If anyone wants a case study on how groupthink and homogenous teams can completely roadblock problem solving, go check out The Ripper on Netflix. It’s about the utter failure of the West Yorkshire police in finding the Yorkshire Ripper from 1977-1981.
It takes a lot to get me riled up about stuff like this, but the insane arrogance those leaders had in locking into one initial idea resulted in over a dozen victims and a total lockdown of the state for women.
3/ this isn’t bashing those cops that conducted 100s of 1,000s of hours of investigating. Their leaders were closed to new ideas and even when cops on the ground interviewed the killer, they were forced to release him over and over again because he didn’t the fit the mold.
4/ closed minded leaders with no diversity of background, gender, or race led to needless deaths. And they only caught the killer essentially by accident.
5/ the moral of the story is diversity and open-mindedness help our organizations to become stronger and smarter. Anything short of that is accepting failure and inefficiency. /end
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With branch selection time upon our young cadets, it's time for my take on why Chemical should be in your Top 3. This thread is hereby labeled: Dr. X-Love, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chemical Corps.
1) Back in 2013, when I found out I was branching Chemical, I felt pretty bummed because of the reputation the Chemical Corps had. I had an engineering degree and a solid slot in the OML, and I wasn't excited that I was going to be stuck being a damn Chemo for my entire career1/
But as time has gone, I realized branching Chem was really a blessing in disguise. 2/
@scottjstephens@MichaelStahlke Too easy, sir. First and foremost, unless they’re branch detailed, your Chemo is going to need command in order to advance their career. It is a requirement in order to compete with their combat arms and maneuver support peers for selection to captain and major. 1/
@scottjstephens@MichaelStahlke Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against your Chemo getting a CBRN platoon or company XO job by virtue of how few of those slots exist within the Chemical Corps. Therefore, in order to set your young lieutenant up for success as a future commander, think about what 2/
@scottjstephens@MichaelStahlke formative experiences you had leading up to your current job. You were a platoon leader of least one type of platoon, probably a CO/BTRY/TRP executive officer, and spent at least a little time in the 3 shop. Those experiences gave you a working understanding of property, 3/
Alright ladies and gentlemen, time for a lesson on CBRN Mounted Reconnaissance featuring my NBCRV platoon, the Four Horsemen of 1st PLT
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Mounted Recon platoons come in 3 flavors in active duty. ABCT engineer battalions (BEBs) have 2 NBCRV platoons (one team), SBCT BEBs, have 3 NBCRV platoons (still one team) and Hazard Response Companies have 4 NBCRV platoons giving us 2x teams. /2
While some see Mounted Recon platoons (NBCRV PLTs from now on) as mobile unmasking devices, they really serve two major functions for maneuver commanders: MOBILITY and SECURITY (not on the TOC) /3
So what exactly is this thing? A coronavirus (CoV) describes a family of viruses. They infect hosts from all different types of species, but humans are affected by 7 that we've found so far. These include the common cold, SARS (SARS-CoV), MERS (MERS-CoV), and novel (2019-nCOV) 1/
So where did it come from? Viruses tend to stick to a specific host and evolve over generations to try to reach a homeostasis where they don't kill their hosts, but infect them enough to propagate their species. 2/
In the last week I read and listened to 3 articles/news stories all revolving around Artificial Intelligence. All 3 had nothing to do with the military but I believe all 3 have extremely high potential to impact the future of warfare. 1/
The first was about the AlphaStar AI defeating some of the world’s top players of Starcraft 2. The AI learned from watching top player matches to figure out basic strategy and rules, then Google DeepMind (its creator) allowed it to run hundreds of matches against itself 2/
The AI developed a unique strategy which DeepMind then put against 2 top players in best 3 out of 5 matches. The AI continued to learn while playing these players and was able to win 9 of 10 matches between the two players. 2/