Jarnhamar
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Half serious half banter, here are some idea's I've had on fixing Petawawa.
1)Staring.
Wait, maybe leering is a better word. That's chargable too isn't it?
I'd say this is a 98% Regular force thing. I don't know why but everyone on the base seems to stare at you. You drive by someone and they just stare. Not so much the stare down posturing challenge to a death match type stare, just leering at you.
I've asked about it before. "It's just someone seeing if they recognize you" or "it's because you're new". Bullshit. That takes 1 to 3 seconds. Leering at someone for 8 seconds is creepy. Even if you do notice a new guy in the hood, give them a nod and smile. Don't stare at em like a zombie. I'm sure people who do it don't even realise it, it happens. Next time your driving around CFB Petawawa just glace (not leer) around at people and you'll see what I mean.
2)Traffic.
I'm not sure how to fix this, but it's crazy. Maybe I'm just not used to it. At peek times it can take over 20 minutes to travel what normally takes 45 seconds. Would throwing up a nother bridge across the river help? Towards all the houses on the north (?) side of town?
3)Accommodation.
For the last 11 ish years any time I've been to pet the buildings were always being fixed, I'm not sure if their just slapping a bandaid on a severed artery here or what. Another fun word they use is renovation. The building is under renovation, their turning this 2 person room into a 1 person room. (That was the story in 2003) Ya right. You know what that REALLY means? That 2 person room is getting 4 people shoved into it. Reserve Sgt's and WO's heading up to Pet for TF0308 found that out the unpleasant way. Privates and Corporals? Their stuffed 6 to 8 people to a room for the 10 month duration. Some got lucky with only 4 to a room and a select few found accommodations at their parent unit lines but many are still 6 to 7 a room. There just isn't room. (I'll add the accommodations people have an insane job trying to juggle this and I think bust their balls at it so good on them)
Anyhow why can't we just stop patching up old buildings, stop the renovation attempts and just build a new building? Or a few. Maybe another large L101 type building for augmentee's and/or some more of the town house like the G lines for people staying on base 6 months +.
4)Army surplus.
I'm not sure why Pet doesn't have a booming army surplus. Maybe people feel that such a store would promote kit thief and stealing and selling of DND items? There is a new shop that just opened. Full Spectrum Gear right in petawawa. Awesome store with great staff, if you haven't checked it out you should.
Down side(if you could call it that) is it's all brand new stuff, sometimes it's more effective to pick up something second hand.
5)Base supply.
No complaints about these guys and girls. Very hard workers who have a huge work load (they always have customers) and the supply staff are friendly and helpful and don't just rush you along.
What I think they(supply system) should do, however, is that when a base is gearing up to send people on tour- order extra kit! Stock up on common items, especially boots and uniforms. Bases that are standing up battlegroups that have supply shortages should have priority and have these shortages addressed asap. Pet just got an extra 400+ soldiers for almost a year, that's a serious drain on the system.
From a reserve point of view, some regiments do everything they can to outfit their augmente's before sending them on work up training because they don't want to send guys up there with huge kit deficiencies.
Other regiments figure why not just let petawawa (or whoever) outfit them so they can save their stuff for the guys staying at the regiment. Right or wrong who to blame aside, the importance should be getting soldiers going overseas the kit them need.
6)Martial Arts.
For a combat base full of 'warriors' I'm really surprised there are not more martial arts schools in the area.
Do the regular force often train in hand to hand combat either as PT, classes or a course? PT and learning to defend yourself, really surprised you don't see more of it in pet.
1)Staring.
Wait, maybe leering is a better word. That's chargable too isn't it?
I'd say this is a 98% Regular force thing. I don't know why but everyone on the base seems to stare at you. You drive by someone and they just stare. Not so much the stare down posturing challenge to a death match type stare, just leering at you.
I've asked about it before. "It's just someone seeing if they recognize you" or "it's because you're new". Bullshit. That takes 1 to 3 seconds. Leering at someone for 8 seconds is creepy. Even if you do notice a new guy in the hood, give them a nod and smile. Don't stare at em like a zombie. I'm sure people who do it don't even realise it, it happens. Next time your driving around CFB Petawawa just glace (not leer) around at people and you'll see what I mean.
2)Traffic.
I'm not sure how to fix this, but it's crazy. Maybe I'm just not used to it. At peek times it can take over 20 minutes to travel what normally takes 45 seconds. Would throwing up a nother bridge across the river help? Towards all the houses on the north (?) side of town?
3)Accommodation.
For the last 11 ish years any time I've been to pet the buildings were always being fixed, I'm not sure if their just slapping a bandaid on a severed artery here or what. Another fun word they use is renovation. The building is under renovation, their turning this 2 person room into a 1 person room. (That was the story in 2003) Ya right. You know what that REALLY means? That 2 person room is getting 4 people shoved into it. Reserve Sgt's and WO's heading up to Pet for TF0308 found that out the unpleasant way. Privates and Corporals? Their stuffed 6 to 8 people to a room for the 10 month duration. Some got lucky with only 4 to a room and a select few found accommodations at their parent unit lines but many are still 6 to 7 a room. There just isn't room. (I'll add the accommodations people have an insane job trying to juggle this and I think bust their balls at it so good on them)
Anyhow why can't we just stop patching up old buildings, stop the renovation attempts and just build a new building? Or a few. Maybe another large L101 type building for augmentee's and/or some more of the town house like the G lines for people staying on base 6 months +.
4)Army surplus.
I'm not sure why Pet doesn't have a booming army surplus. Maybe people feel that such a store would promote kit thief and stealing and selling of DND items? There is a new shop that just opened. Full Spectrum Gear right in petawawa. Awesome store with great staff, if you haven't checked it out you should.
Down side(if you could call it that) is it's all brand new stuff, sometimes it's more effective to pick up something second hand.
5)Base supply.
No complaints about these guys and girls. Very hard workers who have a huge work load (they always have customers) and the supply staff are friendly and helpful and don't just rush you along.
What I think they(supply system) should do, however, is that when a base is gearing up to send people on tour- order extra kit! Stock up on common items, especially boots and uniforms. Bases that are standing up battlegroups that have supply shortages should have priority and have these shortages addressed asap. Pet just got an extra 400+ soldiers for almost a year, that's a serious drain on the system.
From a reserve point of view, some regiments do everything they can to outfit their augmente's before sending them on work up training because they don't want to send guys up there with huge kit deficiencies.
Other regiments figure why not just let petawawa (or whoever) outfit them so they can save their stuff for the guys staying at the regiment. Right or wrong who to blame aside, the importance should be getting soldiers going overseas the kit them need.
6)Martial Arts.
For a combat base full of 'warriors' I'm really surprised there are not more martial arts schools in the area.
Do the regular force often train in hand to hand combat either as PT, classes or a course? PT and learning to defend yourself, really surprised you don't see more of it in pet.
