msr said:
Perhaps you would like to substantiate your 'beliefs'...
msr
The TA has changed with the regular element of the army wanting the TA to generate a number of better 'trained' reserves. Its been mentioned plenty of times that this helps create a mobilisation culture. So once training is complete, many newly trained soldiers then mobilise (and leave).
The TA CoC (I may be wrong here may have been regular) has also used recent years to increase the standards of its officers with their initial training and continuation training (or so it appears to be).
Then take the SNCO's nothing has really changed, suppose you could say CLM but that tends to be existing courses renamed. You could take the view that SNCO (& Cpls) courses were fine but other courses were fine and had to go through the b*gger*tion of this one army concept.
...but then the truth comes out. SNCO's are inadequately trained and to convert them to officers requires them to undertake officer recruit training (maybe not now but I see the writing on the wall - its been mentioned in a couple of recent threads).
also why haven't SNCO's had the b*gger*tion of this one army concept?? I wouldn't be suprised someone somewhere asked what do we need from TA SNCO's?
A. Someone to drive recruits/TAPO's to their training, count blankets, train recruits and run stores. We don't really want to mobilise them, many won't want to anyway, we can always let a select few through.