Army Reserve Restructuring

[MilEME09]

...and around it goes! Done this dance 3 or 4 times, No significant changes at the unit level, just bigger HQs

Perhaps but in the past reinventing the wheel came with no budget to make it happen. The money is atleast there now.

 

[Remius]

...and around it goes! Done this dance 3 or 4 times, No significant changes at the unit level, just bigger HQs

There things happening to increase numbers. But it will take time and effort.

 

[FJAG]

They can barely provide units with RSS as it is. I’m not getting an ops WO any time soon.

I know that there are personnel shortages across most trades. Similarly there are manning priorities in play. My understanding was that RSS was a high priority manning slot. As long as that remains true then I'm okay with the fact that there will be the occasional empty slot. I'm even okay with the fact that RSS slots may be filled by personnel who have medical or physical limitations that keep them out of field units as it is - same for slots at training institutions.

I'm not as happy with the fact that many slots are being filled by Class Bs. The lack of proper training and experience makes them, on average, less useful as trainers when it comes to both senior NCM and officer slots like the OpsO or OpsWO.

My solution for Class Bs is to divide the RegF into two classes. A Class identical to what we have now and another class which would be identical in all respects but would be enrolling for service in a limited geographical area for their career - such as metro Toronto, Calgary, Montreal etc. This would provide the member a full career opportunity with family stability and provide the CAF with full-timers still able to be operationally deployed as required by it. This career class would be coupled to hybrid units in larger urban centres where the mass of our recruits come from.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I know that there are personnel shortages across most trades. Similarly there are manning priorities in play. My understanding was that RSS was a high priority manning slot. As long as that remains true then I'm okay with the fact that there will be the occasional empty slot. I'm even okay with the fact that RSS slots may be filled by personnel who have medical or physical limitations that keep them out of field units as it is - same for slots at training institutions.

I'm not as happy with the fact that many slots are being filled by Class Bs. The lack of proper training and experience makes them, on average, less useful as trainers when it comes to both senior NCM and officer slots like the OpsO or OpsWO.

My solution for Class Bs is to divide the RegF into two classes. A Class identical to what we have now and another class which would be identical in all respects but would be enrolling for service in a limited geographical area for their career - such as metro Toronto, Calgary, Montreal etc. This would provide the member a full career opportunity with family stability and provide the CAF with full-timers still able to be operationally deployed as required by it. This career class would be coupled to hybrid units in larger urban centres where the mass of our recruits come from.

What we should be doing, of course, is aligning Reserve Bdes with the Reg F CMBGs et al.

All Reserve training should be focused on providing the individual and collective skills upgrading to be able to augment CMBGs with either individuals or small units, or both.

Trying to build a stand alone 2nd Div into the 'second best Reg Force in Canada' is just nuts...