On the CR2 upgrade thread, I published this post, which will go down in the anals of ARRSE history:
"This has come up in many threads. Several of the same points over and over, including how, as the army/military shrinks, the truly talented bugger off elsewhere and the group-think specialists stay on because, frankly, they know they'd be caught out if they left.
That's not wholly true. As in policing, there are some truly talented and dedicated individuals who are remaining because they know that if they go the job's truly fücked, if I may borrow a phrase.
Current recruiting, though, seems to be doing a good job of alienating the traditional feedstock while not doing a very good job of attracting the non-traditional. Those complaints about gender and ethnicity have a fair basis in fact.
So, in many cases, we're caught between dinosaurs, mediocrities and those who seem determined to dismantle the system from within.
Probably a discussion for a different thread, though."
So, here it is.
"This has come up in many threads. Several of the same points over and over, including how, as the army/military shrinks, the truly talented bugger off elsewhere and the group-think specialists stay on because, frankly, they know they'd be caught out if they left.
That's not wholly true. As in policing, there are some truly talented and dedicated individuals who are remaining because they know that if they go the job's truly fücked, if I may borrow a phrase.
Current recruiting, though, seems to be doing a good job of alienating the traditional feedstock while not doing a very good job of attracting the non-traditional. Those complaints about gender and ethnicity have a fair basis in fact.
So, in many cases, we're caught between dinosaurs, mediocrities and those who seem determined to dismantle the system from within.
Probably a discussion for a different thread, though."
So, here it is.
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