Military Running estimate

the S-3 of the 6th Ranger Battalion conducting mission analysis on 27 January 1945 at the Ranger base camp at Calasiao on the Lingayen Gulf. Provide a complete
movement estimate that LTC Mucci and his staff would use to develop plans and analyze various courses of action. Although you have the benefit of hindsight, write your
running estimate as you would have on 27 Jan (in the present or future tense) rather than as an AAR of what actually occurred (in the past tense). Although there are
some guides and formats to a generic estimate (FM 6-0 Chapter 8), as well as a sample medical estimate included with this examination, you can modify those formats or
develop one to help you present your analysis to LTC Mucci. Your movement estimate should include, but is not limited to:

• Time available to conduct the operation before the Japanese decide to move or murder the POWs, and how much time to allocate to planning, preparation and execution.

• Maintaining secrecy in varied terrain during day and night operations.

• The appropriate balance of speed and security.

• The best time of day to initiate actions on the objective.

• The anticipated distances covered by, rates of movement for and time required to:
o the Ranger advance to the POW Camp
o actions on the objective
o the movement of Rangers & former POWs and 6th Army to a link-up point
o Japanese counterattacks.

• How Filipino civilians and guerrillas, as well as the US Army Air Corps can help expedite friendly forces or impede enemy forces.

Essentially, your estimate should explain to LTC Mucci how the Rangers can get to the compound before the Japanese make the decision to move or murder the POWs, and
how the task force and former POWs can link up with 6th Army before the Japanese catch that vulnerable group. Your analysis of time and distance should identify
planning considerations to allow you to lead the MDMP process properly.
Remember, the goal of the estimate is to help LTC Mucci plan for this mission by providing him specific information he probably doesn’t know, rather than general ideas
which he probably does know. For example, stating that the POWs will move slowly is not helpful to LTC Mucci, while ESTIMATING that the POWs could move at one mile per
hour for three hours before needing two hours for food and rest could be helpful to LTC Mucci and his staff.