Search procedure with room owners

A disciplined, repeatable method for collecting evidence quickly.

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's framework, from Extreme Ownership, pp. 183 to 261.

Assign roles
One sketches the layout, one labels rooms, one photographs evidence.
Name a room owner
One operator owns everything in each room.
Search floor up
Search systematically so nothing is missed or dumped on the floor.
Bag and label
Keep evidence by room with the finder's name.
Mark rooms done
Put an X through each searched room number.
Hand over with chain of custody
The room owner hands evidence to intelligence back at base.

From chapter: III. Sustaining Victory, pp. 183–261

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