GETTING TO THE OBJECTIVE: DEVELOPING Junior Military Intelligence Leaders IN A TIME OF WAR

The mission started early in the morning. Two tactical human intelligence (TAC HUMINT) teams, weapons at the ready, moved through an urban area to meet with a potential source. As the first team took up defensive positions around the coffee shop, the second team moved inside to conduct a "meet" with a local Iraqi national. After half an hour of rapport-building, questioning and sensitizing of the source to the team's needs, the TAC HUMINT team moved out on foot back to their link-up point with their escort team. Suddenly, shots rang out; the team was in contact and received heavy machine-gun fire. After taking cover, the team immediately returned fire, suppressed the threat, bounded back …