Posted on Jun 3, 2015

What do you know about PSYOP?

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I'm interested to hear what you experience and knowledge of PSYOP. If you are a 37F please do not comment.

Posted 9 y ago

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Posted 9 y ago

I've worked directly with PSYOP teams both tactical and non-tactical. Their effectiveness was really based on their imagination of how to accomplish their mission. In non-combat setting, they seemed to be much more productive, likely because there were not as many constraints.

My experience with the team personalities were much different also. One team wanted to be an island, didn't want to incorporate into the SF mission going on, and thought they were super secret squirrels. In my opinion, they sucked.
The other team incorporated well with us, which served both of our missions better, and created a task-force of different capabilities moving towards the same objective. In my opinion, they were great and brought a lot to the team.

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LTC (Join to see)

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if you are not going to integrate your assets with other units, you are worthless. The teams/units are supposed to be an asset to support the commander in accomplishing the mission. Communication and teamwork are essential for mission success.

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LTC (Join to see) Sir, I 100% agree. This particular issue stemmed from both the SF Team and PSYOP Team both being subordinate to an O-6 Command. When the O-6 changed out, the new Commander put PSYOP under the SF Team and consolidating the separate (yet similar) LOEs. It became a pissing contest between the two CPTs, with the PSYOP NCOIC added in. We just worked through it. When push came to shove, we weren't going to let anything keep us from completing our mission.

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