Military budget squeeze limits paid Remembrance Day participation in Ontario

[Jarnhamar]

Ive never seen it this bad in my entire reserve career from the end of Afghanistan to now. I can confidently say morale is in the toilet ARes-wide. Lots of indispensable mid-level ranks (MCpl-WO, Lt) grumbling about releases lately. If things dont improve near-term I can see things getting hairy. Maybe thats exactly what NDHQ wants. Idk.

Sounds like disinformation. We're hiring 300,000 reserve reservists

 

[Gordon Dundas/]

Ho hum , it's just a bunch of reservists, It's not like we're talking about real people. You know like somebody important....
You know it almost like nobody at at NDHQ understands where they get those people who fill in the gaps when you have to deploy say a battlegroup to Latvia.
Or where you get bodies to deal with floods , ice storms , fires ...
And coures we all know the only people who are in trouble aren't the ones who are deciding how the pot gets divvied up.
I feel sorry for those who've spoke to the media
Anyone want to bet that they spend more on investigating the leaks then it would have cost them to fork over the half day's pay to those units.
Please somebody please tell me I'm just being cynical.

 

[OldSolduer]

If there is one holy day for the CAF it is Remembrance Day. No one should be told there is a "cap" on parading soldiers.

 

[Gordon Dundas/]

If there is one holy day for the CAF it is Remembrance Day. No one should be told there is a "cap" on parading soldiers.

And that is the other thing that pisses me off .

 

[Furniture]

Ho hum , it's just a bunch of reservists, It's not like we're talking about real people. You know like somebody important....
You know it almost like nobody at at NDHQ understands where they get those people who fill in the gaps when you have to deploy say a battlegroup to Latvia.
Or where you get bodies to deal with floods , ice storms , fires ...
And coures we all know the only people who are in trouble aren't the ones who are deciding how the pot gets divvied up.
I feel sorry for those who've spoke to the media
Anyone want to bet that they spend more on investigating the leaks then it would have cost them to fork over the half day's pay to those units.
Please somebody please tell me I'm just being cynical.

Except it wasn't NDHQ that made that decision...

Blame NDHQ when they make bad policy, but don't blame them when an HQ a few levels lower makes an unpopular decision.

The entire CAF is having to find savings. One CBG decided that paying soldiers to parade was worth less than paying them to train.

 

[MilEME09]

Ive heard of no such thing in 41, this must be localized. I heard a lot of class Bs got cancelled in 31 too. Something tells me they got over zealous when budget was coming and now had to correct course.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Ive heard of no such thing in 41, this must be localized. I heard a lot of class Bs got cancelled in 31 too. Something tells me they got over zealous when budget was coming and now had to correct course.

How zelaous, exactly, can an ARes CBG get ?

 

[brihard]

How zelaous, exactly, can an ARes CBG get ?

@dapaterson read that and is rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere.

 

[Halifax Tar]

@dapaterson read that and is rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere.

I suspect he has written a response and deleted it a few time lol

 

[dapaterson]

@dapaterson read that and is rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere.

As an Army Reserve unit CO I never spent less than 150% of my initial allocation for Res F pay.

When you assume that units in kilts are incapable of doing math, and plan to spend the 25% of their allocation that they will fail to spend, you'll still leave money on the table .

 

[Halifax Tar]

As an Army Reserve unit CO I never spent less than 150% of my initial allocation for Res F pay.

When you assume that units in kilts skirts are incapable of doing math, and plan to spend the 25% of their allocation that they will fail to spend, you'll still leave money on the table .

FTFY

 

[MilEME09]

How zelaous, exactly, can an ARes CBG get ?

Handing out 1 and 3 year contracts like candy eats budget pretty quickly. I was offered a 3 year to augment our regforce tech but turned it down. Not worth the pay cut