Brief /Debrief

[beccaelizabeth]

Dear fanfic writers:

Briefings and Debriefings are not the same thing.
I checked with dictionaries. In military context they are distinct.

If your agent is getting information from his boss, that's a briefing.
If your agent is giving information to his boss, that's a debriefing.

Briefings usually happen before an op.
Debriefing usually happens after.

Your agent can also run a briefing, informing people of things they're going to need on an upcoming op, or in general being the one with the knowing.
Or they can run a debriefing, where someone else has the knowing after an op and your agent is asking all the questions.

Yeah they kind of blur together around the edges, but you don't get debriefed about an op that hasn't happened yet, or in a meeting where you know nothing and are going to get informed. Those are briefings.

I realise this shouldn't bother me. But it reads to me like a typo every single time. The urge to go around correcting other people's typos is always great.
... in the unhelpful yet large sense.

/picky

Comments

[baronjanus]

Useful info.