(Lyka describes the code of conduct needed in a crunch situation. She goes over the preparation plans that can be made ahead of time and the importance of having a well-trained team in place. How that team should conduct themselves with the leader of the team is stressed due to the failure that comes from a lack of a good command structure.) 

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Lyka: okay.

Russ: okay, greetings and hi, hi, hi.

Lyka: thank you.

Russ: it’s good to have you back again.

Lyka: okay, I hear the format has changed somewhat.

Russ: somewhat yes.

Lyka: okay and I’m supposed to give a dissertation.

Russ: yeah.

Lyka: okay…..

Russ: we do make allowances of course.

Lyka: code of conduct….

Russ: oh, okay.

Lyka: in crunch situations and dealing with preparation of those crunch situations being appropriate behavior. It is necessary to plan for eventualities, list the eventualities that are possible in an outcome in current situations. You take known facts, known past events and how they resulted in the end in their outcomes. In this preparation and analyzing the data necessary for the preparation, you have to look at each possible outcome and prepare for each possible outcome. Ideally you wish to have 10 possible outcomes with 10 preparations. Each preparation must be available. For example, you have 10 possibilities, you have 10 plans. To design and structure responses for these outcomes in such a way that it is possible to take one plan and apply it to a different scenario. For example, if you have to have equipment ready to transport, that equipment must fit into at least a minimum of two possible outcomes, preferably higher. So therefore you’re not straining yourself logistically and these outcomes are working in order, an order that is necessary for the desired survival. So, you plan 10 outcomes, you have equipment for each outcome, preferably the equipment can be cross-used in two or more possible outcomes. Now, also in preparation is training such as building up the physique. This can be done numerous ways from jogging, riding your two wheeled vehicles that are powered by your legs, a exercise regime of chin-ups, push-ups, press ups, frog hops, running on the spot, sparring using an assortment of equipments and hand-to-hand techniques but bearing in mind that when it gets down to hand-to-hand techniques you’re in deep doo doo. Being able to fix up individuals that have been harmed, basic battlefield medicine. Now the possible outcomes, let us go from the worst and I will take one from the worst and one from the best. The worst being all-out, hoof it, outnumbered, in deep doo doo, the $#*@& has hit the fan and it’s coming down. That is where a cohesive, drilled team is necessary to work in a unit of individuals with maximum capability bent on one plan and one plan only and that is survival, that is predominant in all scenarios. In survival it is necessary to do whatever is necessary. In the command structure, the commands by the commanding individual should be followed without question. As soon as there is a breakdown in the command structure you’re doomed. You are…..I’m not quite sure with the word is.

Russ: deep %$#*#?

Lyka: no it’s worse than that. The importance of the team working as a unit with one purpose, each individual members of the team have a specific duty. Best case scenario, basically it’s just securing a perimeter and maintaining a low profile. Very simple, very basic, the team gets together and trains from time to time in a cohesive unit. But, that is for you decide on what the scenarios and possible outcomes are, I cannot give you that kind of information. I can aid you in……no I can’t aid you, wish I could. However, I can aid you in another way….

Russ: okay.

Lyka: mind games, strategies, fighting against outnumbered odds and how you survive. Okay, do you have any questions?

Russ: yeah, one of the problems is keeping a low profile. Even in the best-case scenario and all the way to the worst-case it’s always necessary.

Lyka: correct.

Russ: okay, getting a drilled team together……

Lyka: uh-huh.

Russ: this is something that you should have it setup already and with new members who might come in that could be useful, you need to train them up as fast as possible I assume.

Lyka: correct.

Russ: okay. Now, how do we make sure that those people in a crunch situation will follow the commander to the T. They might say they do, how do you really find out? Test them?

Lyka: no, you will see how they respond to the commanding officer……

Russ: hmm okay.

Lyka: in everyday interactions when he is not or she is not being the commanding officer. My company respects me, I've proved myself to them, they will do what I tell them to do. Even when we are sitting in the mess having a fun time, my company will do as I will tell them to do.

Russ: okay, excellent.