Funny story. The only complaint of that type was from a RegF MWO who was pissed because the stay-at-home RSM told the MWO to get himself and his returning boys to get back into Woodland and stop wearing the Arid tan around base. They thought they'd earned a few days to show off. The RSM thought otherwise.
Every Roto is Roto Zero.
My recollection is that at some point "remain with the unit for a month after return to Canada" was implemented.
Sort of reminds me of the RESO programme. Great training, but the candidates only commanded their peers, not soldiers.
I hadn't heard that and Mark is writing the chapters for the last few years. I'll see if he's come across that.
If he doesn't, dig deep. I know people first-hand. At most the policy might have been unofficial.
That can happen. Another complication is that many of the returning RegF folks after a tour went on leave in short order anyway so it's pretty much six of one and half a dozen of the other.
I've just hear back from Mark.
I have to capsulize and generalize, but in my years of experience I sum up the RegF attitude to reservists as "what have you done for me today?" Almost everyone loved the Class C reservists that they had with them on deployment. And in Ottawa everyone loves the Class Bs in their cubicles. OTOH, the general attitude towards Class As doing their training at the armories is that they are wastrels consuming resources that could be better used elsewhere. It's a challenge.
www.businessinsider.com
You know as a young kid I grew up and played in the ruins of a bombed out Berlin. A bit later and going into teenagerhood I was watching atomic and hydrogen bomb testing going on and learning how to hide in a culvert or under my school desk when the big one came. That segued into having Walter Cronkite show videos of dead and dying American boys my age in Vietnam while I was training to stop the Russian horde from crossing the Fulda Gap.
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looks like we are taking a page from the Swedish and Fin's with home guard civil defense model for this new third reserve
The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada
Faced with rising threats from competing states and climate change, the top military minds in the Canadian Armed Forces are drafting a plan to bolster the nation’s defences by creating a civil force made up of 300,000 volunteers.
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Nothing like choosing an organizational model that's failing miserably in the rest of society upon which to rest your national defense plans. It's almost as if someone in Ottawa didn't take a few seconds to google this information
A ‘shame’: What Canada loses from declining volunteerism
'This decline in volunteerism … is really a symptom of a broader malaise in civil society,' says one expert
You know as a young kid I grew up and played in the ruins of a bombed out Berlin. A bit later and going into teenagerhood I was watching atomic and hydrogen bomb testing going on and learning how to hide in a culvert or under my school desk when the big one came. That segued into having Walter Cronkite show videos of dead and dying American boys my age in Vietnam while I was training to stop the Russian horde from crossing the Fulda Gap.
Then everything turned relatively peaceful. Communism slowly died out in Europe and morphed in China. Our army dwindled to a shadow of itself. Life got better a bit at a time and wars were someone else's problem. And there were some but they were remote. Things took a turn when terrorism started blowing up buildings here and there but even with us in Afghanistan the whole thing still seemed distant.
And then a handful of geriatric assholes in high places with access to nukes started doing stupid stuff. For the first time in my life I'm worried about what kind world I'll be leaving my grandkids to grow up in.
Easy win.
