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Originally posted by bunny shooter View PostWouldn't that constitute mutiny?
just means nobody will put there necks out for you
thats if the rumour is true
and the army does love there rumours and never let the truth get in the way
all it will do is drive a big wedge between both sides end of story
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Originally posted by SwiftandSureFor me, I'm happy with the re-org.
It's exactly what we needed to remove the deadwood from the organisation and build a training tempo similar to that of the PDF.
Allegedly, I heard second hand last night, we'll even receive the same scale of issue as the PDF (which offends my Gucci sensibilities). Whether that transpires will remain to be seen.
Furthermore, we'll be subject to proper, pull-no-punches training. No more summer holidays in the Glen, tossing it off with set piece token exercises. There will actually be some serious soldiering ahead of us, and I'm delighted!
BUT...
It is to the organisations lasting shame, that the 2005 reorg was not used as an opportunity to cull the teadrinking club deadweights. Instead, in many cases, it gave them positions of greater authority, which resulted in a culture of pointlessness spreading throughout the organisation.
Officers whose sole motivation was to drink coffee with PDF officers in the Larger officers mess, with no interest in silly things like training plans, parades & inspections or even TOETs.
Other officers who loved the sound of their own voices so much they instructed without reference to manuals, again resorting to the "thats not the way we do it round here" mantra, or tales of how they done it in 1980 with piss-pot helmets, overalls and 303s. The same ones whose personal admin in the field lecture consisted of useful tips they had picked up while hillwalking in the reeks, such as attaching your kfs, compass, and penknife to a single paracord, and wrapping said paracord around all three, keeping it neatly in your top jacket pocket. Tacaids were only for the cadet school.
SNCOs who felt their rank was a god-given right, rather than an earned rank, who still instructed "the way we always did it" rather than current doctrine and practice.
The same SNCOs who magically vanished to the mess any time anything resembling physical exercise or activity took place. The same ones who insisted the stand-to driver drove them to the pub when the mess closed, and ignored the Orderly Officer and BOS instructions to return to their billet and STFU at 3am, while the rest of the camp had been in their unks for the previous 3 hours, and would be up in another 3.
The Privates who had no interest in military training whatsoever, considering annual training as a place to go on the tear. The same one would normally develop an illness or injury on day 2 of training, and be on LD till the second last day when a miraculous recovery would be witnessed.
To succeed in this latest guise, from the outset, every member going forward should be interviewed for their appointment to ensure they are suitable. The Lottery that was witnessed in 2005 left a lot of very good NCOs and Officers SWA. Most of these eventually left the organisation, unable to stop the rot they were witnessing.
This cannot happen again.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Had a chat with a well placed person this morning.
He/she was 'suggesting' that in some cases the 7 days FTT maybe be of the 08.30 to 16.30 variety with no accommadation and no rations (buy a meal ticket like everone else). Eg for bks based unit/sub unit where the 7 days FTT does not require open tactical areas this may apply eg driving courses, sigs courses. Reduced 'envelope' language. For 'rural' units normal accommadation, rations, etc may apply.
Anyway, with this 3 year review planned the undercurrent seems obvious.I'm not a number, I'm a free man.
Who is number 1?
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Originally posted by The Prisoner View PostHad a chat with a well placed person this morning.
He/she was 'suggesting' that in some cases the 7 days FTT maybe be of the 08.30 to 16.30 variety with no accommadation and no rations (buy a meal ticket like everone else). Eg for bks based unit/sub unit where the 7 days FTT does not require open tactical areas this may apply eg driving courses, sigs courses. Reduced 'envelope' language. For 'rural' units normal accommadation, rations, etc may apply.
Anyway, with this 3 year review planned the undercurrent seems obvious.I knew a simple soldier boy.....
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
And no one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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Originally posted by The Prisoner View PostHad a chat with a well placed person this morning.
He/she was 'suggesting' that in some cases the 7 days FTT maybe be of the 08.30 to 16.30 variety with no accommadation and no rations (buy a meal ticket like everone else). Eg for bks based unit/sub unit where the 7 days FTT does not require open tactical areas this may apply eg driving courses, sigs courses. Reduced 'envelope' language. For 'rural' units normal accommadation, rations, etc may apply.
Anyway, with this 3 year review planned the undercurrent seems obvious.
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Originally posted by Docman View PostWhat show - What time?
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Found it
Right Hook, Wednesday, Part 1, About 18mins in.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Originally posted by Fridge Magnet View PostNo, however as I'm sure you well know, having PDF lads who are willing to do more than asked, call in favours etc. can be quite useful.
Lose that and watch the snags roll in.
Why does PDF have a problem with this? Apart from the fact the RDF may be doing their job for FREE..............
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Originally posted by bunny shooter View PostOk I'm with you now
Why does PDF have a problem with this? Apart from the fact the RDF may be doing their job for FREE..............
Most definitely a ballhop though, so there should be no breakdown in relations between RDF and PDF lads when it comes to giving each other a dig out, thankfully.
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Originally posted by Fridge Magnet View PostI think Kaiser was alluding to the reaction from PDF members to the ballhop that he says is doing the rounds in the DFTC, that the RDF(I'm assuming RDFRA) were actively trying to show the Government that there was no need for a PDF, if they focused on the RDF.
Most definitely a ballhop though, so there should be no breakdown in relations between RDF and PDF lads when it comes to giving each other a dig out, thankfully.Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.
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