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| | Command Operations Center, LLC offers services
to meet the needs of your command. We provide our clients the opportunity to
test their decision-making skills by using our skills and simulations to provide
the challenge you need to hone yours. A little effort on the part of your
commanders and staff will allow
them to practice what we preach.
The more you sweat in Peace the less you bleed in War.
This really applies to all forms of decision-making.
The picture above illustrates a Marine CPX (Command Post Exercise) in
progress. Here, in a future conflict scenario, a Marine Alpha Command team
(the alternate command group) deploys troops to help evacuate refugees in a very high stress, high danger
environment near a refinery.
Scroll down for some samples of what we do...
Murphy's Law:
If it is possible to make a
mistake, ...you will.
- Military
Situational Simulation:
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Example A: Events in
Iraq and Afghanistan have proven the value of high stress decision-making training at
the Battalion, Company, and Platoon level. Events involving
terrorist activities, false surrenders, the use of civilians,
children, and the destruction caused by roadside bombs have changed the way America
goes into combat. The more a unit can practice decision-making
under as close to real conditions as possible the better their chance
of success in the real world. Conduct a Battalion sized advance
into territory that may or may not be hostile. Deal with the
press, local governments, terrorists, IED's, and VBIED's in a realistic
simulation that will challenge your staff's abilities.
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Example B: Conduct
a Battalion
Level deployment where your Battalion is charged with guarding an Airport
that is being used to bring
supplies into an economy that has had no food, no Quick Marts, no Supermarkets, no bottled water, nothing; for 90 days. What would
your security precautions be and how would you deal with getting basic
services to the population, ...possible insurgents, ...criminal
elements, ...and a
multi-leveled local
civilian government, ...if there is one?
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O'Toole's Law:
Murphy
is an optimist.
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Military Unit Simulations
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Your unit is assigned the task of
transporting 20 truckloads of Russian made 122mm artillery rounds from
a depot 25 Kms. south of Baghdad to a depot 100 Kms. north of Baghdad.
During the mission you encounter a roadside explosion that nearly
destroys one of your trucks, ...an ambush conducted by Iraqi kids
younger than
the youngest soldier in your unit, ...and you have an encounter with a UNHCR official that nearly drives you to believe in the phrase
"first lets eliminate all the lawyers".
You achieve your mission, but you
find yourself cornered in a small out of the way town 50 Kms. from Baghdad
on the return trip. You know your duty, and you know how to
execute it, but a little time to practice battle drills and emergency
response drills would have been nice.
COC can provide you the opportunity
to review your battle drills, practice communication procedures, and
watch the progress of a convoy in a controlled environment while sitting
around a conference table viewing the action at the level of the
individual driver, the convoy commander, or the "eye-in-the-sky"
overhead.
Truisms:
Tracers, like radar, often tell your enemy more than they tell you.
Dealing with the
Press
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The CNN truck has arrived right after
your unit filled a truck full of holes at a check point.
It's evening and the embedded
reporter wants to talk to you. No big deal, ...until the
camera man lights up the area and you find yourself the only three
people standing within 100 meters. -
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The picture above illustrates a portion
of a unit moving through a congested area where civilian vehicles are operating
normally. How civilians will react in this type of situation is an
unknown. Simulating the possible reactions before actually being there can
save both civilian lives and the lives of those in your command.
Conducting a number of realistic simulations while sitting around a conference
table is considerably less expensive than having to do so with your actual
vehicles in a realistic or "real" setting.
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