Wookilar said:
Oh, and FredG, just to add to what you said about equal work for equal pay wrt former Reservist ROTP and straight ROTP, I do the same job as you, but I mainintain the pay level I had before I accepted UTPNCM. But of course, you say, that makes sense. I have been in for x amount of years, I should keep the pay. That's what is exactly happening with the Reservists. This is not just free money, it is backpay for the time served and the difference in pay that someone would get If they had maintained that rank in the first place.
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I'm maybe grossly mistaken, but I thought all UTPNCM's transfered from a Reg F NCM position? If that is the case, I would assume it's simply a component transfer or something very siimilar that took place, which would explain why you keep your former pay. Also the tiny fact that UTP's have lives, families, bills, etc.
There are already many RMC-specific provisions in the CF, ranging from RMC OCdt's not being entitled to IECS kit, to the uniforms we wear, and leave we can ask for. It baffles me why there wouldn't be a provision for this. There's no shortage of brass complaining of the need for more money, yet there seems to be an unlimited bank of retroactive money waiting to be thrown at 18-22 yr olds, many of whom have small, if any debts, let alone families, etc to pay for.
In addition, in talking to one of my fourth yr buds (who BTW is entiled to a $93,000 pay off, How's that for tax dollars at work!) he said he had asked about this very same procedure in past, and was told it wasn;t allowed. This yr, perhaps someone filed a grievance, or challeged the pay offices' decision, or whatever, but the office has obviosuly agreed. Therefore, theroretically, wouldn't anyone that was in Res F, came to RMC and graduated, since the time these "pay equilibrium" regulations were published, be entitled to a crap load of money too?