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Originally Posted by bradclark1
I'm not saying the commander and platoon leader shouldn't have been relieved. The battalion and brigade commanders should have been relieved also. Not just the juniors. They knew what the mission was and they knew the strength's of those units. The buck doesn't stop at the lowest, it stops at the top.
Yes soldiering is a deadly business and no the higher commanders don't need to know the minuet details but they are payed to know what the their units are capable of or incapable of. You know that unit has so many checkpoints and that they have so many people. Simple math would tell the story. The battalion and brigade commander would also know that no reaction force was available. The whole point of my comment was the leadership covered their arse by sacrificing junior officers.
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Maybe, but I see no evidence of it.
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"This was an event caused by numerous acts of complacency, and a lack of standards at the platoon level," said the investigating officer, Lt. Col. Timothy Daugherty, in the summary.
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Note it says "platoon level". The Company Commander is the highest ranking officer that could be expected to know the situation in such minute detail. Maybe the Battalion CDR but certainly not the BDE commander.