Alena Ventrallis
PAND3M0N1UM
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Posted - 2014.04.06 23:35:00 -
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The comm system we have is very rudimentary. Either everyone in a channel can hear you, or nobody can. This creates situations where many people are trying to relay information at once and things get criss-crossed or misheard, causing confusion.
Let's have a new system in place. We can have a platoon leader" that has three chevrons above his head. And we can divide the chat up into sections, and control who is in what section.
Here is how it would work: Regular squad members would only hear each other and their squad leader. The squad leaders would hear their squad and the other squad members and the platoon leader. The platoon leader would hear only the squad leaders.
The reason is to make it easier to control what information is going through, and thus make it easier for the platoon leader to control his squads, and the squad leader to control his squad. Squad leader A doesn't need to hear what's being said by the blues in squad B. He only needs to hear his platoon leader, squad leader B, and his squad members in A. Same for B. Squad leader B only needs to hear squad members in B, squad leader A, and the platoon leader. The platoon leader doesn't need to hear the regular members of squads A & B. He only need to hear his squad leaders. The regular members of squad A don't need to hear the regulars of squad B or squad leader B or the platoon leader. They only need to hear each other and squad leader A.
Here is a crude diagram of the comm chain:
PL: Platoon leader
A: squad leader of A squad
B:squad leader of B squad
a: regular member of A squad
b: regular member of B squad
PL
/ \
a--A----B--b
\ | | /
a b
Anyone not directly connected by a line cannot hear that person.
So a can hear a and A but cannot hear b or B or PL
b can hear b and B but not a or A or PL
A can hear a and B and PL but cannot hear b
B can hear b and A and PL but cannot hear a
PL can hear A and B but cannot hear a and b
This would make comms much easier to understand. You would relay information to the squad leader, who would pass that up to the platoon leader. The platoon leader would tell the squad leader what to do, and the squad leader would relay that to the squad. Squad A doesn't need to know what squad B is doing, and if they do, the PL can relay information between the squad leaders.
It seems complicated, but it is similar to how communication is in the military. If anyone needs clarification on anything, I'll do my best to do it.
EDIT: diagram isn't displaying properly. I'll work on a fix.
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