I did 20 yrs never saw combat but I did see plenty of deployed time. Guess I'm just not the right person to answer this question. However, I saw a lot of things used by us first go out to civlant or civpac.
I will actually be giving a lecture on this at the JEMS conference in March, shoot me an email if you would like to discuss this offline, @ crowleyd@davisdefense.com, Thanks