OC & T Case Study

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Early arrival of OC/T was critical in ensuring that we secured location for war-gaming and preparation for scenarios, securing a classroom for team building exercise and instructions and planning for the ADVON and team arrival.

Tour of duty – we were told that the exercise tour could not be broken up between two persons. Recommend that the exercise have a personnel turnover mid-way through the exercise. The length of the exercise is sufficient to rotate each position once and still have ample time to gain experience. Moreover, planning a turnover would be more realistic to the deployment experience as well. Other sections were able to split the tour FSS split the tour midway through the exercise.

Lack of exchange with other agencies.
A real
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Did not agree with FM not being able to deploy members for 1-wk increments (i.e., OIC UTC)
2. Look at having 2 FM teams
3. Coordinating AD FMer involvement
4. More joint FM scenarios (i.e., working in a more joint office and environment)
5. Getting Contracting and Legal involved
6. Working more with CE (i.e., base requirements etc)
7. Logdet Kit: Will maintain a quarterly updated DVD of regs etc for kit. Look at adding tables and chairs.
8. Logdet Kit (deploying to PW): Ensure you have your increment monitor on orders for 2-weeks to ensure pallet gets delivered (e.g., working log mod tasks etc)
9. OCT need to have their own reporting instructions
10. OCT universal scenario format to meet US Army needs etc
11. EFSS: Ensure they have flexibility in their meals (e.g., MREs) to meet dietary requirements of participants
12. No complaints with Best Western hotel
13. Awesome job by SMSgt and MSgt to get the war-room and classroom. Great force multiplier.

Fun Facts

The deployed FM team simulated the accountability of over 35.5M. Exchanged over 50k in US/FC while had $1400 in collections $3900 in paid checks and 5.65m in paid vouchers
40 real world customers were taken cared of during the

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