ARmy Rumour SErvice

Still lots of things left to clean though.

Then there is tents to put up..........

It is my opinion that the Corps has been on a downward spiral ever since we let the so-called ex-Corps Yeoman Dave K$$g, take over the re-org of the trade training. He took away the need for the 2-1 crammer, stopping us from filtering out all the shite from even getting to Blandford. He took away about 75 percent of the upgrade course, as well as removing the Pass/Fail aspect of the 2-1. Another reason why Yeomans of today can't do HF, let alone know anything about it.
I think that 75 percent of a communications procedures lesson is down to operational experience, and how that equipment or procedure is used in that environment. It changes the students response to "What the fuck is he on about?" to "Oh right, I get it now". So how the fuck would a junior soldier or indeed a Cpl Upgrader get the full benefit of a comms lesson, enabling them in turn to go out to an operational theatre and put those lessons into practice and then go back to their unit to teach those same procedures to class 3's, if that initial lesson is given by someone or indeed manufactured by someone who's last great communications experience (and has ZERO operational experience) was on fucking Larkspur!!
Yes by all means let them teach subjects that won't change, or change slightly. But don't for fuck sake put the cunts in charge of Course Planning!

Originally Posted by MiracleBill

With our operators not doing much operating and our techs not doing much teching should we become the Royal Corps of Network Managers and Infrastructure Fitters?

Not really. Royal Corps of Signals and, of course, our motto 'Reliable Information Quickly' seems to fit the bill still.

What frequencies do we need to manage? Will Falcon bring us to the good old Ptarmigan days?

The grownups need to realise we do tactical and strategic communications. Treating everything the same doesn't work!

Then they need to keep people in post long enough to learn how to use systems, base skills are ok but without the ability to manage them without assistance from outside agencies it won't work long term.

I wonder. can do TCP/IP over HF?

Do we really do tactical comms? I think once Sigs Platoons are all over TacSat the need for RSIST will fold. Unless they have complete mongs in the Pl. they pick it up. RSO is different at the moment but D Inf won't want his blokes to be pushed out by Scalies forever.