Army Reserve Restructuring

[ArmyRick]

How many people on a course and how many courses could realistically be ran per year given existing instructor availability and facility requirements? What numbers of qualified people could be achieved in 1 year? Curious to know what is the realm of the possible on this...

Retired NCOs/Off could perhaps be contracted out to run this basic curriculum... some enterprising retired individual is getting a business license as we speak...

What is the max trainee vs min instr load? Could it look like this?

Course load: 30 (15 on firing line at a time, remainder observing/helping)

Rifle range staff: 4
Days 1-6

Other mil trg staff: 2
Days 7-9, 12
(Scrub pistol altogether, or offer 2 hr famil and hope they don't need to touch one)

Second serial of 30 starts when first serial moves to other mil training. So 6 people can train 120 people in a month.

120 people trained a month x 10 months = 1200/yr per site
x 4 training sites (not sure what's reasonable/achievable)

4800/year
Scales up with more sites/serials.

Very rudimentary, I know, and ignores all the admin/support behind the scenes...

Staffing:Students?

Course Officer + SGT or WO
ADmin NCO + 2 x storesmen (storespeople?)
1 CPL (leadership trained) to SGT per 16 students (worse case scenario), ideal 1 CPL-SGT to 10 students

C8/C7 (hell keep the old C7A2 around for these guys to use) range practices (25m/100m Grouping/ZERO practice prone, 100m Prone Grouping, 200m prone grouping, 100m Kneeling and standing, 100m/200m/300m snap shoots and timed shoots. No PWT3

Pistol, minimum level of shooting required (familiarity).

First time I threw hand grenades in the reserves (be fore I joined the regs), I got an hour on a dummy grenade, then threw 2 live grenades. Don't "Over complicate" simple training

 

[MilEME09]

Wait, Lethbridge has armour, artillery and service battalion?

If you think thats surprising, I should show you a list of 9th Technical regiment RCEME, from the 50s in southern AB

 

[RangerRay]

An independent battery and a troop of Sally Horse.

If you think thats surprising, I should show you a list of 9th Technical regiment RCEME, from the 50s in southern AB

Kamloops is bigger roughly the same size and I thought we did good having an under strength infantry platoon and an admin section.

 

[markppcli]

Kamloops is bigger roughly the same size and I thought we did good having an under strength infantry platoon and an admin section.

My experience e there was tbat we put the nominal in nominal role

 

[MilEME09]

Kamloops is bigger roughly the same size and I thought we did good having an under strength infantry platoon and an admin section.

I mean in the 50s we had a recovery troop in Blairmore of all places. We can sustain a lot more, and if we really give admin coys to all the units? Thats going to be a lot of trades opening up in every smaller city.

 

[WestIsle]

With the authorized since of the PRes increasing by 400%, I wonder if we are going to see any units come off the Supplementary Order of Battle? The 4th Princess Lousie Dragoon Guards in Ottawa would make some sense as the only armoured unit in 33 CBG is the Ontario Regiment in the GTA.

Ironically most of the supp order regiments are seemingly in the process of potentially being merged with active francophone unit like the Volts who all have no battle honors. Because.... of the implication...
The irony though is not lost on me