Army Reserve Restructuring

[Kirkhill]

I am going to be a broken record, but we have firms making actual light AFV's selling thousands overseas, which we won't buy for our own military and would be easy to source parts for. Start buying a few hundred a year and start spreading them out to the units, replace them as they hit 10 years.

Senators and LAV IIs with and without RWS.

 

[CountDC]

I don't think we're talking about come kind of regulatory body accepting it as a professional certification. Rather were talking about something community colleges give out. I don't think itd be to hard to partner with XYZ College, and work out a deal where based on our training modules after 3 years an Fin or HRA gets a two year diploma granted to them. I may cost us a bit per member but would possibly be an enticing option for people who want to enter the CAF for job skills.

Can't agree with this. Fin and HRA in 3 years will not have the training or skills to be qualified for a diploma. 1 year training in military, 2 years working in the office doing military admin/fin. Do a PLAR and probably have about 4 courses needed at the college to complete.

I agree with whar you say, however I think we also suffer from a recruiting issue there. Anecdotal but I can't remember ever getting new clerks into the reserves. Shockingly joing the army to do paper work on the weekends isn't terribly appealing.

Reserves have always recruited to their base trades. Infantry recruit infantry, artillery recruit artillery. Brought this up at a unit in the 80's at a meeting and the answer was - why should we recruit clerks, that's the service bn job. Of course talking to the svc bn and they were not recruiting clerks either, they were busy with sup tech, veh tech, drivers, weapon techs.

Yes it was reversed after I handed over command as the person who implemented it as a Maj (after convincing the Bde Comd it was a great deal) became the CO of one of the Units that had to live with it. Surprise, she thought it was great when it wasn't her problem, but apparently it sucked when it was her problem.

Why is it I am not surprised.

Gawd forbid the paysheets disappear

There are organizations who have regularly managed (for decades) part-time/ casual workforces of thousands of people, on a daily basis, using swipe cards etc.

The fact that we can't make that work, this far into the Information Age, doesn't give me hope for our ability to exploit other emerging technology like drones and AI.

Swipe cards were a consideration in the early 90s but was killed because the troops were not trusted. The thought was one person could collect cards and swipe them all for a small cut of the pay. Imagine that thought about reserve units. Of course I didn't mention that there was nothing stopping them from doing the same thing with a pay sheet pre-signed and handed in when desired.

I am and always have been a believer that every unit should have some civilian clerical staff to keep things grounded. I hated it when they took 2 civilians from me when they redid the reserve establishment and thought I should be happy I was getting 2 class b positions. Every chance I got I asked when they were changing it back.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Reserves have always recruited to their base trades. Infantry recruit infantry, artillery recruit artillery. Brought this up at a unit in the 80's at a meeting and the answer was - why should we recruit clerks, that's the service bn job. Of course talking to the svc bn and they were not recruiting clerks either, they were busy with sup tech, veh tech, drivers, weapon techs.

Blend some units. One combat or combat support function sub-unit with one of (blended) CSS. Could probably be done within a paid ceiling of 150 (minimum for viability). Could probably offer 8 or more trades to prospective recruits.