The rabbit hole is deep on ways to analyze terrain and weather in order to determine their impacts on your mission, but it can also be as simple as studying a map and checking the forecast.

This month, Michael works through the first T in METT-TC using the acronym KOCOA-W and the accompanying article is a more in-depth breakdown of each consideration with some additional references listed if you want to learn more.

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