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The bright idea that people are perfectly happy to travel to Glencorse for a Medical on a week day is as stupid as Cletus.....
It's their RG8 medical forms which are now having to go to Glencorse.
The bright idea that people are perfectly happy to travel to Glencorse for a Medical on a week day is as stupid as Cletus.....
18 odd years ago I just waked into my local TA unit and said "Can I join" I knew they existed, I knew what the TA did, I knew they got paid, not from watching some poxy TV ad but from friends who had been in the TA. If I was joining now, I'd be put off by the never ending crap and makework just to get in. As for traveling to Scotland for a medical, I'm joining the TA, not the regulars. Which incidentally used to do the medical in the same town as the Army Careers Office that I went into to join
I still think a citizen reserve thing could work if given the chance. take the kids at school into cadets then onto basic training and every year a two week mandatory top up for 20 years.
mid level you have those who enjoy it and become a operational reserve like TA are supposed to be - instant army just add beer. set it at say 200k split between home service and deployable volunteers the hardest part will be getting society used to the idea again. as anyone wanting to to shoot stuff buys a playstation/xbox now instead. home service troops may be called on to assist in domestic issues like floods and riots so medics engineers police type units which are usefull if we end up 'nation building' again. the volunteers will be the high tempo kinetic trained types we should have allways had rather than having the TA as an after thought to strip down when no one was looking. the post cold war decimation of good units left a bitter aftertaste for a lot of people who maybe now have sons who would have followed dad into the reserves but are persuaded to go elsewhere for their hobbies.
give them a decent tax break as well as a bounty.
Good plan in theory, however as we all know, no plan survives contact with the enemy. I
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It would appear that Ho2331 didn't either. Wonder what size boots he took...
Big fat fingers struck the send button before I'd finished my gripe.
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Bugger.
I needed some new boots.
We struggle to recruit people into the TA for purely demographic reasons.
Britain is mainly inhabited by gopping shit-cnuts. The thought of putting up with half of what a soldier puts up with has the majority of our junior bed wetters waddling away at full speed.
As for discipline then forget it.
Those that have got what it takes are put off by the fact that the offer does not match the reward. In fact, I don't think the MoD has even dreamt about asking how they could improve the offer to that dwindling species that is the decent youth of Britain.
That's what I think.
We struggle to recruit people into the TA for purely demographic reasons.
Britain is mainly inhabited by gopping shit-cnuts. The thought of putting up with half of what a soldier puts up with has the majority of our junior bed wetters waddling away at full speed.
As for discipline then forget it.
Those that have got what it takes are put off by the fact that the offer does not match the reward. In fact, I don't think the MoD has even dreamt about asking how they could improve the offer to that dwindling species that is the decent youth of Britain.
That's what I think.
The simple truth is that most people couldn't give a fcuk for their next door neighbour, never mind doing anything for their community, or shock-horror Country.
People could give a **** for neighbours, community & country.
People don't give a **** for politician's egos.
Someone coming of age today has never seen the armed forces do anything other than meddle, ineffectually, in the affairs of other nations at the whim of politicians trying to carve a niche for themselves.
If that does not change, then the recruitment demographic will be those who cannot find employment elsewhere and the borderline psychopath.
It's their RG8 medical forms which are now having to go to Glencorse.
The problem is this: if this cohort of part-time Klingons exists (which, as you rightly point out probably doesn't), why aren't they already in the TA filling their boots with medals?