Importance of Securing Equipment

The Importance of Sensitive Item Accountability

A Case Study

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

For want of a horse the rider was lost.

For want of a rider the message was lost.

For want of a message the battle was lost.

For want of a battle the Kingdom was lost.

And all for the want of a nail.

-Voltaire

(In Reference to the battle of Agincourt 200 years earlier)

During the course of any military operation much often depends on key and decisive points that drastically effect further actions thereby ultimately determining success or failure. Entire invasions of continents can be planed, prepared, and executed with detail and precision that is seldom displayed by humanity in other arenas; and yet years of strategic effort and labor can be lost due to the smallest and most unnoticed actions or lack thereof. Events can quickly snowball out of control. Rarely is this better illustrated than the Battle of Pointe Du Hoc.

Pointe Du hoc is a strategically vital section of key terrain intersecting Omaha and Utah beaches on the Atlantic cost of Normandy. After Nazi troops swept through France in 1940, Hitler Immediately began construction of his famed “Atlantic wall” which was a series of fortifications spanning the entire coastline of France,...