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Kirkhill said:Simpler solution. 6 Taskforces instead of 9. 8 month tours instead of 6. 1 tour every two years.
This one deserves discussion. When are we going to break out of 6 month-itis?
Dave
Kirkhill said:Simpler solution. 6 Taskforces instead of 9. 8 month tours instead of 6. 1 tour every two years.
PPCLI Guy said:This one deserves discussion. When are we going to break out of 6 month-itis?
Infanteer said:As discussed else where, I think 6 months is the ideal breakdown for a rotation cycle, especially if Career cycles can be fixed with it. Ideally, I would like to a see a two year rotation that sees 6 months small unit training (Indiv/Section/Platoon), 6 Months unit training and Strategic Reserve (Up to Brigade), 6 Months Ready Reserve/Deployed, and 6 months Drawdown (course, taskings). This can be broken into nice two year cycles. Moving to longer time frames may make it harder to apply "Career Cycles". This is the logic I am using when I state "6 months".
PPCLI Guy said:To put my question in context, I spent a couple of hours in Ottawa yesterday doing a preliminary mission analysis for ROTO 4. How does one create a campaign plan for a single ROTO? Whither the continuity? What of the uproar of frequent rotations?
Kirkhill said:9 month tours would mean a 36 month cycle, the length of a Basic Engagement. New Entries could join their units at the beginning of Sub-Unit Training period having completed their basic individual training and would serve out their engagement with one unit.
Green | Yellow | Red | WAR |
One BG/TF indefinitely deployed One BG/TF in Reserve | Two BG/TF indefinitely deployed One BG/TF in Reserve | Bde(-) indefinitely deployed One BG/TF in Reserve | Whatever is needed |
6 Months | 6 Months | 1 Year (if Bde(-) has 2 or less manoeuvre units, those may stay on 6 month cycle) | indefinite |
Orange | Red |
Bde(-) indefinitely deployed including two BG (or less) indefinitely deployed One BG/TF in Reserve | Bde indefinitely deployed including three BG indefinitely deployed One BG/TF in Reserve |
1 Year for Bde units & HQ 6 Months for Mvr units | 1 Year for all |
Are you saying that "6 months is not a large enough time frame to allow a unit to effect a significant presence" and that "frequent turnovers on ROTOs are a costly thing in both resources and local knowledge"? That is how I am reading that.
2Bravo said:We might also want to take a look at our pre-deployment training.