Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My EQ is what is the most important phase in completing the military intelligence's mission? My first answer is the processing phase because this is the phase where you decide what raw intel collected from the collection phase is useful to answer the requirement and completing the mission. My second answer is the most important phase is the directing phase because this is the most crucial phase where the MI soldier along with his platoon drafts the requirement and makes their plans for the rest of the cycle. If the requirement does not address the mission fully the mission will fail.  My third answer is the most important phase is the planning and supervising phase because this phase is always happening and the CO or commanding officer is the main soldier in this phase. The CO’s job in this phase is to supervise his troops on what they are working on, if they are doing their job write and if they are on the right track. Once the CO determines the situation he works with his men to draft a plan and he or she makes sure the men stick to that plan and do it in a timely fashion. My best answer to my essential question is the second answer which is the directing phase, due to the requirement being drafted in this phase the importance of this phase is than that of the first or third answers. Yes processing and planning and supervising are important but the directing phase sets the entire stage of the cycle

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

Research from my sources which are articles, manuals, books, and interviews. The process was read manuals, books, and articles talk to my mentor and people i interviewed for clarification.  

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
Only problems i faced are errors on my part a lot of the time. Such as not fully grasping the meaning of a word and having to go back and change it to proper word usage according to that  meaning. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The most significant sources in my research is my mentor staff sergeant Felix and the FM 34-52 manual Intelligence Interrogation. These are so important because my mentor helps and teaches me everything he can tell me and that 34-52 manual, it explains not just interrogation or any just one topic but explains to the reader Military Intelligence as a whole.