today. Much appreciated.
Good stuff as always brothers, stay safe out there.
I haven’t seen the paper clip w Google eyes in at least 15 years. Well placed!
Great video, I'm glad you put this together so many people can learn for free
Another excellent video as per usual!
This video is spot on, as both a Former Aircrew Sensor Operator and flight tech, along with being a UAS payload operator. Had a SAFIRE event over Iraq and probably a few others over Astan we didnt even detect
Really interested in learning more about step 3 : sorting, chronologies matrices weighted ranking and link analysis.
Another fantastic video! Always educational and informative! Keep them coming!!
Been missing you one of my favorite channels. I bet your property is really coming together keep up the grind.
As a Cav Scout we always prepared multiple plans for various scenarios that we might encounter even being sent out. Like platoon level planning.
For example if we are circling in on the target building and an attack is sprung on our left flank from buildings 3, 4, or 5 and it appears we are outnumbered 10:1 or greater then we all knew that we need to collapse in on the target building immediately to turn and use that as a defensive structure while waiting QRF whereas if we're attacked from buildings 11 or 15 then first squad pulls back towards building 4 and second squad circles around the ambush element.
Obviously but everything could be planned for but in 13 months of combat deployment we never once had a scenario pop off that the unit hesitated in the slightest to respond to.
Not sure now looking back if that was actually platoon level planning or stuff that came down from above. But I absolutely loved how much info we had to go on on missions with.
As a civilian, most of your videos are equal parts interesting, informative, and confusing.
Literally had this discussion last night with SMG. You filled some of the gaps, thank you
Excellent explanation. Your invaluable first hand experience is validated in your summation. Would make mandatory viewing for my NCOES (all levels) also 1SG and Battle Staff NCO course...If I were King for a day. SGM (R)
Delighted to see a fresh upload, jammed with vital information, instruction & "Lively Editorial Comment"! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Another great video.
Also ask other people in the office would they know. Which way does this river flow or is it always dry?
As for the civilian, which roads flood which bridges will be above water. And the power outage from Texas two years ago in North Carolina from last year should mean it could happen locally.
My group knows the emergency generator will come on but they don't know how much fuel it burns in the spring versus the winter versus the heat of summer.
It never assume that your safety comfort or next meal is somebody else's responsibility.
I love your work , thank you for delivering to the citizens!
This was informative and immersive. Thanks
Alright! Glad to see another video!
Glad we get another video!
Thank you for this, wish i had it before my first deployment. After 11 deployments including MEDCAPS and NGO ops I always tried to pass it on. I used to put officers in the sand table to make them push the items around. I found out where the unit was from and used city names from their area as points.
I have had to debrief kidnapped kids and i had training on it but i hated doing it. I did counter KNR (kidnapping/ Ransom) for southcom.
Schoolhouse is great to teach you how to think, the framework is fine.
I had so much incentive stuff most of the time it was crazy time.
Make friends with civil affairs, those guys get good stuff sometimes.
I started as an MP, reclassed as counter intel after being forced into it by a very good friend (He was one of the horse soldiers from the movie) he told me he refused to sign my reenlistment papers unless i promised to go CI. I ended up going to woc and became a HUMINT Asst team leader. Loved every minute of that job.
YEARS ago one of my commanders was a Ranger type [blew out his back on a jump and was given a desk] Information collection was one of his hot button topics [along with us field medics cross training] Point being everyone can and should pick up information and forward it to the analytic staff.
How is there comments from days ago when it was just uploaded!!! WHAT IS GOING ON
probably makes it avalible to patreon supporters early
guys probably got linked to a preview on the patreon
You could watch it early too if you pay for it…
Absolutely OUTSTANDING! That is all. As you were.
Thank you for these little glimpses (is that a word?) into that world.
"Little" things to excite the mind.
Appreciate your videos sir.
That is not a spur ride just an emergency extraction. A spur ride in aviation is a ride in the co-pilots seat for usually mechanical problem diagnosis and on rare occasions celebratory purposes. I was in a Pathfinder company inside of an aviation brigade for emergency rescue of downed rotary aircraft. Any Pathfinder knows that apache story and the obsolete dire circumstances required for approval.
Also, SIR is the more common acronym due to PIR used to identify airborne units (parachute infantry regiment) but it could be completely different in MI I was just infantry.
It's surprising how much of this carries over to security work. Something simple like placing a camera does you no good if you don't know what it's supposed to be looking for, if your dispatchers don't know what's important, or if they can't provide specific enough info to the guy responding to what the camera saw.
thank you! ❤️🤍💙
Another quality video. Thank you!
Another gem. Well done.
Great presentation. Keep them coming.
_"What in the Sam Hill?"_ I haven't heard that expression for decades. My grandfather and uncle used to say it!
Sort of _"soft cuss words"_ ... like _"by golly Ned"._
Great video. Thanks!
I'm sure you learned the lesson of giving credit when you heard about the Botham spies who died stealing the Death Star plans, which ultimately saved that galaxy.
Planning is essential, plans rarely survive first contact..planning is based on intelligence that changes rapidly..develop the situation before it develops you..
Holy shit its S2 Underground!!!! What's up guys glad to see yall
Thank you
Great Video Guys!!!
Glad to see you’re posting again my Brother 🤘🏼
How do you get differing groups of people working together who are at odds or currently show the inability to communicate effectively together?
ego is an enemy outside and inside the wire
Also helpful: the trusty GUHOR stick.
Mulțumesc
Excited to see the next intel update
Waiting for the next intel update! Great video by the way.
There's always Intel that is gained. For instance, where the enemy is not. By not having normalcy complacency, you can gain information that is missed or ignored by others. Every time I've gone out, I've gotten a piece of information that I wasn't expecting or something that wasn't on my radar. While on a benign exercise, We had inadvertently stumbled onto and interrupted a drug transfer. That was not even a consideration. We were just gathering Intel on a particular target.
Organization is the key to everything
~~~my experience being homeless for 3 years forced to travel three different states and navigate entire cities and services through various systems>it prepared me for this>I've read books about the clever stuff that happens for the warrior like amazing prison breakouts throughout history I studied all the wars and the details of all the wars, I watched most of my entertainment in the stories that were around the extremely difficult times were things didn't match up in this ending process. I think I was designed for this job. I am an infj with o blood type personality I am an Aries. And I am number nine life path.~~~
Love the info on this channel
Another very interesting video from S2, thanks!
Great content!
Will there ever be a video on supply working with ops and s2 on prepping personnel for before during and after missions
Please 🙏 tell us more about structural analysis techniques.
Good sense of explanation!
"War. War never changes."
Looking forward to ur next video. This one wasn't for me.
Your info did get me learning about radios and why I needed them.
God bless
The 'Protector' has to be correct ALL of the time, the 'Enemy' only has to be correct once.
This guy was a good officer.
WOOOO! HE'S BACK!
ALWAYs good to see a new vid from this channel. I hope the team is doing well; the shepherd too 🐕🦺 Fight in the Shade 😉
this is dope, but I wanna know how and when field intelligence operations are conducted.
So what's your thoughts on all of the survey flights being done over the US??
Civil unrest, war, and the big one...Purposely set wildfire smoke patterns. Coincidence Chinese spy balloons, literally all of Canada gets lit on fire, than all these survey flights? I think not..
Maybe they're just training. Airforce bases have simulated bombing runs over US soil regularly. These are just training sorties for overseas missions but I just tried to make it sound spookier to give a better perspective
@@smtxs9274 I doubt that. Over 89 flights in 3 days...
@@johntoothman4888 that sounds like alot rn. Is it focused on specific spots or just all over? And are these U2's?
@@smtxs9274 Mostly eastern US.
Thanks again s2! Wish I didn't have to think about any of this in this context, but you know.... Wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first... Welcome to the new world!
Good look guys. Stay frosty.
Well said!
Waiting for a new video!
Love everything you produce. I think you have other channels? Recognize your voice. SLLS D😎🤙🇺🇸
Amazing work
Knowledge sharing with relative partners for a common goal.
Ayyy, we all stayin frosty? (Or optional patrolling in a vehicle with a lit blunt?)
Thanks
Really like what you are doing.
Awesome work
What do you make of all the survey flights over the states?
Do you mean the chinese balloons? Why would such extreme be taken when the chinese satellites orbit a little higher? The balloons were far more likely dropping plant and human diseases.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 they weren't after google earth type imagery they were gathering signals intelligence.
Not the balloons, the 4000+ low altitude survey flights over every metro area of the US over the last 90 days.
Germanistan: ICE
US&A: Amtrak
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Great job !!!