Reporters who do reach the press service receive one-page situation reports, which are issued twice daily but provide few battlefield details.
At the same time he is on a second radio, passing situation reports (sit-reps) to his battalion commander.
"What you have here is thousands of, basically, the equivalent of telephone logs, situation reports," he said.
Avenue Poupelard provides a less encouraging picture of the reach of aid, services and information than that found in official situation reports.
It issued daily situation reports, devising a color-code system "just like the federal government does to track the terrorist threat level," said Matthew Carmichael, governmental affairs director for Chevron in New Orleans.
These participants, in the winter of 2001, received daily situation reports and a twice-weekly workload forecast, and the accuracy rose to an average of 65percentnt - and up to 100percentnt in some regions.
Dr. Shirvani N. Gadayev, deputy chief of the hospital, provided several statistics that never turn up in the Russian military's situation reports: the number of civilians killed or wounded as a result of the Russian barrage.
Every day the German military transmitted thousands of coded messages, ranging from orders signed by Adolf Hitler and detailed situation reports prepared by generals at the front line down through weather reports and supply ship inventories.
The analysis for Typhoon Haiyan used only information found in the NDRRMC situation reports available on their website.
Fig. 2 Number of emergency response activities in both earthquakes (Source: author's calculation from various situation reports).
Fig. 3 Number of agencies involved during emergency response of both earthquakes (Source: author's calculation from various situation reports).
