I've had a variety of problems even with the fact that I'm on my BE.
the one that stuck the most out of my head; the lack of sending me on roto 3. they cut an entire platoon out, when they damn well should have had a fully company go out on that roto. the amount of time those boys put in was insane (wonderbread I'm sure can back me up on that). and to top it off, we had to train reservists to take our spots while over there because when leave started to kick in they didn't have enough troops in julien, so they started pulling troops from mirage.
then there was also doing ex's that have no true meaning behind what we do (I've been on two that actually had any purpose behind what we do anymore, I actually enjoyed those ex's).
another thing was how you were told that all this neato coolio stuff was going to happen; if you're not in a mech battalion, good friggin luck getting a jump course. to this day I still don't know how I got the course. I'm still waiting for my jungle warfare course
a lack of just fun training in general; mix it up during pt. I'm a guy that can NOT run if his life depended on it, I'm just a horrible runner. so on the one ruck march we were doing, we went to the soccer field and played tag basically; bloody hard, and pretty good for PT. havin fun without even realising it, that I'd like to see more. there's been an occasion back in my first battalion days, where we did cqc for an afternoon. that was probably the funnest training I had in the coy lines, without being on a course/tasked out with a different unit.
some NCO's don't realise this; but being passed up for courses. the two courses I got in the first battalion (air brakes, that's right got that before driver wheel, and ML, JUST ML) I just happend to get the course because the other guy already had the course; yet I look at my buddies and they're on their fourth or fifth course by the time I got my second one. that ticked me off alot. as we speak, I'm still trying to get my LSVW and my gwagon course.
I have to admit that there's alot of guys that won't look out for each other anymore. I listen to some of the CFLer's or masterjack or friendly sgt's that tell stories about how it was even just eight years ago, to me that's how it should be like. taking care of each other, at work and even outside of work. dragging buddy back from shots all the way back to the shacks because they blew all their money at the bar trying to score.
plus the beaucracy and paperwork that "needs" to happen anymore. like the rock climbing wall, why in the bloody heck do you have to go through range control to use the rock climbing wall in dondal drill hall?!? I can understand a need for a box amb, but not to inform range control of something that's not even in the training area.
there's a ton of other things I've noticed; but really that's the major things that this private has seen through the three battalions he has been in.
feel free to contradict me, I'm always willing to learn of course.
Greg