Quote from Hellfyyr
"Have you tried to improve their lot? From your post I assume you are a full screw? What you need to do is instill a good working ethos and make the best of free time for sport, activities and training. If they are bored and unchallenged they will sit about bemoaning their life and will eventually leave."
Sorry Helldcik, is this a wind up post or do you really have no idea about what telemechs have to offer the world?
DISCO, I fully (almost) agree with all of your posts
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"The IS world needs to step back a little and bring more Inst Techs into their responsabilities. The result in what we can provide and support will be more dynamic."
Damn right fella: WTF is DII doing charging the earth for providing half cut unworkable structured wired ??solutions?? with no surviveabiltiy for future user requirement.
I think Inst Techs have lots to offer the Corps and ARMY not just in terms of skills but also in terms of value for money, however politics have removed this option for the moment. Don't get me wrong DII is moving in the right direction, however powers that be are too quick to sub contract to ex-tradesmen at more cost to the taxpayer.
Looking to the immediate future and Bowman, lets be optomistic and say Bowman is operational in half of the deployable Army by 2015; Lets be honest and look at what tradegroups can support the battlegropus.
Mechs/Techs - Fit soldiers (some techs too) who are able to deploy anywhere in the world and have the trade skills to provide immediate first line connectivity and LRU assistance to the customer in an operational theatre thus providing a medium capable of passing useful(less) information.
Operators - Obvious, people who break generators, worship RTG's,
whinge about doing hard work and bite to pathetics threads looking for a bite.
IS Op - Some bloke sat by Lord Melchards drinks cabinet remotely installing a printer, remotely unlocking a password or remotely understanding the requirement of the Staff in a deployed HQ.
Dvr Ln - Someone who ensures all of our green taxis are roadworthy, and has lots of strange habits!
Not having a dig at IS Ops but the way technology is advancing why do you/they need a green uniform? Providing you are connected and your equipment is serviceable why do you need to eat rations.(deploy).
Actually, that is a dig, but no apologies.
Civilianise the Mech at the cost of the taxpayer, but until WIFI and similar technologies are accepted as secure by the MOD then there will/should always be a job out there.
Hope this unbiased(joke) post stimulates discussion
Rgds Dave