Sunday's outing.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I was waiting until I could review everyone's mission reports - and until I wasn't in quite so much pain. I hate to sound snippier than I should.

Bluntly put, I am not pleased. Yes, we got the kid back reasonably intact, which was the important thing, but it was sloppily done - specifically by the retrieval team. If Toad hadn't been alone, we'd have been in serious trouble. And yes, I am going to say this in public, because I'm annoyed and would also like to encourage those who weren't there to read the team reports as a good example of how not to conduct a rescue mission.

Kylun: All right, so I don't actually have a lot to say to you. Just bad luck that you were seen while you were scouting the hallway, and you dealt with it quickly and efficiently enough.

Shiro: To reiterate, I don't care that you beat up on a girl, although from the sounds of it, you should have hit her harder to start with. No, what's still chapping my ass is the fact that I had the damned door under control. If you thought you could have helped me speed things up, fine. But you damned well ask and wait for my okay before you stick your hand anywhere near my line of sight while I'm using my optic blast. Especially for precision work!

Sam: I'm going to staple your mouth shut, Guthrie, I swear. The next time some witty comment is on its way out of your mouth in the field, bite your tongue. Preferably hard.

Cain and Logan: I'm terribly impressed that you managed to wind up rendered blind and deaf, respectively. That takes true talent. That being said, you got the job done, and at least you both have natural advantages that meant you had no chance of winding up crippled for life.

And just in case anyone feels the need to point out that I missed someone:

Scott: I made entirely too much use of my optic blasts in that one green room, actually let the retrieval team split up - safety above speed, Summers - and most egregiously, wasted time trying to figure out how we could get out with Kyle and somehow make sure Toad wound up in the hands of the authorities. So much for that idea.

Suffice to say, we're going to be drilling on this sort of thing. Extensively. Because our students will be stupid rather like the sun will come up in the east every morning, so we can't let longer-than-usual breaks from this sort of thing prevent us from being prepared for the next time.

Comments

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Is there a DR scenario of the mission up and running yet? It's easier for me when I can "see" what happened.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you send boys to do a job.

Let's get the girls together and run it, hey?

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Oh, very funny.

On the other hand, maybe the problem was an overabundance of testosterone. You may have a point.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

I always have a point. It's a gift.

You should go take a nap. Or a vacation.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I do not need a nap. Or a vacation. I have far too much work to do for either.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

You need BOTH a nap and a vacation. Because you have too much work to do.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Lorna, don't harass me. I'll be in bed in three hours - sleep can wait until then.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

You know, sleep deprivation drives people crazy. Look at Angie.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I am not depriving myself of sleep. I don't need any more than four hours or so, most nights.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

So says a man on his way to reaggravating his ulcer and possibly some sort of messy breakdown.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Already had it.

And the ulcer's fine.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Another one. And it's fine now.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I am crazy all on my own without the lack of sleep. That just makes it -worse-.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

I say lets do it...it'll be interesting see how it turns out. You up for coordinating the group for sometime this week?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Me? Um. Sure. Let's see who else volunteers and if we don't get enough takers we'll start to recruit.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Would jumping in your lap be too forward?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Ah, the other Guthrie. Puuurrrrrrrfect.

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

Perhaps this is how we ought to split the team permanently.

...or perhaps I should wait to see how the scenario goes. But I am in either way.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Don't you think that makes our team unfairly powerful? We'd have to send the boys out only against the really small threats.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Count me in. Let me know when you need me. I promise not to hit girls or .. wait, I am not sure I can promise that. I have no problems with hitting other women.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Soon as it's finished being built which...well, that really depends Captain Grumpy and Overworked.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

It's done. Just finished it.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Rock on, Captain G&O. Now you go nap, we'll give you a copy of the run for your very own self to critique later.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

There will be by 3am.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only one not sleeping. And...um, I need to talk to you when you get a chance - after you get some rest though.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You could always catch me during my morning run. 6am, as per usual.

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

Praised with faint damns, is that what they call it?

Careful, Slim. Someone's going to think you're trying to compliment someone.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You get scenarios working on your ability to duck. What good is being unstoppable if you get taken down by mud and flying... whatever the hell that was? Maybe I just ought to issue you goggles as part of your uniform...

Slim's got a bug up his ass...

[x-wolverine.livejournal.com]

But I gotta say, it's lodged up there for good reason.

That clap-thing of yours is a cute trick, but we gotta find a way to keep it from blowing out my eardrums. That hurt.

[x-kylun.livejournal.com]

I was slow, and careless; my parents' house did not afford me time and space to properly maintain my skills, and it showed. I am correcting the problem.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I do think it was mostly bad luck, Kylun, but I'm certainly not going to argue with you about more training always being good.

[x-cannonball.livejournal.com]

If this is less snippy, I'd hate to see your initial reactions.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

We were in the room with Toad, Sam. I know the tendency might be to regard him as kind of laughable on some levels, but he's not. And you being witty encouraged Kyle, which distracted me - do you see where I'm going here?

[x-scarletwitch.livejournal.com]

If Sam is being chastised for being witty during combat, which seems to be the only thing you're mad at him for, then you should have been chastising me on all the missions I've been on.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You've never done it when we're in the room with one of the Brotherhood and a beaten-to-crap student, Wanda.

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

There is a reason why we train our bodies and our minds for these situations - not our mouths. Speaking should ideally be limited to communicating with the team, calming victims, and trying to diffuse a situation if it seems possible to do so with words. Taunting dangerous foes is not an effective combat strategy, and as Scott said above, carries harmful repercussions.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

*cough*

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

We've all made with the funny at some point. I can see Cyclops point though. When you do it and someone gets hurt because you're too busy being Eddie Izzard...well, better to not. The point is distracting the bad guy, not distracting your teammates.

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

I noticed you're leaving out the fact that we still chalk this one up in the Win column. Got the kid out, and even got the cops backing us up shutting down that rinky-dink fight club operation.

Quit second-guessing stuff. Ain't like anyone lost an eye or nothing. Well, again.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Was that supposed to be a shot?

In any case, I'm done - like I said, the scenario's written. So we drill, and we avoid making the same mistakes next time. All of us.

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

Call it a shot, call it a suggestion to quit bitching about minor stuff and accept that we did good out there. So the little slimy weasel got away. We didn't manage to catch him in Miami, either, and you weren't shitting a brick over that.

No one came back on a stretcher, and other than some bumps and bruises less intense than one of the Danger Room sessions - no one even had to spend more than a minute or two getting checked by the docs.

Yeah, it was sloppy. There's a saying "No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy". Things went chaotic and we STILL pulled it out and got our people home safe.

You might have overlooked THAT detail in the whole fault-finding crusade.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I'm done. The scenario's written, we'll all run it at some point this week.