views on support corps

[ZULU]

God bless the support units. They're there to support us and they do a good job of it too. I only wish there could be more inter unit training such as medics coming to the infantry for tactical training and infantry lads going to the likes of transport for driving courses. It should not only be on the ground that they support us but in barracks as well.

There is inter unit training. I've been on a Imagineering Familiarisation Course, A driving course with transport. Singar course with Sigs. The Trouble is a lot of people with these units don't want to come train in the muck with us.

[hotdawg]

Don't forget the elite of the reserve, the Air Defence

ah is this craic still goin on? it was a recruitment video lads, get over it. If we believed everything we saw in recruitment ads, we're all invading boats and finding bags of salt hidden by johnny foreigner, and then retiring back to barracks to walk in slow motion throwing volleyballs casually over our shoulders while smiling and laughing.

Recruitment videos use exciting buzz words and visualisations to attract attention, its just basic advertising.

[Steamy Window]

ah is this craic still goin on? it was a recruitment video lads, get over it. If we believed everything we saw in recruitment ads, we're all invading boats and finding bags of salt hidden by johnny foreigner, and then retiring back to barracks to walk in slow motion throwing volleyballs casually over our shoulders while smiling and laughing.

You mean you guys don't?

[ZULU]

LOL.Got a Pm of Backsturd and he reminded me of when on the imagineering course, we were shown how to tie a "Cock Knot", ehhhemm, I mean Clove Hitch!

[techie]

nice one guys,glad i got a debate started ,so the feeling i am getting is that the infantry lads would like to see a lot more cross training(some would say contamination) of different corps and units which i would say is fair enough,i would add though that most csc units are filled with troops that have come from front line units and that a fair proportion of them are looking to (how can i put it )retire and that the others which have been trained solely to be technicians since they joined up would be reluctant( to say the least) to do stuff which that does not entail them doing as the see as their main job for the army. i ll leave this with you though as nearly all technicians who have been trained will testify as been told on many occasions while in training "soldier first ,tradesman second"

[Bosco]

From my experience theres good and bad the Engineer unit I'm parading with at the mo are very good and very active.
Ive done a lot of stuff that I never even heard of in infy, and yes they did say transfer over and we will make you and officer.

[DeV]

It don't see the point in corps units cross-training with infantry units at the minute - more infantry units can't organise platoon tactics (correctly) at the minute.

IMO - If XX Res Inf Bn are running a tactical exercise for 2 stars for example they should ask the corps units do they have any 2 stars who needed to complete a tactical exercise to get upgraded (just as an infantry man).

As the years go by and with PDF/RDF PSO exercises - why not deploy RDF corps elements - eg a MP detachment doing route marking, a Cav troop doing long range recce, etc

[Goldie fish]

Cav were involved in the past in PSO exercises. However the Infantry in charge did not know what to do with them.

[hptmurphy]

lol we are capable of multi tasking but this was not appreaciated at the time.We had so much to offer but the command level never saw beyond basics

[PTE bog]

From my experience theres good and bad the Engineer unit I'm parading with at the mo are very good and very active.
Ive done a lot of stuff that I never even heard of in infy, and yes they did say transfer over and we will make you and officer.

What does the reserve engineer corps do?

[Bosco]

Same as regulars do.
Bridging, heavy demo etc

[PTE bog]

Building stuff and blowing it up? Thats what I was born to do. Do they cover any other disciplines of engineering?