To settle some urban myth about this Topic. I was the blue force (US) operator for this event. Yes the real guy behind the scene controling the whole blue force for this war game. Here is what really happened. The event was supposed to be a few weeks long and the initial phase was to get the component commanders on the US side up to speed since it was being staffed by actual destroyer squadron staff personel. The attack in question went down during the early phase of the game which was to be used to build the DESRONs situational awareness becuase in the real world no one goes into this cold turkey. The red forces had been involved in the planning process for about a year. The DESRON had been there for 2 days. Some of the Blue force ships hadn't even been tasked for patrol routes while the desron was still figuring out what assets they had.
I was the only Blue shipping operator on the game floor at the time and was helping the DESRON get thier starting positions set up and I was controling roughly 100 entities, carriers, cruisers, amphibs, landing craft...etc.
A phone call came in from the red force operators. griping that some of the ships needed to have thier names changed and while I was in the middle of making changes they started the attack. (reminescent of the scene from clear and present danger when Jack Ryan is on the phone to distract the deputy sec while he was routing around in his computer.) By the time I noticed that weapons where being fired it was too late.(fool me once)
So the attack was registered null and void primarily becuase the exercise was still in set up phase, and as was stated because the multiple simultaneous attacks would not have gone unanswered. becuase there would have been multiple crews all responding and not just one operator being distracted.
The Red force General cried foul because he was trying to win and boo hooed that it was scripted for the US to win. The war game wasn't being run to see if we could be winners it was being run to test new command and control ideas and to train the desron staff. Yes it was a game, games differ from real life, you need to set up the game board in a game. If we were playing checkers and I wouldn't even let you get your side ready to play why did we bother to get the checker board out?
Once the exercise was being played out for real it was a fairly executed and adjudicated by the White Cell (Judges/exercise control personell)
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To settle some urban myth about this Topic. I was the blue force (US) operator for this event. Yes the real guy behind the scene controling the whole blue force for this war game. Here is what really happened. The event was supposed to be a few weeks long and the initial phase was to get the component commanders on the US side up to speed since it was being staffed by actual destroyer squadron staff personel. The attack in question went down during the early phase of the game which was to be used to build the DESRONs situational awareness becuase in the real world no one goes into this cold turkey. The red forces had been involved in the planning process for about a year. The DESRON had been there for 2 days. Some of the Blue force ships hadn't even been tasked for patrol routes while the desron was still figuring out what assets they had. I was the only Blue shipping operator on the game floor at the time and was helping the DESRON get thier starting positions set up and I was controling roughly 100 entities, carriers, cruisers, amphibs, landing craft...etc. A phone call came in from the red force operators. griping that some of the ships needed to have thier names changed and while I was in the middle of making changes they started the attack. (reminescent of the scene from clear and present danger when Jack Ryan is on the phone to distract the deputy sec while he was routing around in his computer.) By the time I noticed that weapons where being fired it was too late.(fool me once) So the attack was registered null and void primarily becuase the exercise was still in set up phase, and as was stated because the multiple simultaneous attacks would not have gone unanswered. becuase there would have been multiple crews all responding and not just one operator being distracted. The Red force General cried foul because he was trying to win and boo hooed that it was scripted for the US to win. The war game wasn't being run to see if we could be winners it was being run to test new command and control ideas and to train the desron staff. Yes it was a game, games differ from real life, you need to set up the game board in a game. If we were playing checkers and I wouldn't even let you get your side ready to play why did we bother to get the checker board out? Once the exercise was being played out for real it was a fairly executed and adjudicated by the White Cell (Judges/exercise control personell)