My peer battalion commanders and I are supposed to be coordinating this joint operation but we all have different priorities for our units and nobody wants to be the one who takes the higher risk mission. We've been dancing around this in meetings for weeks and the brigade commander is getting frustrated with all of us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Everyone wants someone else's unit to take the dangerous job, so nothing gets decided.
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