Not meant to be antagonistic so please do not takenit as such:
It is an easy way out for units. Keep the reserve occupied with a load of range days which require a limited enough PDF contribution and then for the rest of the year you dont need to worry about them looking to use up resources doing things that just create work.
The reserve is on its knees. It is easy to blame the PDF for the recruiting challenges etc but the reality is that it was killed by the recruiment freeze.
As a concept we do not do volunteerism very well long term in this country. People take up hobbies and activities and drop them a few weeks or months later. People will not stay in the reserve for 30 years and be there every week either. It is unrealistic to expect that they would.
I am not sure how to speed up recuitment. They still need to go through the hoops of vetting (even though the latest version is a joke), medical, fitness etc. Fitness failures and no-shows is well over 50%.
You cannot have a scenario where people are allowed to train without being vetted.
Since the majority of the cadres were do away with and the well flagged shortages in the PDF the RDF are a double edged sword. They need a lot of resources to get them to the level that they are useful / dependable / capable but the units do not have the resources to do that.
It is an easy way out for units. Keep the reserve occupied with a load of range days which require a limited enough PDF contribution and then for the rest of the year you dont need to worry about them looking to use up resources doing things that just create work.
The reserve is on its knees. It is easy to blame the PDF for the recruiting challenges etc but the reality is that it was killed by the recruiment freeze.
As a concept we do not do volunteerism very well long term in this country. People take up hobbies and activities and drop them a few weeks or months later. People will not stay in the reserve for 30 years and be there every week either. It is unrealistic to expect that they would.
I am not sure how to speed up recuitment. They still need to go through the hoops of vetting (even though the latest version is a joke), medical, fitness etc. Fitness failures and no-shows is well over 50%.
You cannot have a scenario where people are allowed to train without being vetted.
Since the majority of the cadres were do away with and the well flagged shortages in the PDF the RDF are a double edged sword. They need a lot of resources to get them to the level that they are useful / dependable / capable but the units do not have the resources to do that.
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