Probably not. Changed, that is. It is a complaint that's at least as old as I happen to be. It certainly was a complaint in the line infantry units in both Korea and Viet Nam. An allied complaint was -- and this is from what I'm told still true -- that the Intel Community puts far more reliance on its assets, no matter how far removed from reality (or real time), than it does on reports from the troop units.
I won't even go into trying to move an Arc Light in Viet Nam based on a Recon Patrols observations over the previous 24 hours in the face of the ASA intercepts from two weeks earlier...
It was also true that if the Bn/Sqn S2 happened to be an Officer from the branch of the unit, his interest in usable Intel was generally far more than that of the MI branched S2s who tended to look up the stovepipe to a far too great extent. There were a few exceptions both ways but that was generally true.
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