[GreenSalsa]

While I am NOT going to suggest that GO or other Senior Officers / NCOs should be involved in your day to day operations--they do need to be involved in being able to provide Mission, Intent, Endstate, and more importantly Resources to your organization / detachment. In addition to all that, your efforts at the tactical level need to be coordinated and synchronized at the operational and strategic level and direct communication can help provide clarity.

Again, while I am not going to say every GO, Senior Officer, or Senior NCO is not a mico-manager, I will say this--they have ALL been in your shoes at one time or another. What makes you think you have all the answers?

The last trip over to Afghanistan, we set up a weekly VTC with senior people so the guys on the ground could learn from each other, coordinate tactical operations with adjacent ODAs / Platoons in order to leverage advantages. Finally, several times--yes, GOs did sit in these meetings and listened to detachments talk about problem sets they were facing and then directed their staffs to support them in a manner the detachments needed.

No detachment should be an island unto itself--your efforts need to be worked with ALL of the forces in country to support a unified effort.