Quote Originally Posted by wm View Post
Maybe I'm not getting it or maybe we are just using different language to say the same thing. Your post above seems to me to be sort of what I was saying about the company needing the ability to maintain situational awareness and understanding of what is happening within its defined AO. I'm not sure of the need to pass this on to higher, except as a form of institutional record keeping--Why do we need to have companies sending along PERINTREP, Daily INTSUM, etc to Bn?

You are overstating the use of the intel cell; it is not an "S2 section" in the company. As for passing on the information to higher, that is the source of most intel and it is not mere record keeping. No one is advocating a series of intel reports like you suggest. What does go up is an AO assessment/sitrep and it is not necessarily daily. If the BNs do not get the intel from below, they have very poor SU of their AO. The same holds true for the BDEs.

Tom