Luchi - and everyone else who claims to be able to do a full days training after a night in the mess having a few pints-
I wonder if you could do a full days training, with full CEMO and CEFO on you after a night in the mess?
I sincerely doubt it. And I would call you a liar if you even have the audacity to claim that you are and that you know plenty of people capable of doing it.
And that attitude, from you and the other "old sweats" as you call them, is the wrong kind of an example to be setting to people coming into the RDF.
Is irresponsible, and it is an hypocrisy of what it means to wear the uniform of an irish soldier in the DF in the 21st century. That is the type of attitude to soldiering that results in us black beret wearing kind looking down upon reservists.
Granted the people that have this attitude are on their way out, and don't have much to offer the RDF...and I mean that too. Regardless of how many years experience they have...a night in the mess will not leave any soldier, PDF or RDF, in any fit state to be effective with regards training or being on duty.
Its unprofessional and anyone with that attitude has the wrong attitude to what it means to wear the uniform.
I have time for reservists that have the right attitude to training, but I wouldn't waste my time with people that see any course as a handy week and night on night basis of getting hammered in the mess.
This is one of the main reasons that we PDF are reluctant and unwilling to help out the RDF...so Luchi, its people like you that are hiolding back and hurting the organisation...because you guys need us PDF more than we need you. And I would say that the RDF doesn't need people like you either. And that if you think otherwise, then you are believing your own press.
I am not bag bashing there with the last point, but I am pointing out that you would have a better chance of finding an honest man in parliament, than someone in the PDF who would be willing to give up his or her time to teach/train RDF personnel who view it as a drinking club.
I wonder if you could do a full days training, with full CEMO and CEFO on you after a night in the mess?
I sincerely doubt it. And I would call you a liar if you even have the audacity to claim that you are and that you know plenty of people capable of doing it.
And that attitude, from you and the other "old sweats" as you call them, is the wrong kind of an example to be setting to people coming into the RDF.
Is irresponsible, and it is an hypocrisy of what it means to wear the uniform of an irish soldier in the DF in the 21st century. That is the type of attitude to soldiering that results in us black beret wearing kind looking down upon reservists.
Granted the people that have this attitude are on their way out, and don't have much to offer the RDF...and I mean that too. Regardless of how many years experience they have...a night in the mess will not leave any soldier, PDF or RDF, in any fit state to be effective with regards training or being on duty.
Its unprofessional and anyone with that attitude has the wrong attitude to what it means to wear the uniform.
I have time for reservists that have the right attitude to training, but I wouldn't waste my time with people that see any course as a handy week and night on night basis of getting hammered in the mess.
This is one of the main reasons that we PDF are reluctant and unwilling to help out the RDF...so Luchi, its people like you that are hiolding back and hurting the organisation...because you guys need us PDF more than we need you. And I would say that the RDF doesn't need people like you either. And that if you think otherwise, then you are believing your own press.
I am not bag bashing there with the last point, but I am pointing out that you would have a better chance of finding an honest man in parliament, than someone in the PDF who would be willing to give up his or her time to teach/train RDF personnel who view it as a drinking club.
Comment