Situation Reports / Headquarters
TFCO MINOR SITREP/17 - January 22

Major James

Chairman
UNITAF

Welcome all to the latest minor SITREP, and indeed the first of many in 2022. The SITREP is the primary communication detailing roadmap progression and changes to SOP - it contains key updates from the senior staff and from across the senior chain of command.

At least in this addition, the minor SITREP will recap on detailed changes since the last Major sitrep (in case you missed them) as well as give some indication of whats on the horizon, wheras the Major sitreps will be where we implement the most change.

Server Issues / New Server

During November December, I noted the performance issues, and of well over 700 deployments I recall cancelling only 3 in the last 3 years to server issues, one of those was recently on Operation Polaris. We continue to make adjustments on this front more conservatively to optimise performance but with a focus on stability. All deployments from this SITREP will also take place on the new hardware which has a better CPU and core count than our 2020-2021 hardware.

Below are a number of updates from our ongoing Continual Standard Operating Procedure Improvement Programmes (CSIPs)

CSIP Core Infantry

concerns the following Core Infantry procedures;
 

• (P3-184) Weapon control statuses - updated to version 3
  • split out from LOAC, updated and better defined usage on weapons states (red/orange/green)
  • Effective immediately
     
• (P3-9) Rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict - updated to version 3
  • expanded with detail
  • Effective immediately
     
• (P3-155) Captured persons (CPERS) - updated to version 3
  • expanded with detail and more procedures.
  • Effective immediately
     
• (P3-181) Movement: Peel - updated to version 2
  • This new movement technique has been introduced and specified
  • More FTXs will be scheduled to drill this in completely.
  • This will be added to recruit training
  • Effective immediately

Many thanks to Pvt Minipily and Pvt Johnson working in the LOAC/CPERS CSIP and SFC Skullcollector for Movement.

Leadership CSIP Update

You'll see a number of trial ORBATs in the schedule with varying Squad sizes, as you'll know our default Squad is 15 men, and you'll see a variance between 9 and 15 man squads as part of the CSIP trials.

Medical CSIP Update

You'll see some trial ORBATs without Squad Medics, and the usage of Combat Medical Teams on platoon ORBATs, this is part of CSIP testing.

Updated to version 2201.22 Effective immediately

1. Disabled retrieval of GPS from UNITAB for all deployments
2. Prevented convertion of FAKs to ACE medical items, to counter duplication bug
3. Balancing for weapon overheating due to ACE update allowing suppressor coefficient
4. GRAD trenches settings re-added

GRAD Trenches

Trenches dug with the Entrenching tool now return to GRAD trenches. Effective immediately

- Camouflage your trench with small bushes
- New trenches to place
- Short trench to quickly provide cover for 1-2 soldiers
- New digging sound effects and visual effects

• Map - Kujari has been approved
• GRAD Tranches has been re-approved

Annual Survey Reminder

If you have not already, please be reminded that the Annual Survey will stop accepting Subissions on 23:59 UTC on Monday January 31st 2022. 
If you have not submitted now is the time to do so: https://unitedtaskforce.net/communications/topic/82

I would add a massive thank you to those who have already done so, we have had exceptional uptake from the total force this year, and we'll circle back to talk about the results over the coming months.

4 Troop

As you'll know, we are preparing to open 4 Troop to support our future growth, which will take place within the next month or so. Selections for all roles related to it's formation are ongoing.

Role Certification System

As announced in TAFFCAST 10, the Role Certification System (RCS) will be launched in the next SITREP;

• If you missed it, you can listen to TAFFCAST here
• If you are looking for a summary of RCS you can find it here
   

What I can tell you is that on launch, the RCS will start with the Radio Operator Certification, and then shortly after all other Communications roles.

• The current version of the RTO Certification can be found here this will give you an idea of what role abilities look like.

Shortly after Communications roles are introduced, Leadership, Aircrew and Marksmanship will follow. More updates on this as they come, but do expect changes as this is in-development.

Schedule Conflict Management

It's now possible to control schedule conflicts by preventing deployments on overlapping ORBATs or re-runs. On ORBATs that have schedule conflicts, you'll get a warning an link to any conflicting ORBATs - this will open up more creative opportunities for the schedule.

If you are deployed on one of them, you'll be prevented from deploying on the other, and be shown a warning.

Updated Active Personnel Chart

The active personnel chart has been updated to include a new section for Support Staff. This is designed to make it easier to know who to contact if you'd like to get involved in some of the support teams, such as mission making or training and SOP.
This lists the key personnel who are active in those areas and sits just under the active force chart.

SOP Change Request Notifications

When SOP change requests are approved, notifications will now be sent to the relevant J6 channel to notify the requestor and other interested personnel about the change and it's detail

SOP Viewing Statistics

We've now extended the SOP viewing statistics to show not only the total number of views, but how many members of the Active Force have verifiably read the SOP.
There is the possibility that they have read the SOP while logged out, so this figure should be perceived as a worst case scenario in any case.

ORBAT Viewing Statistics

We've also extended viewing statistics to ORBATs, which in the key information section will show the total number of views and how many unqiue active force members have viewed the ORBAT.

Operations and Campaign Orders Viewing Statistics

Again, similar data for the viewing of Operations Orders (OPORDS) and Campaign Briefings can be found in the toolbar. This is to better help us understand how the are used.

UNISOCIAL Updates

You can now filter by owned games only

Active rallies are shown with Discord Voice links.

Campaign Specific Media

While this existed before, it was not working. But it is now fixed and possible to access all media for an entire campaign by going to the Campaign Center, Media tab. This draws screenshots from all Dossiers where the user uploaded the image to an ORBAT from said campaign.

Campaign Center Nationality Flags

Added the nationality of the Campaigns Factions to the Campaign Center and Operations Schedule, each campaign can now have mutliple flags.

UNISTATS / Campaign Center Statistical Updates

The Campaign Center has been overhauled with new statistics, starting with a full breakdon on the last 6 months of operations by type, and upcoming. As well as for the first time, a full breakdown of Campaign Statistics by Rating, Performance, Slots Deployed and Hours

We have also dded an interactive / live visualization of the all-time combat operations size/rating scatter graph to UNISTATS which shows every combat operation as a single point in time, with trend lines for size and ratings.

You can find a persional version of this chart in your Dossier Account page, or via Dossier management for ORGCOC.

Dossier Management

Messages sent automatically by the bot are now logged and viewable in dossier management

Ability to Global Search for Campaigns, Roles and Communications

The Campaign Center, Roles Center and Comms Center have been added to global search.