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Originally Posted by lindy
From my perspective, MI Detachments should be either moved to the Reserves or required to be located in States with SCIFs and States that do not have SF companies so we can be ready when you need us to be.
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If you're talking AD MID's as well, I'd lean in the opposite direction. One of the most beneficial effects on the 441st MID was its
ownership by the 1st Group in the early 70's. They were trained by the SFOD's in as many SF "areas" as we could manage on Oki and deployed with them as often as possible. "Airborne" became a unit requirement, and we shipped many off to Ranger School. The adjustment of cross-hairs from ancient Asian History to local current culture, diseases, ethnic conflicts and customs, etc. gave us real and real-time benefits. When the "analyst" came back from a deployment with a detailed sense of "other stuff I wish I'd known", he became a real asset to a team the next time they deployed.
The Group S-2 can handle the SCIF and aim the MID in the right direction if there's trust all around.