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A significant portion of the CF is walking around without a valid security clearance at any given moment.  We would still award RS. It would just be awarded post enrollment.  We pretty much need a PRes member enrolled a month before BMQ to conduct in clearance, issue kit and course load anyway...

I think that the admin burden associated with the current recruiting bureaucracy is far greater than the admin burden created by a few irregular enrollments. Keep in mind that PRes members are FORCE tested prior to enrollment. It may not be the best test, but it is the standard.  As noted...

I see where you are coming from, but I think we must be careful of being too dismissive of the opinions, values and concerns of the public.  I think you will find that in general there is a lack of public understanding, or as you have phrased, respect for virtually every profession.  Many...

Well, you've got me on my arts major math.  :( To provide some context, our fastest processing time (for enrolled applicants) was 4 months and the longest 11, but most applicants were clustered pretty tightly around the 6 month mark.

The British Army Reserve takes it a step further.  Virtually all of their units are split across multiple armories, often in the Coy or Pl sized elements, and they have a number of "national" units.  4 Para for example, is split across 9 armories in England and Scotland.  The C2 implications are...

That is still 3 times what the CDS has directed (60-90 days).  If the average processing time is 6 months (which is what it was for my unit's applicant's over the last FY), half of the successful applicants are still being processed in a longer time period.  Additionally, that doesn't count the...

Absolutely. Unfortunately everything I have seen with regards to the recruiting SLA to move to 60-90 day processing is that it is not going well...

Except that the 81mm conversion has already started, and will only accelerate as the C3 fleet dies out.  Are you saying that we can't generate a dozen mortar platoons out of the strength of 20+ PRes Arty regiments and independent batteries?  The Australian Army Reserve has already converted all...

Yep, the Aussies have wholesale converted their Army Reserve Armored Recce units to Bushmaster APV crew units.  In many ways, the Bushmaster would have been a good TAPV alternative.  Decent mobility and protection with the ability to carry a full infantry section...

We can always make it work, it just isn't very efficient. My point is that we don't really need 2 structures at all, and that if we are going to ditch a structure, it should be the less functional one, which in my opinion is the completely unsustainable 110 unit/10 CBG model we currently have. ...

Absolutely.  I see your point.  The counterpoint to consider is authority and responsibility often also brings with it a significant time commitment. In the current construct, even with full-time staff support, a CO needs to parade around 100 days a year to be effective (and I realize that is...

I can only speak from perspective of a unit level Ops O and Coy OC (so I don't know all of the backroom stuff), but in 41 CBG it was all CFTPO tasks to units, and all of the pers would remain on the unit's manning reports. For a while we only populated the positions based on our tasks down to...

The hardest part of living in Calgary is getting sick of steak...just kidding that doesn't happen  ;D It seems like every location has implemented the TBG differently. Some establish separate structures and troops, others use it as their primary vehicle for delivering CT.  For us, the tasks...

Sorry, who's eating our lunch?  Its almost lunchtime in AB and I'm getting peckish  8)

We do love our interlocking, interwoven, and interjumbled organizational structures....so there's that.  [:D But seriously, the reason we have TBGs is that the government directed that we establish them, though they never took the form of the 100 RegF and 300 PRes pers originally specified. ...

While I would love to have some element of compulsory service (for both training and operations), I think that the Army Reserve has a reasonably good track record using the volunteer model, generating the capabilities we have been asked to generate for domestic and international operations.  We...

I don't think anyone is advocating that any PRes organization just "show up".  There must always be an RFA from provincial authorities, and an order to assign the relevant forces to the RJTF based on the mandate of the operation.  The TBG (just like the IRU) is just another tool in the toolbox. ...

Not at all.  I was just commenting on two local organizations, echoing Daftandbarmy's experience.  It was clearly 1 CMBG's show, and as Col Anderson noted in the AAR, it was a great example of the "get in fast, be awesome, and get out" model that we should be looking for in DOMOPS generally.  I...

We had similar experiences in the 2013 floods.  We had a few travelling pers (RegF and PRes) join in with us to help out, but the two RegF organizations in the city  stayed out of the operation altogether.  One organization stayed home because their building was in the evacuation zone, and the...

I would offer that the response times will vary widely depending on the circumstances.  I could imagine a local emergency so dire that only outside units could respond, but that risk could impact the RegF as much as PRes.  During the 2013 AB floods, we had no trouble mobilizing pers, including...