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Merry Christmas Bill and team! Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas everyone. See y'all in 2019!

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The group work has been turned in.

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Thanks for everyone's effort this week.

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Hello group I have uploading the assignment.

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Bill I think I'm a little confused, if you can call 757-277-6323. This way I can get what your saying

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Hey all, Brittney is organizing our comments from the first section into one piece, I put together the COG flow charts, and I drafted the 2 paragraph operational idea. Thanks for all the comments on A, B, and C. It made the flow charts easier. If anyone has any constructive feedback/edits, please add them in.

Marcus, are you going to submit the work later? If not, Brittney and I are going to jump on later tonight and do it if it hasn't been done already.

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Another key point to hit is that that SWPA included POA's third fleet in order to have a more robust surface warfare and carrier component during the operations to overpower the Japanese if they met resistance at sea. I think a critical vulnerability of SWPA is that they had transport and logistics vessels, but not a strong fighting fleet. So they compensated for that Critical Vulnerability by bringing in 3rd Fleet.

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The Americans chose to take over the Philippines because it was a position that allowed them to sever Japan from the Southern Resource Area. They attacked from the East because there were few land fortifications

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I'm looking at it now

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I think it's basically just a summary.

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I can start working on the American COG analysis if someone else wants to start typing up the operational idea. Feedback on my COG analysis is welcome. I tried to do it based off everyone's comments.

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Bill  saw what you did, it looks great.  the operational ideas is all our ideas already listed?

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Hey Bill I'm online working on some class items

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Hi Brittney! I just did the COG analysis of Japan from the American POV.

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Anybody else online? I'm going to start working on the COG Analysis and then we still have to write the 1-2 paragraph Operational Idea.

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hello, I am working on the questions now.

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I’m going to get on the Padlet around 1330 and start working on this week’s task. If anyone else is on around then, we can zoom chat and work together.

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If there is interest in a zoom session is 1800 on Thursday ok? Does anyone have any suggestions? I will be honest, I am avoiding the last quiz score, and I should know how to answer the questions, distance learning has some draw backs.

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I posted this weeks material, I have changed the format, to organize it better but there are limitations to PADLET so if anyone has played around with the App before and has a better idea go for it.

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Marcus, I like the narrative concept.  Thank you

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The assignment is posted and uploaded.  This product is better, I will break down Task 3 tomorrow, thank you for posting thoughtful comments, you will see it tried to string all our thoughts into a narrative.

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Ray, no worries.

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Good afternoon all. I added some additional material to the dashboard. I will be TDY again OOA the week of 7 January but will have better connectivity this time. Sorry for the delay guys.

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Hey everyone. Sorry for being non comm but I just got back from TDY and then caught something nasty along the way. I will be working on this today to catch up.

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Brittney, its a work in progress, no one was in the room as of 1810 EST, we have until August to figure it out, and the groups will rotate, so hopefully we will work through the start up cost and things will get smoother, please take an opportunity to post on the main board as you see fit, and on to week three.

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is there a recording of anything

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I am logged in and do not see anyone in the chat.  Just realized that it probably because I am a hour behind eastern standard time

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Every one please take an opportunity to contribute to the main board, I will begin to consolidate thoughts tomorrow and post the product on Sunday, have a nice weekend.

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https://zoom.us/j/332480885

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Ok we are a still a go for 1800, should be quick.

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The URL for tomorrow is

https://zoom.us/j/332480885  the room will be open with no host, if I am unable to be in the room, but should be.  Firday 1800 est, no more than 30 minutes, tops.

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I think that Friday is just an opportunity to talk through the material, no worries if people cant make it, the main board has the questions posted and bill has taken a crack at the assignment

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got it thanks

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today is fine for me

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I’ll have a command event on Friday evening. Sorry.

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Friday at 1800?  I will set up at ZOOM session this evening for Friday at 1800, thank you for your Main Board contributions.

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Unit holiday party is at 1800 tomorrow. If anyone is around today, I’ll be working on some contributions/comments to the main padlet. I’ll look again on Friday too

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Sure, Thursday sounds fine but 1800 is better.

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Anybody want to commit to a zoom chat Wednesday and/or Thursday evening around 1700? Take 30 minutes or so to brainstorm

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I have uploaded the material for this weeks group project onto the main board.  The assignment looks more collaborative vs. work that can be broken down into individual tasks.  I would like to shoot for Saturday afternoon as a cut off for contribution, so that material is not being turned in the evening on Sunday.  Again I will package the groups work for submission.  It would be useful for this block of instruction for every one to contribute thoughts on each question. The comments section is not perfect, and requires you to hit enter when you are done but it offers a running tab of contributions on the material.  Please share your thoughts and cite the reference where you may have gained some information.  Please share any feedback to make this process smoother.

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No worries, this class is going to last months, the first assignment was a learning experience.  I uploaded what was available and took care of the rest, it is posted for everyone to view.

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I must not have entered it correctly, but I didn't do anything differently than I did for question 6. My bad. I'll watch for that it the future.

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I am going to turn in the assignment, I have posted the product on the main board.  Feel free to review.

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Questiosn 5 and 6 answered.

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Bill did you hit enter on your number 5 comment?  it does not save unless you hit that arrow or enter.

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Brittney  Thanks

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Team MacArthur Task 1 (Brittney Mayfield)

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I posted my answer to the other page on the question

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Marcus,  Sorry I just say you had posted the question with people names already.  Thank you got that

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These are the requirements for this week, I want to post here so people can sign up for a question, so far four of us have checked in, be prepared to do two, I will reach out group members that have not checked in tomorrow. I will post a template on the work board.

1. Describe U.S. policy towards ending the war (the desired end state).
Ray

2. What is the U.S. Strategic Objective in the Pacific?
Ray

3. The Pacific was divided into Theaters of War in 1942. MacArthur does not subdivide his Theater of War, which is an Allied Command (unlike POA). What is the Theater Objective for SWPA (MacArthur is Supreme Commander)?

Marcus

4. Based on this, what is the MacArthur’s Operational Objective for the upcoming Operation?
Marcus

5. Based on this Operational Objective, what Force must be employed?
Bill

6. Based on the Force, what is the Space required for this employment?
Bill

7. Based on the complexity of the Force and Space and the strategic risk involved, who is designated to plan and execute the Operation to achieve the operational objective?

Britteny

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Ray, got your feed back so take 1 and 2, I just put names to the rest of the questions.  I don't think war and peace is required.  I put notes for a few of the questions as place holders as I was watching the video.  The requirement is to answer the question, with references.  I will cut and paste all of the answers into a word doc Sunday afternoon.

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But who is answering what questions? I’d hate for us to all answer the same questions or. It’s one then scramble at the end.  I can volunteer to answer questions 1 and 2

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it five us in a group.  two people can answer 2 questions.  everyone else one question.  we can come together and see who has the best answers.

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Sorry was not logged in when I sent that.

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Have we decided on how to dive up the assignment? I would like to knock out as much as I can today.

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Marcus, is there a way to direct message you? And yes, I will add to those questions by Saturday.  Is there other questions somewhere else?

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I don't think so, as long as I have your email in my NIPR I will do it tomorrow, I think you can contribute now but cannot delete or change major themes.  I posted the questions on the MB and on the main board.  Cut an paste works and there is a requirement to site the material, I have added a few thoughts on a couple of the questions as I watch the video lecture.

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Brittney, Saturday is fine, I am not logged into my work email, can I get your email so you can be a modifier on Padlet and feel free to pick or contribute to any question on the main board.

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hello, I am all set up with both Padlet links and will be adding information by Saturday afternoon,  Is that ok?

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ok cool, I sent you an email.

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The canvass PADLET is kinda cumbersome, any suggestions or edits are welcome, the format can be changed so feel free to move that ball forward if any one has additional experience with this program.

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The deliverable is a word doc of all the answers and a link to Padlet.  I will handle the requirements for submission on Sunday.

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These are the requirements for this week, I want to post here so people can sign up for a question, so far four of us have checked in, be prepared to do two, I will reach out group members that have not checked in tomorrow. I will post a template on the work board.

1. Describe U.S. policy towards ending the war (the desired end state).
Ray

2. What is the U.S. Strategic Objective in the Pacific?
Ray

3. The Pacific was divided into Theaters of War in 1942. MacArthur does not subdivide his Theater of War, which is an Allied Command (unlike POA). What is the Theater Objective for SWPA (MacArthur is Supreme Commander)?

Marcus

4. Based on this, what is the MacArthur’s Operational Objective for the upcoming Operation?
Marcus

5. Based on this Operational Objective, what Force must be employed?
Bill

6. Based on the Force, what is the Space required for this employment?
Bill

7. Based on the complexity of the Force and Space and the strategic risk involved, who is designated to plan and execute the Operation to achieve the operational objective?

Britteny

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Checking in. Good idea to use padlet as a message board.

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Hello!

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