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What is the situation for militia infantry units out there?
I believe the picture below is representative of infantry units around my area (34 CBG - Montreal):
1. All support weapons are pooled within the Brigade. If a PSWQ is running at the same time as an Ex, platoons sometimes have no C6.
2. 84mm Carl Gustav is almost impossible to get for Ex
3. No 60 mm mortars in the vaults either. A refresher on that wouldn't hurt...
4. There are is no other range time other than the yearly PWT-3 on IBTS.
5. That very same PWT level 3 is run without any range practices.
6. The only troops who get to fire C9 or C6 live for IBTS are the soldiers who have been assigned that weapon. i.e. infantry soldiers might go for three or four years without firing an MG live.
7. There is hardly any time and/or budget allocated for PT.
8. Ridiculous amounts of blank ammo on Ex (e.g. 4 mags for a whole weekend of Platoon Attacks)
9. An obsessive focus by RHQ on "numbers" and recruiting, almost at the expense of retention.
10. No adventure training whatsoever.
11. No 60mm Mortar in the vaults
12. Even rappelling is rare. I haven't gone down a rappell tower in at least two years.
13. Pugil sticks? I vaguely remember doing that four or five years ago...
14. Refresher of C6 in SF role/C2 sight for those who are qualified? Let me get back to you on that one....
15. Anyone actually qualified on the GPS? I think its covered in the Basic Recce Patrolman course we don't get.
I hear reserve infantry units out in LFWA (perhaps elsewhere too) have taskings: Urban S&R, Amphibious Ops, Mountain Ops, etc. This has been unheard of in LFQA for almost a decade. "
Sometimes I get the feeling that NDHQ believes it is only a matter of time before Quebec separates - and they have already written us off. The English-speaking units in QC (mostly around Montreal) tend to feel they're caught in the middle: written off by one side and despised by the other.
But then again, It just might be a case of the grass being greener elsewhere...
How are things in your unit, Brigade, your area/province?
I believe the picture below is representative of infantry units around my area (34 CBG - Montreal):
1. All support weapons are pooled within the Brigade. If a PSWQ is running at the same time as an Ex, platoons sometimes have no C6.
2. 84mm Carl Gustav is almost impossible to get for Ex
3. No 60 mm mortars in the vaults either. A refresher on that wouldn't hurt...
4. There are is no other range time other than the yearly PWT-3 on IBTS.
5. That very same PWT level 3 is run without any range practices.
6. The only troops who get to fire C9 or C6 live for IBTS are the soldiers who have been assigned that weapon. i.e. infantry soldiers might go for three or four years without firing an MG live.
7. There is hardly any time and/or budget allocated for PT.
8. Ridiculous amounts of blank ammo on Ex (e.g. 4 mags for a whole weekend of Platoon Attacks)
9. An obsessive focus by RHQ on "numbers" and recruiting, almost at the expense of retention.
10. No adventure training whatsoever.
11. No 60mm Mortar in the vaults
12. Even rappelling is rare. I haven't gone down a rappell tower in at least two years.
13. Pugil sticks? I vaguely remember doing that four or five years ago...
14. Refresher of C6 in SF role/C2 sight for those who are qualified? Let me get back to you on that one....
15. Anyone actually qualified on the GPS? I think its covered in the Basic Recce Patrolman course we don't get.
I hear reserve infantry units out in LFWA (perhaps elsewhere too) have taskings: Urban S&R, Amphibious Ops, Mountain Ops, etc. This has been unheard of in LFQA for almost a decade. "
Sometimes I get the feeling that NDHQ believes it is only a matter of time before Quebec separates - and they have already written us off. The English-speaking units in QC (mostly around Montreal) tend to feel they're caught in the middle: written off by one side and despised by the other.
But then again, It just might be a case of the grass being greener elsewhere...
How are things in your unit, Brigade, your area/province?