Sig_Des said:
JaSO, don't start, I know you did an infantry basic on weekends, but let's be honest, Comm Res doesn't like sending people out of command. It undercuts their justification of having their own recruit school in Shilo.
Still can't figure out why Shilo doesn't run one last recruit course in September... pick up the slack of pers who couldn't be loaded on during the summer courses and maybe even squeeze in a few medical RTUs from early in the summer... biggest problem in CommRes School Shilo has always been getting staff to go there, but I'm sure they can muster enough instructors and support staff to run a recruit course... I'm sure at least a quarter the people already on ground would be able to stay for it... I'm also sure the school could retain enough weapons (They're all on loan from units who'd need them for training during the fall/winter/spring) for those extra months for *one* course + instructors... only other kit problem is retaining radios, but even if they couldn't be scrounged somewhere, waive the requirement to learn the radios themselves, and use motorolas to teach basic VP and for the field ex. Run it starting in September, and you'll have your troops out before winter hits, no need for winter equipment... even if you want to think dirty in terms of money and efficiency, if you've got people available for the support posistions, you could even have them on ground starting in May and have them out in October early enough to avoid having to pay them class C.
That way, you've got pers who are BMQ qualified by November, so they're useful to the unit, then you can either load them on the SQ courses following the summer BMQ courses the following year (There's always extra room on the SQ courses, as there's enough room for everyone who was on BMQ, and there's always VRs, medical RTUs and just plain booted people during BMQ) or run an SQ course parallel to the first BMQ course of the year (All kit is already on ground, all support pers are on ground, cut the course down to 2 sections instead of 3 because there likely won't have enough pers to fill out 3 sections, and you should be able to get enough instructors), they should be done more or less in time to hand their weapons over to the second BMQ course of the year, and be loaded onto a QL3 course in Kingston.
Wait... was that a good idea? Silly logical thoughts...
Spidron didn't give specific dates, he said that he couldn't make it for this summer. Plus, the paperwork hasn't been finalized, and there's a limited number of positions available on courses. They've pretty much got course lists filled up by now.
200-250 positions for 23(?) comm res units across Canada. Seems like a lot of positions, but Sig_Des is right, fills up fast.
Besides, I'm done flying a desk as of tomorrow! WHOOOOOO!!! Back to in-trade work! 8)
Well darn, doesn't that also mean end of contract?