Quote Originally Posted by 120mm View Post
We embed civilian journalists in military units, don't we? And I think it is short-sighted to view HTTs as targeting assets. Where intel weenies decide which doors to kick down, HTTs should be advising commanders on why they shouldn't kick down the door in the first place.
Journalists are tourists. No one pretends they contribute anything.
To kick or not kick is not really the problem. That comes down to good behaviour, and common sense.

... but HTTs are working for the military. That means that have to have some military utility. They must be useful. The military has a defined mission and that is what the HTTs have to support. The military is not there to enable the HTTs to gather information of Ethnographic interest.
Surely their job is to furnish information in support of the mission? Isn't that an S2 function?

Is it a civil affairs function?