Reconstitution

[PuckChaser]

Last time I looked about 40% of P Res folks in the MCpl to WO / Capt/Maj ranks were already on full time service. There isn't a pool of folks ready to surge.

The Reg F needs to sort itself out and wean itself from full time Res F backfill.

GoC and CDS need to stop adding tasks before that can happen. Years after reconstitution became a priority, we're deploying more often, with less people and less O&M to cover the breakage. We're in a toilet spiral and it only stops at MND and cabinet level.

 

[OldSolduer]

GoC and CDS need to stop adding tasks before that can happen. Years after reconstitution became a priority, we're deploying more often, with less people and less O&M to cover the breakage. We're in a toilet spiral and it only stops at MND and cabinet level.

When I retired it seemed every task coming down the line was "no fail". When your troops are run ragged, their equipment basically worn out, and the maintenance budget ain't there, expect failure.
And the failure will be massive and expect lots of finger pointing at DND/CAF ....at the politicians at each other.

 

[Navy_Pete]

When I retired it seemed every task coming down the line was "no fail". When your troops are run ragged, their equipment basically worn out, and the maintenance budget ain't there, expect failure.
And the failure will be massive and expect lots of finger pointing at DND/CAF ....at the politicians at each other.

That hasn't changed, people just stopped listening and 'no fails' are more like 'yeah, sure if we can manage it but don't count on it for sure'.

 

[Navy_Pete]

So on top of all the other nuisances, making Supp Res useful (which should be in some ways easier than sorting out the various permutations of PRes existence and organization) needs looking at?

No idea really but it would be nice if you were able to have some kind of contact list for supp res folks to actively call them up for specific openings they were qualified for. Edit: didn't phrase that well; meant literally call them to see if they were interested.

Kind of a moot point with the budget cuts anyway; don't need more people if you don't have funding for them to do things like purchases. Would be awesome though if NICP and other funds get pumped up though to be able to get folks that are semi retired working part time through the supp res on supporting projects, purchases, policy updates, occupation overhauls, helping run courses and all the other tasks that come up where you need someone with experience.