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  • Originally posted by trellheim View Post
    ( from the other thread )

    1. and a review of the number of active members of the RDF is currently being compiled in this regard.
    What have ye been doing .. we could have told you that 12 months ago ?

    As part of this process, the criteria for participation in the RDF are also being reviewed and updated

    .... You've said no change already see above

    The revised structure has improved access to

    equipment... No it hasn't and its proposed to be done in a nonstrategic manner , no lockers and no individual responsibility for kit

    , expertise ... Yes-ish but it was not a problem before for our crew, others may have benefited but the range on offer this year has opened up that is true to be real Single Force but note expertise not the same as training
    and appropriate training for Reserve members. Yes. See previous pount

    It has also allowed for a significant reduction in the number of PDF personnel required to administer and train the Reserve on a full time basis .... which was the real re-org goal in any event to throw cadre back into the pot to make up the numbers.
    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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    • Godwin's Law....

      It's like the RDF has been on a slow death march the last few years, escorted by the MA, and DOD at gunpoint; letting attrition and natural selection work its course. And now, with the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gates on the horizon, a glimmer of hope if we can only get beyond the threshold; they're throwing everything at us, making us sprint to the finish in the hope we'll die of exhaustion within the final distance so that they're spared the need to finish the unsavoury job themselves on arrival.

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      • Don't get me wrong here. There is so much work been thrown at us by the PDF it is unreal and there are several incredible opportunities that will come out in the publicity soon if they come off. I wish I was a 3* again sometimes and had these kind of opportunities, and that I had a job that I could take 3 weeks off to do some PDF courses.

        Several people I know who have specialities the DF want have been targeted from on-high and assigned to places where "their powers can be used for good". Others have refused said offer. In some cases those assigned to specialist areas have been left to rot too so faults on both sides. Some of them of both types even post here so they can make their own comments.

        On that side it's everything 2008 Integration should have been.

        But on the simple stuff, regs and logs and recruiting, its like the fking chimpanzees are running the party and there must be a motive somewhere.
        "Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "

        "No, they're trying to fly the tank"

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        • Originally posted by trellheim View Post
          Don't get me wrong here. There is so much work been thrown at us by the PDF it is unreal and there are several incredible opportunities that will come out in the publicity soon if they come off. I wish I was a 3* again sometimes and had these kind of opportunities, and that I had a job that I could take 3 weeks off to do some PDF courses.

          Several people I know who have specialities the DF want have been targeted from on-high and assigned to places where "their powers can be used for good". Others have refused said offer. In some cases those assigned to specialist areas have been left to rot too so faults on both sides. Some of them of both types even post here so they can make their own comments.

          On that side it's everything 2008 Integration should have been.

          But on the simple stuff, regs and logs and recruiting, its like the fking chimpanzees are running the party and there must be a motive somewhere.
          I see the same. We are getting some savage things in our unit. As much work with the PDF as possible - weapons courses, annual camps, grenades, etc etc
          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 trellheim View Post
            But on the simple stuff, regs and logs and recruiting, its like the fking chimpanzees are running the party and there must be a motive somewhere.
            Only the important stuff then!

            If the regulations defining the organisation are incorrect and out of date what hope do we have!

            Originally posted by Buck View Post
            I see the same. We are getting some savage things in our unit. As much work with the PDF as possible - weapons courses, annual camps, grenades, etc etc
            I fired the grenade over 10 years ago and planned to get my troops to fire it about 5 years ago (didn't work out unfortunately but they did at least TOET).

            What weapons out of interest?

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            • Originally posted by DeV View Post
              I fired the grenade over 10 years ago and planned to get my troops to fire it about 5 years ago (didn't work out unfortunately but they did at least TOET).

              What weapons out of interest?
              Fair play but we've never seen the grenade, never mind had the notions of firing one so it's at least steps in the right direction.

              Well, for example, if the PDF are doing a weapons course, we'll be jumping in for as much as the FTT allocation allows. LFTT is on the cards too for the near future. Just more and more integration.

              I understand that some have had bad experiences of the re-org but it's been mostly positive on our end. The one thing that's annoying is that nobody (PDF or RDF) can get a doctor for a medical so the over 40's can't do fitness tests.
              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 Buck View Post
                Well, for example, if the PDF are doing a weapons course, we'll be jumping in for as much as the FTT allocation allows. LFTT is on the cards too for the near future. Just more and more integration.

                I understand that some have had bad experiences of the re-org but it's been mostly positive on our end. The one thing that's annoying is that nobody (PDF or RDF) can get a doctor for a medical so the over 40's can't do fitness tests.

                LFTT would be excellent!! (So long as the troops are compotent in the basic drills).

                So coy level weapons then I assume?

                Well the DF needs to find MOs (or other arrangements) because EVERY member of the RDF has to do an annual medical in 2014 as part of there KPIs.

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                • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                  LFTT would be excellent!! (So long as the troops are compotent in the basic drills).

                  So coy level weapons then I assume?

                  Well the DF needs to find MOs (or other arrangements) because EVERY member of the RDF has to do an annual medical in 2014 as part of there KPIs.
                  From what I know the first few days on the ex are bringing troops up to scratch and the last few is the LF part of the LFTT. Baby steps!

                  Yeah. SRAAW's, 84's, .5's etc.
                  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.

                  Comment


                  • Originally posted by Buck View Post
                    From what I know the first few days on the ex are bringing troops up to scratch and the last few is the LF part of the LFTT. Baby steps!

                    Yeah. SRAAW's, 84's, .5's etc.
                    Assuming your infantry:

                    SRAAW - section level - everyone should be able to use it
                    84 - coy level - those in the A/T section at coy level trained on it
                    .5 - bn level - no RDF infantry should be training on it

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                    • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                      Assuming your infantry:

                      SRAAW - section level - everyone should be able to use it
                      84 - coy level - those in the A/T section at coy level trained on it
                      .5 - bn level - no RDF infantry should be training on it
                      What about Mechanised Infantry?


                      Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                      • Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                        What about Mechanised Infantry?
                        SRAAW is the same
                        84 not sure, are they in every vehicle ?
                        .5 - they should be getting 154s first (at least to TCV), the HMG and the MOWAG Crewmans.

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                        • Not necessarily. In cav you'd get a gunnery course long before you'd see a 154 for the armour.


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                            Not necessarily. In cav you'd get a gunnery course long before you'd see a 154 for the armour.
                            Except the MOWAG Crewmans Cse is the driver & gunner course combined.

                            And 1 Mech Coy is infantry not cavalry

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                            • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                              Except the MOWAG Crewmans Cse is the driver & gunner course combined.

                              And 1 Mech Coy is infantry not cavalry
                              1 mech is confused they dont know what they want to be
                              Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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                              • Yet they have the infantry MOWAGs (being formerly B Coy 3 Inf) and 1ACS have the Cav MOWAGs.

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