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Sgt Wayne Wood
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What was ‘bodycount math’?
1 dead body
+3 blood trails
+ 800 expended rounds
+ 2 airstrikes
+ 5 adjusted rounds
+ 1 FFE
+ 2 repeats
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50 dead body count
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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OH! So now I know how it’s done. Thanks Wayne. (-:
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Sgt Wayne Wood
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Now you know why officers need a college degree... it’s the higher math...
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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But, who do they ask for the line numbers?
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT Philip Roncari
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And if you threw in a AK or two viola” arms cache”
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LCDR Sales & Proposals Manager Gas Turbine Products
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I remember trying desperately to fill out the "monthly report" on the ANA's progress. Nearly impossible to metricize some of the stuff.
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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LCDR (Join to see), Sir, I don’t know how those reports are done, but I would think it would help to have the correct numbers to crunch. I assume a lot of it are guesstimated by the blood trails and how many bodies were dragged off, if that happens.
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LCDR Sales & Proposals Manager Gas Turbine Products
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SGT Bodine-Our reports focused on the ANA's total capability (or lack thereof) to be a self-sustaining force. Other direct action or intel units may have kept some sort of official tally on enemy casualties (I honestly don't know), however we were tasked with evaluating their ability to perform various tasks ranging from use of communication procedures to maintaining independent operations. When questions on this report resembled, "What percent of the ANA officers use a consistent After Action report?" or "What percent of the ANA administration has access to electronic forms?"...and you just saw an ANA officer hitting one his soldiers with a stick...it get's complicated.
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MSgt Stephen Council
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SGT (Join to see) Well, the pentagon has never published false numbers in past wars...
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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I know! So why now MSgt Stephen Council? LOL
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