Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

[Occam]

The techs I know are shaking their heads... this is yet another indication that the people in charge of this are out to lunch.

"Let's drop their spec pay, and see if they notice.  If they do, we'll blame it on a technical glitch".

:Tin-Foil-Hat:

 

[IBM]

The techs I know are shaking their heads... this is yet another indication that the people in charge of this are out to lunch.

Wait, there were actually PEOPLE in charge of this? And all this time I thought they delegated the work to some hamster on a wheel somewhere in a basement at NDHQ. Although, with the amount of fubar so far, they might as well have.

 

[REDinstaller]

The techs I know are shaking their heads... this is yet another indication that the people in charge of this are out to lunch.

Your first clue should have been all the side stepping and avoidance of questions at every briefing by the MES team. Those of us that have some common dog all knew the only requirement was to stand up trade #4 and designate it to be the Information Systems Administrators. There done, no muss, no fuss, no releases and confusion by the boat load. MES Tm effectiveness LEFT JUSTIFIED.

 

[Sig_Des]

MES Tm effectiveness LEFT JUSTIFIED.

But leading change is all the way to the Right!!

 

[REDinstaller]

As they take the final step off the cliff edge.

 

[Swingline1984]

4 MORE YEARS!!!...4 MORE YEARS!!!...(until retirement)

 

[REDinstaller]

2017 can't come soon enough. OH to be ACISS free.....can you get pills to cure it?

 

[ayo23]

So is SQ for ACISS definitely 10 weeks now? I remember back when LCIS Tech was listed SQ was only 21 days. 

 

[lcis00110]

So, my pay was supposed to be protected.... well guess what, IT WASN'T!!!  I'm sick of this dungheep!!!  The big giant heads that be who made up this so called ACISS crap outta have their heads examined.  Oh yeah, they only did it to score points so they can make their way out of a staff position and have their own frickin' office in NDHQ!!!  Bonetards!!!  (sorry, just venting)

 

[PiperDown]

Units are protecting members pay.

IE.  JSR in kingston is depositing the missing amount as a misc deposit directly into to members bank account until such a time as the clerical error is sorted out.

So, before deciding Christmas is cancelled this year. See your CoC, or clerk ( as applicable ) .

 

[LordSnow]

they should have just created a new trade IST and let sig ops and techs re-muster into it, but we need more operators so they made this.
Oh well we can cry and bitch about it all we want but it's not going to change. Not any time soon anyways, not till we get all the dinosaurs
that were around for Cyprus out and retired. We need to just accept it and make the best of it.
The Sig ops and future ACISS that do tac rad with Cbt arms units will call themselves rad ops and be proud of it, the Linemen will save the "V",
and as far as the techs goes; the only things they ever cared for is their spec pay and pretending they are smarter then then everybody else.

 

[Swingline1984]

they should have just created a new trade IST etc, etc...

Thank-you Pte Cherry for weighing in with your extensive experience within the Branch and summarizing so eloquently some of the main points already articulated within this thread.  I've been around since Cyprus does that make me a dinosaur?  In fact, last I checked the map Cyprus was still on it, and *GASP* we still had personnel there.  Plenty of Senior Tradesmen do not support this initiative (ME, ME...LOOK AT ME!!) so rein it in a little bit.  As for this chestnut:

The Sig ops and future ACISS that do tac rad with Cbt arms units will call themselves rad ops and be proud of it, the Linemen will save the "V",  and as far as the techs goes; the only things they ever cared for is their spec pay and pretending they are smarter then then everybody else.

1.  The new folks being fed into the sausage grinder won't even know what those animals are let alone refer to themselves as one.

2.  I will make you proud and do my part to "save the V" whatever that means.  Velox?  Versutus?  Vigilans?  Five?  Is the letter V endangered?

3.  I've met plenty of Techs who care far too much and ARE smarter than everybody else so I guess I can kind of relate.

 

[REDinstaller]

Pte Cherry,

You must be right off your rocker to think that the LCIS Techs are only concerned about our pay. If the Sig Ops would sit down and learn more about TCCCS so they would become proficient, we Techs wouldn't give them such a hard time of it. So this should be an opportunity for you to go on listening watch, and learn what the Army Signals do. Don't bother riding the Sig Op high horse, because you don't have the first clue on how to do it.

 

[Jammer]

:facepalm:

 

[PuckChaser]

Don't bother riding the Sig Op high horse, because you don't have the first clue on how to do it.

As opposed to the LCIS Tech high horse? Let's not play the us vs them game because I've seen some techs that don't have a clue how to troubleshoot TCCCS, just as you've seen SigOps without a lot of TCCCS knowledge.

 

[Swingline1984]

All right children...time to tweak the programming.  Now altogether repeat after me:

"We are ACISS. Existence, as you know it, is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile."

 

[PMedMoe]

2.  I will make you proud and do my part to "save the V" whatever that means.  Velox?  Versutus?  Vigilans?  Five?  Is the letter V endangered?

Velociraptor.    ;D

 

[LordSnow]

Ok, I will admit dinosaurs was harsh. I am just upset with the lack of information and planning going on with the branch as well as OP Abortion
As far as Cyprus goes yes we still have all of, oh yeah, 1 officer there. That doesn't include Medics and MPs that run decompression of course.

 

[Lare]

So is SQ for ACISS definitely 10 weeks now? I remember back when LCIS Tech was listed SQ was only 21 days.

Myself and a few other Sig.... ACISS (both people recruited as SigOps and LCIS) just went through SQ... BMQ (L), and it was indeed 21 training days (1 month). Not sure where this 10 weeks business is coming from, we we're told it used to be 5 weeks, but they had recently cut it back to 4 weeks (don't let the 21 training days thing fool you, we had 1 full day off). In fact, ours was the first to run the 4 week course as we had people from the same PAT plt's leave a week or two earlier than us running the 5 week course. 

 

[Swingline1984]

Velociraptor.    ;D