ARmy Rumour SErvice

**MiracleBill** · 08-08-2012, 17:07

Is it time for the RD fraternity to take their place in the relevant Ops team?
At the very least training could be de conflicted in an organised manner. Or can they keep their nice offices and just revert to low pay band?

**Roadster280** · 08-08-2012, 17:35

**MiracleBill** · 08-08-2012, 17:39

Is that you in your nice walnut office, all to yourself?

**PapaGolf** · 08-08-2012, 17:54

Isn't the RSM, historically on operations, the CO's driver/escort? That and i/c casualty handling/graves affairs. I can't really see them having anything else to do, as it will all be covered by YofS/FofS/RQMS Tech+Gen/MTWO/RCWO. With the QMSI in charge of prisoners. Could be wrong though. Any older generations on here who remember the old days (even before the days of that 'long gun')?

**Roadster280** · 08-08-2012, 17:58

Originally Posted by MiracleBill

Is that you in your nice walnut office, all to yourself?

No, it's something I found on the Internet, surprisingly enough.

However, it gets the point across. Surely these kind of threads have been done to death. RD do boots and haircuts. YofS/FofS do technical planning. Officers nod approvingly, then get shitfaced in the mess. LEs just get shitfaced in the mess and don't give a fuck what the rest think. Toms do the work.

Tried, tested, and true.

**MiracleBill** · 08-08-2012, 18:11

Originally Posted by roadster280

No, it's something I found on the Internet, surprisingly enough.

However, it gets the point across. Surely these kind of threads have been done to death. RD do boots and haircuts. YofS/FofS do technical planning. Officers nod approvingly, then get shitfaced in the mess. LEs just get shitfaced in the mess and don't give a fuck what the rest think. Toms do the work.

Tried, tested, and true.

Couple of points to consider.
Equal pay should mean equal responsibility.
And as our core business is delivering communications, how about increasing the horsepower in the Ops room by including the RSM / SSM possibly on the pers / trg desk.

Everything should be suspect to review and change.

**Under_Stated** · 08-08-2012, 18:25

And ensures repatriation goes well to.... I agree with Roadster....This is irrelavent, Bore Off......... RSMs should contribute to the Ops Planning Team for sure..... and they have in all have done in all the deployed operations less those deployed with a formed JFCIS.... Get some time in on Contingency Ops and be an RSM and you might realise what a RSM actually does.....

**MiracleBill** · 08-08-2012, 18:43

Originally Posted by Under_Stated

And ensures repatriation goes well to.... I agree with Roadster....This is irrelavent, Bore Off......... RSMs should contribute to the Ops Planning Team for sure..... and they have in all have done in all the deployed operations less those deployed with a formed JFCIS.... Get some time in on Contingency Ops and be an RSM and you might realise what a RSM actually does.....

Repatriations, really? If so, that means 2 are gainfully employed every 6 months. I'm looking at getting more out of the RD machine full stop (excluding J4). YofS and FofS used to have separate offices and now sit together in Ops rooms, probably with an OpsO. An obvious improvement. For a technical Corps we put a lot of emphasis on non technical personell, (excluding organic J4 that is).

**ashford_old_school** · 08-08-2012, 18:54

Originally Posted by MiracleBill

Repatriations, really? If so, that means 2 are gainfully employed every 6 months. I'm looking at getting more out of the RD machine full stop (excluding J4). YofS and FofS used to have separate offices and now sit together in Ops rooms, probably with an OpsO. An obvious improvement. For a technical Corps we put a lot of emphasis on non technical personell, (excluding organic J4 that is).

Repatriations are the bringing back of soldiers lost on ops. Not the movement of troops in and out of theatre for each evolution of Herrick.