Good morning (Boca tof) Haim (excuse my poor phonetic spelling),
I know you are surprised and so am I, but that is the life we live. I 'am,
too, an inactive reservist re-activated for a time.
Today, is just a type of rehearsal to get a bit more organized. Both of our
HQs have been very busy with other exercises and other challenges so we can
now return to the work before we meet virtually in two weeks.
I know you and your team have completed your work as always but I'm not very
comfortable with the status of the MSEL. I hope today and tomorrow we can
work together so we are on common ground when we begin the conference.
You are right, the MPC will also serve as a MSEL#2 to finish our level IIIs
See you later, Will
Feel free to call.
William "Judy" Haag, Lt Col, USAF
ECJ7-JTrEx, Joint Training and Exercise Planner
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Hello William,
I was surprised to read your e-mail, I did not knew nothing about tomorrow,
Stage 2, only about the 28th with Stage 3.
I do not know if Benzi or Nimrod knew about tomorrow, I do not think so.
I am a reservist, and tomorrow I will be at our offices, working on the
seagull to upload data for the 28th meeting.
You know that from procedure point of view, we actually finished MSEL conf.
with aprox. IDF 400 injects (no TO attached yet), this is after during IPC
we agreed with our counterparties in the different cells on KE.
So the way I see it, as MSEL MNGR, dealing now with slides is a bit out of
the order of things, but anyway and certainly me/we will do anything
possible and needed to support.
Maybe it will be a good idea to call next conference MPC/MSEL2 and start it
with walk through the injects.
Best regards,
Eng. Haim Ravid
Sunrise Engineering -
Sales Engineer
Prototypes Production Manager
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Hello Haim and Linda,
Tomorrow, we will rehearse our Level II review @1600 CET/ 1700 IST on
chicken, bridge 1/rm#2 in preparation for our Wednesday meeting.
Please let me know how, you would like to run this.
Feel free to call.
BRs, William
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Hello Linda,
I will upload today during our morning all our slides after we arrange them,
actually they are ready and uploaded to the portal since end-IPC, but I will
re-arrange .
Since the MSEL conf. (especially for JF that we have only 1 MSEL conf.) is
for printing injects, this is what we came to do, I pushed to have the JTIMS
up and running, with your help it was ready on Saturday, Sunday I have
arranged all needed with our drafters, so that Monday morning we started
printing our KE and injects.
The KE were coordinated and agreed with US side during the IPC conf. via VC
and phone calls. As far as I know, we do not have KE that were not
coordinated with US side Cell Members.
The IDF TO list is also uploaded to the portal since end IPC, in an excel
format. No need to discuss them, only to take a look if any of our TO need
to be de-conflicted with your TOs this is a quite rare thing.
I also do not like the use of the term "MSEL Sync." That everyone are using
now, it is a confusing and wrong term at this stage. I will talk again with
my team today to stop using it, we will use MSEL crosswalk. (anyway I will
try.. They have cached the "Sync." Word and keep using) .
So today after we go over the slides, if we have time left we go over the KE
in the JTIMS tool, I do not think it is "a must", we can do it in the
beginning of MPC.
But if we will have some time left, we can go over the KE in the JTIMS for
the main cells, AIR, SEA, BMD ..
For your points -
If I may suggest,
1. Review/confirm TO list - No need to review, or confirm IDF TO, we
usually send it to you, and you upload them to the tool.
2. Develop Storylines using Level 1-2-3 charts (attention to Phases and
dates- especially when cutting and pasting from previous exercises/slides) -
OK, they are ready I will re arrange and upload.
3. Ensure only true Key Events are charted (all injects are important -
not all are Key) - Done. We have printed in 350 injects and 62 KE.
4. Crosswalk Storylines (last day) - like # 2 here, we will discuss
them during todays VC .
Thank you and hope today it goes better, the line at your side was VERY bad,
we really could not understand anything from what you are saying..at EUCOM
side it sounds much better.
Best regards,
Eng. Haim Ravid
Sunrise Engineering -
Sales Engineer
Prototypes Production Manager
Consulting
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Tel: +972-3-9066916
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Subject: MSEL Update
Lt Col Ravid/Haag,
Just got off the phone with Tom Hooper and he confirmed SG is down on
both sides (EUCOM/JS). Unfortunately, I was unable to load the templates
on before it crashed so I've attached them here and will load them as soon
as possible tomorrow morning when/if the system is up.
So, I think we are all in agreement that the MSEL review could have gone
better today. The mikes, the masks, the screen issues all contributed. For
my part, I wanted to apologize for not sending LtCol Ravid a heads up on the
slides - between the JTIMS server delay and my ROM I was in a rush to get
them done and just posted today. I will definitely let you know if I post
anything to the MSEL folders in the future.
And, as Lt Col Ravid said, moving forward we will leave all the current
injects in the JMSEL Tool and then all the Syndicates will work on their
Level 1-2-3 charts. After the MSEL Crosswalk we can make the necessary
adjustments. I am very pleased to hear this since this is the standard JS
process used for Storyline-MSEL development. Experience has proven that
MSELs/Storylines are best developed using the building block approach. It
may seem like a step backward, and extra time but when the Quad/Fishbone
slides are completely filled out, the MSEL inject will almost write itself
so it is time very well spent. My analogy is painting a room. It's all
about the prep which always takes longer than actually painting. But if you
do the prep right, the last part of throwing on the paint is a breeze.
Speaking of building blocks, I also have some concerns over the Training
Objectives. It is the first block/step and I have yet to see a
comprehensive, approved list. I have made "Placeholder TOs" in the tool but
in theory all Storylines should first be based on a TO. I have seen some
of the IDF TOs in the folder but I would like to discuss those over the SG
phone soonest.
MSEL Crosswalk vs MSEL Sync. There is actually a difference. MSEL
Development with a MSEL Crosswalk is what we are trying to accomplish this
week during the Planning Phase. A MSEL Sync is only during PRE_STARTEX in
the EXECUTION phase. (per Jt Staff Exercise Handbook)
Lastly, are the Syndicate slides. As was mentioned in the briefing, some of
the storylines were from JC and in the wrong Phase and many of the dates
were wrong even though I used the "approved" final versions from the IPC.
Bottom line is I think taking the time to step back now and review our steps
is absolutely the best course.
If I may suggest,
1. Review/confirm TO list
2. Develop Storylines using Level 1-2-3 charts (attention to Phases and
dates- especially when cutting and pasting from previous exercises/slides)
3. Ensure only true Key Events are charted (all injects are important -
not all are Key)
4. Crosswalk Storylines (last day)
Your thoughts?
v/r Ex
LINDA "EX" EXTERKATE
Joint Staff J7, JST, Valiant
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