Originally Posted by H3

So what type of job do you want when your on tour ?

Seem's to me you think your above others which will go down well in Theatre !!

Well I did the job I was called up to do in Theatre. That is the beauty of having a specialist qualification, I got called up to do my TA role NOT as one of a Bde HQ's guesses of how many blokes they need.

I don't know how you got that I seem to think I am above others from that post. However by being deployed with rank anyone from LCpl up is "above others" and should perform and act as such.

As others have said on here the problem arises when TA soldiers get parachuted (not literally) into a regiment a month before they deploy. By that time the Regt have mostly decided their ORBAT and cannot make a decision on any TA soldier as they don't know them. The only way around this is to do the full PDT. This does mean though, extending in Theatre which isn't always possible.

For fucks sake. If you even have to ask this question then you probably shouldn't be going on Ops in the first place. The Reg boys treat you alright as long as you're willing to graft as they do. Its old school TA types who treat the TA and Regs as such separate entities that are the biggest problem in fostering a good working environment when the TA gets mobilised.


"Is it cos I is STAB?"

Gee, A. Pte. 41st Loamshires. (2006)

Originally Posted by Mav

Seems like a pretty reasonable answer to me...

A reasonable answer to an unreasonable question.

Originally Posted by polar

What can you do, i.e. your getting the crap jobs because your TA - it's nothing to do with your ability, training, colour, sex, etc.

and no I'm not talking about Cyprus. And yes I expect the answers to be ... crack on, etc

Jog on and do as you're told, Matey. It's not going to burn itself.

Originally Posted by fozzy

There is no Stab v Reg element here, despite your inference

And the world is flat..

Originally Posted by polar

And the world is flat..

Based on you extensive experience of what?

I suggest you stop throwing stones in this particular glass house

Polar I don't understand why you're complaining? I would polish the CO's boots just to get on tour but because of my job spec can't until upgraded from P3. There are plenty of bods who volunteer for tour but the head shed won't let them to cover arses.


Sent from my iPhone using this Tapatalk thing....

When I joined the army I was told that I would be involved in the design and construction of camps, roads and airfields, I would build bridges, lay minefields and blow stuff up. I would be responsible for the provision of drinking water for thousands of parched warriors, raft great rivers from improvised materials and build field machines worthy of Roman ingenuity. I was also to be a welder capable of fabricating the most complicated of metal structures.

Nobody told me I had to sweep the parade square, paint rocks white or scrub the shit from a toilet. Nor did they tell me I had to spend mindless hours of my life walking round a camp armed with a pickelve. Or dig shit pits, mix concrete in the snow and print off orders on an ancient machine that left me covered in black ink. Nobody said anything about scrubbing pots in the cookhouse, picking up fag butts or standing freezing on a gate with a rifle and 10 rounds on the off chance that the next caller wanted to blow us up in our pits.

But I had sort of guessed that there would be shit jobs a-plenty. Didn't you?

Mr Polar, please admit to everyone right now that YOU are the STAB mong that gives us all a bad name and I promise not to be mean to you...

Slightly off topic, but I'd be [professionally] interested if this :

Originally Posted by The13thDukeOfWybourne

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I've got good young fit soldiers itching to get out there, yet we've had to drop them off the ORBAT so we can take TA soldiers..

is true. Surely this rather defeats the object ?

PM me if you see this Duke....