Do You Think or Do You Know?
Abstract
Knowing the answer to the question Do you think or do you know? can mean the difference between success and failure during a deployment. What you think is something you ve been told. What you know is what you have done or seen. For example, surveying in an underdeveloped nation or nonpermissive environment is not the same as surveying in a peacetime western environment. Successful predeployment training and relief in place (RIP)/ transfer of authority (TOA) when arriving in-theater will close the gap between the two and set the stage for successful deployments. The missions may vary a great deal, yet it all comes down to whether or not personnel think they know or actually know successful deployment procedures. While supporting the 130th Engineer Brigade in Iraq, Detachment 8, 412th Engineer Command (ENCOM), United States Army Reserve, was given survey missions that required all of their combined civilian and military backgrounds. This included previous continental United States (CONUS), overseas, and combat experiences molded into a proven procedure: beginning in predeployment training, continuing through RIP/TOA, and being continually refined during operations in Iraq. This successful deployment procedure involves more than the simple collection of data and can be broken into six steps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA592579
Entities
People
- Travis Y. Johnson
Organizations
- Kanazawa Institute of Technology