How my foggy memory remembers it:
When I started the Objectives were often but not always added to the Orders by the CiC so that everyone had the opportunity to cross check for violations and to understand why the orders were what they were, what the big picture was and where second hour action might be found.
Someone noted that since everyone eventually got the Objectives it would be better for those that wanted to practice earlier to get the objectives ASAP.
One CM after another began to send them to all contacts. But it was never a rule and still is the a CM choice.
Can both CiCs please use the side email tool to send Objectives to all of your subordinate squads?
Things HAVE changed over the years but we've settled on what I thought was a system for this. Just in case the side CiC for a frame is unable to do it, for whatever reason, one of his subordinate squaddies (the other two on the list) or another squad CO(that has three on their list too) could take it over. That's why it's done this way. To make that optional might invite chaos come frame time at worst or by Thursday into Friday at best. To send them to EVERYONE would invite chaos HERE every week. So let's not go there! THE OBJECTIVES will NOT have your mission included in them---BUT YOUR ORDERS WILL. If you "want to practice" how will you know what you're flying before Wednesday night when YOUR ORDERS are supposed to get out? Answer: you wouldn't. You're one of the ones that are confusing the OBJECTIVES with the ORDERS. They're not the same thing. So that's out.
The OBJECTIVES would go out (by rule I thought) generally the Sunday PRIOR to the frame. The ORDERS are to go out (by rule I thought) by end of WEDNESDAY prior to the frame. They NEVER went out at the same time to the masses unless the CiC of that frame took absolutely no time to "do" the orders and it was a generally "here it is guys, you figure it out" set of orders. He might divvy up the planes and that's about it. How many times have we seen that? But that was never the idea. In recent years, the three guys on the contact list got the OBJECTIVES on the Sunday prior to the frame. That way at least those guy knew what the general idea for the frame was--just in case. I've gone from being a squad CO for many, many years to a random grunt-- but I'm one of the three in my squad. So I get the OBJECTIVES mailed to me generally sometime on Sunday every week that we have a frame. Pretty much without fail.
I didn't think it ever was that "one CM after another began to send them to all the contacts" thing. I thought that was WHY we had the three squad contacts in the first place? I thought this WAS the rule, the MO if you will, for distribution? If it's not the rule---who the heck decided that? Makes no sense. If it WAS the rule, this entire convo wouldn't be taking place as the right people would get the info when they were supposed to!
Looking at the email I use for this, I notice that I did NOT get the OBJECTIVES as I usually would (even tho the title of this thread says I should have). But then again I wouldn't have expected them sooner than TOMORROW anyway.
