While nobody really looked forward to changing teams after having invested so much time with the guys they had lived, trained, traveled, and fought with, cross-pollinating was an indispensable tool not just for personal improvement, but for enhancing our own competencies, as well. The intra-exchange led to greater shared learning across the community and bridged any communicative gaps that pervaded the command since each member had his own informal network of operators with whom he would confide and share information.
