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daftandbarmy said:
At Depot PARA in the mid-80s, after 6 weeks of training and testing, we gave our recruits rifles and had them doing perimeter patrols of the base as part of the regular guard force because: IRA threat.

Depending on how you do it and (more importantly) who you have doing it, you can absolutely prepare a civilian for certain aspects of military life in that timeframe.
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The Ukrainian marching and right turns looked a bit shambolic but their field work didn't look bad.
 
FJAG said:
I expect there's more than a little bit of hubris and exaggeration to the statement that straight-off-the-street civilians are "pretty much fully-fledged infantry soldiers" after five weeks of training, but it does make one think about how long a training regime needs to be, doesn't it.

Takes me back to my Junior NCO course and understanding the difference between "Must-knows", "Should-knows", and "Could-knows".

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Makes you wonder about our own Army Reserve system. We try very hard to shoehorn a part-timer into the same training standard as a Reg Force member and of course when it doesn't work they require a long work-up training period to make them deployable anyway.

Maybe we could just have a significantly larger pool of troops trained to a basic level...a whole bunch of organized Platoons/Gun Detachments/Troops rather than Reserve units that try to mirror our Reg Force structures with Platoons/Companies/Battalions/Brigades as part of the ORBAT. When we need to ramp up you simply pull in as many of the part-timers as you need and create the new unit from scratch (kind of like the Korean War Special Force) and begin their work-up training and vehicle/weapon familiarization for their Roto 1 deployment.

Reg Force would be an NCO/Officer heavy Roto 0 force and the leadership cadre for the "Special Force" units.
 
GR66 said:
Makes you wonder about our own Army Reserve system. We try very hard to shoehorn a part-timer into the same training standard as a Reg Force member and of course when it doesn't work they require a long work-up training period to make them deployable anyway.

Maybe we could just have a significantly larger pool of troops trained to a basic level...a whole bunch of organized Platoons/Gun Detachments/Troops rather than Reserve units that try to mirror our Reg Force structures with Platoons/Companies/Battalions/Brigades as part of the ORBAT. When we need to ramp up you simply pull in as many of the part-timers as you need and create the new unit from scratch (kind of like the Korean War Special Force) and begin their work-up training and vehicle/weapon familiarization for their Roto 1 deployment.

Reg Force would be an NCO/Officer heavy Roto 0 force and the leadership cadre for the "Special Force" units.
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2 of 3 summers of 5 weeks on joining the Reserve? Plus a couple of weekends at the armouries each month.
 
New release

Policy paper

Integrated Review Refresh 2023: Responding to a more contested and volatile world​

The Integrated Review Refresh 2023 updates the government’s security, defence, development and foreign policy priorities to reflect changes in the global context since Integrated Review 2021.
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www.gov.uk

Integrated Review Refresh 2023: Responding to a more contested and volatile world

The Integrated Review Refresh 2023 updates the government’s security, defence, development and foreign policy priorities to reflect changes in the global context since Integrated Review 2021.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
 
GR66 said:
Sounds like a perfect solution for Canada...virtual training for our virtual equipment!
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Oh, wait, is that the Chimera entering the chat? ;)

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Corps 86's Chimera tank destroyer

When I did CACSC in 1990, we used the Corps 86 ORBAT, including the Chimera. We all understood that it was not a real vehicle (and not even a fully developed concept), but just a placeholder or "icon" to represent a capability for us to plan with. At the time, we thought of the Leo Jagdpanzer...
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This should spur some rethinking about retirement gifts ;)


Ex-soldier who murdered neighbours has minimum jail term cut​


A former soldier who stabbed his neighbours to death while their children slept upstairs has won an appeal after arguing the minimum amount of time he would have to serve in jail was too long.

Afghanistan veteran Collin Reeves, who knifed Stephen and Jennifer Chapple six times each at their home in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset, in November 2021 after a long-running row over parking, had been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years by a trial judge.

Three appeal judges on Tuesday cut that minimum term to 35 years after concluding 38 years was "excessive".

Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Kerr and Judge Timothy Spencer considered Reeves' challenge at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.

They concluded that Mr Justice Garnham, who oversaw a trial at Bristol Crown Court last June, should have given "more weight" to "mitigating factors".

To kill the couple, Reeves, 36, a former Royal Engineer, used a ceremonial dagger given to him when he left the Army, appeal judges heard.

The Army has been urged by a coroner to stop giving out weapons as retirement gifts after the Afghanistan veteran used the ceremonial dagger to murder his neighbours.

He called the police minutes after the killings to confess.

Reeves denied murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility.

www.forces.net

Ex-soldier who murdered neighbours has minimum jail term cut

Three appeal judges today cut that minimum term to 35 years after concluding 38 years was "excessive".
www.forces.net www.forces.net
 
TacticalTea said:
The UK in general is about to ban knives due to their stabbing problem...

Collective hysteria.
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As long as they leave the Narwhal tusks for the good guys ;)


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www.theguardian.com

Prisoner reveals role in tackling London Bridge attacker with narwhal tusk

Steve Gallant was out on licence when terrorist began stabbing people at criminal justice event
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