Candidate Lofswold Case Summary

Did the union violate Title I, Section 101(a) of the Landrum-Griffin Act in this case? If so, what should be the appropriate remedy?

This interest in firefighting helped Grace out on one eventful Saturday. This day started out as any other day for the people at the 1st Street Machine Shop. Around 9:30 A.M. one of the machines exploded, due to a wiring issue. The employees did their best to evacuate the building, but when they took a head count, one person was missing. John Smith was working in the back office and could not make it to an exit.

Candidate Farmer briefed all required portions of the five paragraph order but did so in a very drawn out manner with multiple pauses throughout. His initial plan was sufficient to begin execution, but only his side began to take action immediately. He was unable to identify that the one pole was not long enough to reach the middle beam and only made adjustments after a fire team member pointed it out. At this point, SNC changed his initial plan and started giving direction, but his tasks were unclear and his fire team members struggled to accomplish them. Candidate Farmer realized his time was dwindling and motivated the fire team to move with some urgency, which they responded to. This spark was all that was necessary to complete the

Candidate Horton showed a firm grasp of the OSMEAC format and briefed a solid five paragraph order with confidence. The information he briefed was accurate based off the information provided to him by the evaluator. SNC focused on safety as well, instructing his fire team during coordinating instructions to not throw any of the equipment without being told by the evaluator. SNC's tasking statements contained purpose, showing he put some thought into how each member could be utilized to meet the objective and accomplish the mission. SNC addressed the tactical situation and ensured security was posted before briefing the order. SNC was clearly in charge of his fire team. SNC made good use of his fire team, ensuring security was posted at

. If a store says there was a price mistake in an ad, do they still have to sell the advertised item at the advertised price?

Candidate Hall was unable to effectively manage his time during the conduct of the evaluation. After receiving his brief, he took the opportunity to conduct an initial leader’s reconnaissance. Once the tower directed that his ten minutes to complete the mission had begun he spent an additional two and a half minutes looking at the obstacle and preparing his order. Once he finally called his fire team over, it took an additional two minutes to complete his brief. He maintained good eye contact with his fire team but was not very confident in his delivery as evident by repeatedly clearing his throat and struggling with stating a mission both times he briefed it. During execution he also had a nonchalant approach. When he was given a penalty,

Candidate mullins delivered his five paragraph order with minor errors. SNC established security prior to the start of his brief. Before delivering his order it was evident that SNC possessed a strong command presence. SNC’s tasks were unclear, and were displayed through the confusion amongst his fire team during the execution. SNC failed to properly brief his Coordinating Instructions, this caused questions to arise during the execution. Candidates were confused about what they could or could not utilize during the execution. SNC was not confident and was aware that he missed pertinent information, because he would pause during his brief attempting to account for the information he missed but could not gather his thoughts. During the execution

Candidate Mubarek’s brief showed a lack of requisite knowledge, especially in regards to the execution paragraph. The scheme of maneuver seemed to be a blend with tasking statements given during this part of the order with no real overall general plan briefed, only specific by name tasks. SNC had also failed to brief the complete command and signal paragraph by only briefing succession of command and no location of key leaders and/or a signal plan. The actual execution of the problem led to the navigation Marine to get off track, showing SNC he needs to inspect what he expects and check/balance an azimuth to an objective. Upon enemy contact, which I the instructor had to tell him he was being fired at, SNC organized his team quickly however

Candidate Perreault’s major failure during his planning and brief of his event was his inability to brief a SOM. He was accurate in displaying an initial plan by his tasks assigned to his FT. However, the tasks did not follow the 5 W’s format. Once in execution, SNC was very deliberate and successful with communicating his intentions to his team members. SNC continued to include the security team member in his intentions by periodically stepping back and making sure that the security team member was aware of the plan’s actions. Candidate Perreault had a keen awareness in approaching his team member’s abilities once on the obstacle, i.e. making sure they kept him up to date on whether or not they were able to physically complete what he

For years if not decades, firefighters have responded to a reported structure fire that turned out to be a fully involved single room. This fire scenario requires a core set of fire tactics and skills to control and extinguished the fire, but is it this simple? Perhaps twenty years it may have been, but new dangers are lurking in every scenario and may have detrimental outcomes for unsuspecting and unaware firefighters and victims. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) agency along with the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) have been conducting research to understand fire behavior and fire dynamics. This research is providing firefighters with new information about how and why

Marc Woerner, Zoning Officer reminded the Planning members that they heard the Hawkins variance request last month and that the Hawkins will be going before the Zoning Hearing Board on the 28th of March. He noted the next zoning case will be for the YMCA for a sign variance, that they will hear at this meeting.

“We saw a team who were fire fighting issues, but found that there was a lack of planning for the future. The

Candidate Helman is a very confident individual. His brief was strong and instilled a sense of confidence in the other fire team members. SNC issued tasks to each member, though he did not post security at any time. Candidate Helman achieved the difficult balance of remaining calm while maintaining a sense of urgency among his team. SNC stayed focused on accomplishing the mission, even though his team got stuck at the beginning of the obstacle. This initially caused Candidate Helman to hesitate to make a decision. However, once the first fire team member reached the top of the first wall of the obstacle, SNC began to issue orders and give guidance in a very quick and effective manner. At this point, SNC drove his team ahead with a great

SNC delivered four of the five paragraphs when briefing his team. Command and Signal was omitted by topic and content. SNC was confident in his delivery of the brief utilizing good volume and eye contact with this team. SNC did have an initial plan that was able to be executed and moved his team into action quickly. The initial plan did not account for getting down from the obstacle. SNC lost some control during the execution of the plan. He directed a team member to post security which went ignored and he did not correct. At the initial point of friction SNC was unable to make a change to his plan at which time another candidate took the initiative to navigate his way to the top. SNC was unable to modify his initial course of action to continue

Session held at the client's home. When DI arrived to session, Lomax's mom promoted Lomax to say hi to DI and look at the eyes. During session Lomax need it 4 directive prompt most of the time he was able to follow instructions given by DI or client's mom. Lomax need it to be promot verbally to help mom move the back yard couches and table. During session Lomax clean up his bathroom, room and wash some dishes without verbal prompt. Great session