Army Reserve Restructuring

[Rifleman62]

So how does this MRes differ from all other mobilizable reserves in order to earn the name "Mobilization Reserve?"

Should be called Special Service. SS for short.

 

[Remius]

Should be called Special Service. SS for short.

Reserve Special Service or RSS. Just to add confusion.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Reserve Special Service or RSS. Just to add confusion.

So they won't be seen in the field, especially on weekends, because 'so much office work'?

 

[FJAG]

So they won't be seen in the field, especially on weekends, because 'so much office work'?

Sigh. My predecessor was one of those . . . and he didn't even use the "office work" as an excuse - just that he only worked Mon to Fri. The unit hated his guts. Luckily so did the SSO Dist at PER time. His career was short lived.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Sigh. My predecessor was one of those . . . and he didn't even use the "office work" as an excuse - just that he only worked Mon to Fri. The unit hated his guts. Luckily so did the SSO Dist at PER time. His career was short lived.

We had a couple of good ones... a couple of decades apart

 

[MilEME09]

So they won't be seen in the field, especially on weekends, because 'so much office work'?

sounds like the RSS techs we have had as of late, sadly

 

[FJAG]

We had a couple of good ones... a couple of decades apart

I always like to think that I was one of those. I did manage to more than quadruple the regiment's live fire field time. We did that by leveraging MilArea's unexpended annual ammo allocation each year by holding a winter indoctrination live fire weekend at the end of March (which in itself needed to leverage nearly 100% of the Area's available winter clothing and tents etc) and by supporting GATES live fire armoured battlegroup exercises. We always managed to field a full battery. One can't help having happy gunners when you can get six guns to fire 400 rounds on each of two days.

 

[Eaglelord17]

sounds like the RSS techs we have had as of late, sadly

Can't fully blame them. Many units try to use them for anything and everything, resulting in them getting burned out too. How many RSS techs want to go out on a weekend exercise, which they will have to fight to get the time back on, where they make up 1/3 of the people showing up?

From what I saw, the reason most put their backs up quickly on doing anything outside of direct tech work was they would use and abuse them. Much like the full time Class B troops. The difference being if the full time Class B troops wanted to keep their contracts they did it without complaining.

 

[MilEME09]

Can't fully blame them. Many units try to use them for anything and everything, resulting in them getting burned out too. How many RSS techs want to go out on a weekend exercise, which they will have to fight to get the time back on, where they make up 1/3 of the people showing up?

maybe for some units, but we have been trying to get them out to mentor and get the reg force perspective on how to do our jobs in the field, and they are compensated with days in lieu at my unit. Frankly if your complaining about burning out from one weekend a month with the reserves when the rest of us are doing it, working a completely different job monday to friday, perhaps you need to rethink your employment in the CAF?

 

[FJAG]

How many RSS techs want to go out on a weekend exercise, which they will have to fight to get the time back on, where they make up 1/3 of the people showing up?

In my experience being out with them had attendance pick up because the exercises ran better.

Compensatory time off is just proper leadership. Our regiment ran two weekends per month and our RSS established workweek had every Monday off with Tuesdays as well if it was a long weekend. Effectively every month had two one day weekends and two three day weekends. None of my folks had kids which made that pretty easy.

 

[Seyek]

maybe for some units, but we have been trying to get them out to mentor and get the reg force perspective on how to do our jobs in the field, and they are compensated with days in lieu at my unit. Frankly if your complaining about burning out from one weekend a month with the reserves when the rest of us are doing it, working a completely different job monday to friday, perhaps you need to rethink your employment in the CAF?

In fairness - reservists working a full time job and then going out on weekend exercises + parade nights get paid extra for that time. A reg force member working full time and doing so gets nothing extra. I feel like building RSS schedules around working with their respective units is the simple solution to this and the only I've one seen, but this is coming from a combat arms perspective not a tech one.

 

[Kirkhill]

In fairness - reservists working a full time job and then going out on weekend exercises + parade nights get paid extra for that time. A reg force member working full time and doing so gets nothing extra. I feel like building RSS schedules around working with their respective units is the simple solution to this and the only I've one seen, but this is coming from a combat arms perspective not a tech one.

A Tuesday to Saturday schedule?

 

[PrairieFella]

A Tuesday to Saturday schedule?

A Tuesday to Friday schedule woth the expectation to work a weekend or two a month.

 

[MilEME09]

A Tuesday to Friday schedule woth the expectation to work a weekend or two a month.

which is still a lighter schedule then being posted to a field formation

 

[PrairieFella]

which is still a lighter schedule then being posted to a field formation

Meh. No skin off my ass if guys get a bit of a break.