Army Reserve Restructuring

[daftandbarmy]

Weekends.
3hrs is never 3hrs on an evening.
I know when I was a reservist that at least 30min was wasted in signing in and then nominal roll parade.

And weapons draw... and return...

 

[Ostrozac]

100+ buildings need to be replaced, lets just ball park 50 million min for each for land and construction. Thats a spicy bill

Double that, at least. The Voltigeurs de Quebec Armoury project was $104 million, and the land didn’t need to be acquired.

 

[Kirkhill]

Weekends.
3hrs is never 3hrs on an evening.
I know when I was a reservist that at least 30min was wasted in signing in and then nominal roll parade.

Going back to the mists of time at Mewata most of those showing up arrived around 6 PM and left around 11 or 12.

Weapons were seldom drawn on week nights. Classes ran from 7 PM to 9 PM. BOR and stores stayed open longer.

 

[KevinB]

Going back to the mists of time at Mewata most of those showing up arrived around 6 PM and left around 11 or 12.

I think you may be remembering more nostalgia than reality.

Weapons were seldom drawn on week nights. Classes ran from 7 PM to 9 PM. BOR and stores stayed open longer.

That’s 2hrs

The ARNG do virtually nothing on weeknights.
They use training days on weekends, or blocks of active duty.

 

[Kirkhill]

I think you may be remembering more nostalgia than reality.

That’s 2hrs

The ARNG do virtually nothing on weeknights.
They use training days on weekends, or blocks of active duty.

There was a third hour of admin and preps for the weekend.

 

[Kilted]

Weekends.
3hrs is never 3hrs on an evening.
I know when I was a reservist that at least 30min was wasted in signing in and then nominal roll parade.

Are you suggesting doing two weekends a month as opposed to one weekend and parade nights like some remote regiments do it?

That is good in theory, but there are a number of issues with it. First of all, this isn't as bad as it used to be, but the assumption that the reserves still seems to have that everyone works a Monday to Friday 9-5 job, which is very much untrue. It also comes down to there being a finite number of weekends in the training year. Once you take away 8-10 weekend ex's, Remembrance Day and other random tasks that units have to send people to, you don't have that many weekends left. Plus throw in holidays.

It's already bad enough for the people working weekend courses that depending if they fall on different weekends from unit ex's and their civilian employment, they could end up working for a couple months straight without a day off. Add two nights a week in there and you wonder why we lose so many people in the MCpl to Sgt range.