Special Warfare as an Academy Grad

Small Team Bacsi said:
In life there is management and then there are the workers who do the work and follow the orders of management.

In my experience the first inside the compound (or similar in our case) is the point person. Followed by the rest of the point team.

Management for us might have been right there with us but behind , which did happen on occasion, or miles away back at HQ waiting by the radio , often stressfully , for word from the team they sent in. And this happened most often.

Why would the military spend a ton educating young officers over a 4-7 year period just to have them kick in doors for a living ,which can be done every bit as well or better, by a young enlisted?

Sometimes IME the officer or even the medic plays point person but it’s not their job to do so.
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Thank you. This makes much more sense now.

V/R

Hatchet
 
I will tell you a funny story told to us at a reunion by retired USMC General Don Gardner

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_R._Gardner

He was at the time a capt in charge of Charlie company 3 Recon Bn

On a company op , not a normal small team mission, his Marines discovered tunnels.

For one reason or another the former nco now capt decided to go in himself. Armed with a 45 pistol and a flashlight.

He crawled for a while until he ran into several VC or NVA packs. So he crawled back out and called in the discovery on the radio and went back down in to the tunnel a few minutes after.

When he got to where the packs had been they were gone. Being lucky is better than being smart :)
 
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I see. What does that have to do with officer vs enlisted as point man though?
 
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