markppcli
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Honest question, what does the Regular Force do day to day in Garrison that makes them so special?
How many live training days of training do the Regular Force conduct in a year?
How many hours a day, week, month, year are spent doing PT, sweeping the lines or doing routine maintenance on equipment? That is just filler time.
In garrison we probably spent 8-10 hours training a week. That’s a week that we aren’t on course or doing an exercise. We run 4 PCF cycles a year, and probably spend somewhere in the 100 ish range in terms of days in the field. Beyond that it’s maintaining that kit, pre and post ex drills. Also PT isn’t filler time, that’s a critical job task, thinking kit maintenance is filler time is equally foolish, every minute a guy spends working on their LAV / Tank / MSVS is important a) to ensure they work and b) to ensure the soldiers are familiar with fixing them when they are being used operational. Nothing “makes the reg force special” it’s just a professional job.
I call shenanigans that there’s 100 gunners in any reserve artillery regiment. Even pre so that will show up for the non sexy routine training.