[@KatherinWinter]

You should probably be paying closer attention then, because according to [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4694147]Amaya herself in-roleplay[/url] she was only recruited the day prior to the mission.

An individual with as much experience as the director should be fully aware that basing important tactical decisions on untested assumptions is the fastest way to screw over an operation. He may have had no reason to believe Griffin wouldn't be a natural leader, but he also had no reason to assume that he would be one; any leader worth his salt would have hedged his bets and made sure there was someone or something in place in the event he made a mistake in assuming Griffin would be able to take charge. Giving individual agents their own specific directives, establishing a second in command, or having a direct line of communication so he himself would be able to issue orders to the men in the field (every military and police force on the planet has at least one of these things. Mission control, central dispatch, and so on.)

The FBI for example sends agents out from field offices in major cities, agents in the field receiver orders from their local office, which serves as their mission control.

I REALLY hate to be the guy who constantly back-talks the GM, but these are VERY important details that have been overlooked, and in-game the absolute disaster the mission became could have been averted completely if command had been making regular check ins and requesting status reports; something that every government agency does because of how crucially important it is to maintain a functional communication web when fielding a major operation.

How do I know these things? I come from a family of police officers and soldiers. I've never served myself (too many health problems, mental and physical), but you pick up a lot of details from talking to people who have experience in these matters.

Mistakes were made both by field agents AND by HQ; and the mistakes of the agents could have been prevented by, before starting the roleplay, establishing OOC what BOSA's field procedures are.

I read the entire roleplay prior to joining it myself, and it is readily apparent that the time was not taken to put together any sort of field manual that would give the players a basis with which they could establish their character's understanding of procedure, without any information on how the agency operates how do you expect characters to act as if they had been trained properly?