Posted on Jul 16, 2016
Where do you draw the line between doctrine vs. real-life experience? How do you integrate the two?
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Where do YOU draw the lie and how do you integrate the two? Examples are encouraged.
Posted 9 y ago
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Edit: "draw the line" not lie.
In other words, where do you tend to lean and in what situations?
In other words, where do you tend to lean and in what situations?
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Please explain about "where do YOU draw the lie"? I don't understand the question Sir.
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I was a lieutenant on active duty in 75-78 and reserves until 84. Doctrine is always first until it involves keeping soldiers alive. Then whatever it takes to keep my platoon alive is what I am going to do.
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We learn through training, experience, and education. It's a continuous process in which one area complements the other, so there's no line per se. Example: My former BDE CDR wrote the current battle drill six based off of his experience in Somalia (Battle of Mogadishu) as a company CDR. Integration: The battle drill used from ARTEP 7-8 wasn't suitable for conditions in Somalia. Using the ARTEP as the fundamental basis for entering and clearing a room, he was able to modify the battle drill based on the OE.
You stated you were warned that doctrine will not fit most situations. Yes, doctrine is "a way' and not "the way". You will use your judgment, training, and education when you lack the experience. You will be charged with making decisions in unanticipated situations. The mission command philosophy allows you to exercise discipline initiative when existing orders no longer fit the situation. In the aforementioned example, the company CDR applied judgment and took actions he felt was best suited to accomplish the mission.
You stated you were warned that doctrine will not fit most situations. Yes, doctrine is "a way' and not "the way". You will use your judgment, training, and education when you lack the experience. You will be charged with making decisions in unanticipated situations. The mission command philosophy allows you to exercise discipline initiative when existing orders no longer fit the situation. In the aforementioned example, the company CDR applied judgment and took actions he felt was best suited to accomplish the mission.
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Follow Doctrine, unit SOP. Don't hesitate to lean on your Plt. Sgts. In today's Army you have many younger Joes that have real world experience. Don't over think things.
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