ERRAND

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an errand would be a person or group sent by an officer to accomplish a delivery, task or duty and not sent by Operations but by someone else. This would require briefing by the officer sending, preferably taped, or at least with a carbon copy of the orders on which the person or group were briefed. The errand ends when the person or group have made a full report to Operations on what they did, accomplished and observed and when the Ops Officer is satisfied that the errand has been successfully carried out. The difference between an errand and a mission is that missions are sent by an Operations Officer, errands are sent by anyone else. When an errand involves more than one day it should be handled by Operations not by some other division. It then becomes a mission. (FO 2530R)