I'm going to have a conversation with Thomas in mumble about this event, and I'm going to demand an answer on how the issues we faced will be avoided going forward. I think there are some obvious answers:
1. The initial security checkpoints don't need to be secluded park. A walmart like 25 minutes away is more than suitable. That way the location basically cannot get compromised.
2. Phones should not have been returned to everyone before going to the vehicle exchange. Two phones MAXIMUM should have been given to each vehicle. One of those phones should have been the navigator who is someone that is heavily trusted such as an ND, prospective ND, or someone like Jason NY. The secondary phone would be turned off but there as a back up in case.
3. The Uhaul trucks should have left the infiltration point once they saw that we were halfway across the Potomac. They should have parked elsewhere or just driven around while remaining within 5 minutes of the exfiltration point. Then they can come back to it to get us. This avoids them getting damaged.
4. The vehicle exchange location itself should almost never be a park. It should be an abandoned parking lot of some sort ideally. Parks have people come and go. Police and Bureaucrats routinely check parks on their routes. Also, box trucks stick out like a sore thumb at a park of that size.
5. Those guarding the vehicle exchange location need to be more vigilant and focused on the task at hand. They should not be on their phones, on their laptops, or napping in a back seat. They should be watching the lot almost every second, and they should even patrol it every now and then if its large enough.
6. Finally, travel leads need to be instructed to more properly formalize what their parties are on the way to the event and on their way from the event. There were a lot of travel party changes, sometimes justified sometimes arbitrary, which lead to immense inconvenience and confusion. Travel leads MUST be a designated group with a channel for the event. They should be REQUIRED to state who all is in their party when leaving the event before they leave. That way everyone can be accounted for.