Candidate Hill’s brief had three major shortcomings, which included no SOM, no tasks, and no coordinating instructions. This displayed a lack of an original plan to get across the obstacles. However, SNC did have a resounding successful interpretation of higher’s order into an actual 5 W’s format with an ‘IOT’ included. These shortcomings did not aide his team member’s in their understanding of his intent. This had to be consistently explained during execution in order for his team to make any progress. Once failure was met via himself falling in the water, SNC asked “anyone else have a better idea?” Although worded improperly, it did not have the expected consequence of his team members losing confidence in him. SNC was clearly being
