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This is why you run frequent, aggressive patrols. I'm not certain why the commanders on the scene failed to do this.
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Well, based on the history, the commander had to a single platoon augmented by a few Engineers and three Marines (who were technically there as trainers for the 24 ANA soldiers).
With that he had to run security for the outpost, man the OP, and build the outpost. They actually had scheduled a joint ANA/Army patrol for 4:30am on the morning of the attack and even then some of the troops felt they were spread too thin for that patrol. That patrol never went out because the attack kicked off first.
The construction was also complicated by Army regs calling for 50 minutes of rest for every 10 minutes of hard labor in that kind of heat. With the limited water (they could only carry in what they brought on the HMMWVs) and the rest requirements, it would make it even harder to use what manpower they did have.