INT-22 ACE/LACE — Squad Readiness Reporting

INT-22 · Intelligence Series

ACE/LACE Reports

Squad-Level Readiness Assessment in Small-Unit Tactics

Why This Course

“Everyone good?” — “Yeah, we’re good.” That exchange happens after every incident, in every untrained group, and it produces nothing a leader can act on. It invites the answer the leader obviously wants, it asks a yes-or-no question about a condition that is never yes-or-no, and it leaves each person guessing at what they were even being asked. The decision that follows — push on or turn back, hold or displace, handle it or call for help — then gets made on a feeling.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Take a full LACE report from your family, group, or MAG in under two minutes, built from counts rather than from impressions.
  • Convert raw counts into colour bands against a standard you set in advance, and defend where each band sits.
  • Aggregate individual reports into an element-level picture without averaging away the one person who is short.
  • Redistribute everything fixable inside the group before a single request leaves it.
  • Read a Red report and name the specific decision it forces when no resupply is coming.

Lessons 01–05

Lesson 01The Question Behind the Report: “Can We Fight On?”Why a standardized own-status report exists, what ACE and LACE hold, and why it is never blended with a report about the threat.
Lesson 02Categories and the Color-Code LogicWhat each of the four slots actually measures, where the colour bands sit, and why a colour carries more decision value than a number.
Lesson 03The Aggregation Flow: Individual to Team to SquadWhat each level does with the data it receives, why aggregation is not averaging, and the redistribution step that comes before any request.
Lesson 04Applying ACE/LACE in Family, Group, and MAG ContextsWhat carries over to a flat structure, what a Red report means when nothing is inbound, and the honest-reporting problem underneath it all.
Lesson 05Capstone: Aggregate and DecideA full scenario worked end to end: fragmentary reports in, an aggregated picture and a defensible decision out.

How This Course Works

Element Detail
Format Five online lessons, released in sequence. Each one runs roughly 25–35 minutes.
Knowledge checks Every lesson ends its sections with questions. Answer all of them correctly and the next lesson unlocks.
Prerequisites None. INT-03 pairs naturally with this course, since it covers reporting on the threat rather than on yourself, but it is not required first.
Companion guide A printable reference of condensed tables and blank worksheets, available to subscribers alongside the lessons.
What you supply Your own roster and your own standard. The worksheets are deliberately blank, because a threshold copied from another group is not one you can defend.
Progress Tracked in this browser, on this device. Completing lessons on a phone will not unlock them on a laptop.

 

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Fortune Favors the Prepared — Semper Paratus, Semper Gumby

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