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The big limitation with the NSR is that they only have a Seamanship Branch. No Mechs/Commops/ERAs etc. If they had certain civilian skills...

The sister ship HMAS Stalwart is expected to enter service in late 2021. With the ice capable Aotearoa the Anzac naval forces will have three very...

How about if that reservist had served 10 years in the AC and was qualified to service it? Or whats wrong with NSR personnel knowing the ins and...

There is no issues with Naval vessel paint. The reserve is not the army corps of skivvies. As former Air Corps, would you be happy letting a...

Generate an Air Corps reserve. There are plenty of tasks that could be achieved with an aviation-oriented Reserve unit. Man one of the inactive NS...

Excellent post In answer to some of your points: 1. Rebalance from "teeth to tail" Agree with this one. The BA Reserve strength is something...

We probably will when it gets to PPARS level

Ah...looks around.....no?

Same as MIF but standardised across the public sector. The complexities of integrating the huge diversity of systems into one system are causing a...

In laymans terms. 1/ What is it? 2/ How does it work? 3/ What's the delay?

That project is unlikely to move for some time lol

Correct. The DFRs are yes but the Admin Instructions which contain the orders of dress and scale of issue are signed by DCOS

A9 and L3 are the department's responsibility. Regulations are not written by the military. Hence APOD's comments re DCOS LOI

2nd meeting today And their Twitter feed https://twitter.com/irlcodf/status/1350132810179342342?s=21

Without going off too much on a tangent. DF is moving to an Electronic 245B(e245B) Held up by Issues with delays to the setup across the public...

If the rest of the public sector can manage it, why not the DF?

Of course. Just wanted to fill it out.

Just a random example

It may not make sense to to move an entire capability to the reserve. Currency would need to be maintained within the PDF so as to be able to keep...

Wasn’t necessarily suggesting that they do But the question for the ToR Is what do you want the DF to do, then how and then the resources required...

Imagine a system with the functional to fill in forms online, electronic signature, and submit for approval, 1 up receives email that they have a...

... and has been possible for years In work, all the door swipe accesses are managed by online tech Employee goes onto the online portal and...

RAN just took delivery of their newest vessel, to be named HMAS Supply. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New <a...

look at the likes of Clonmel and other large town always had a PDF/RDF presence great recruitment into the PDF and now their proud military service...

I agree and disagree with you on these points. I definitely think their needs to be manned offices at least for some period of the week. Just...

I don't see anything in the terms of reference that conflicts with what I stated. Sure we will see what gets delivered in the end. Just wanted to...

Any proposals on the RDF need to be considered in relation to the overall ToR: Terms of Reference of the Commission on the Defence Forces