30/30 isn't standard in the Oilfield. Use to be 21 and fu. now it is 15/6 or 14/7 that's In Canada But thanks for assuming that one.
I apologize, had no idea you’d be so offended
Lots of industries run 30/30 schedules when working overseas or offshore. Oilfield, crane, mechanics, specialty aviation and the list goes on. They assume responsibility for alot of equipment and their crews lives when they take over
Yup that’s kinda what I meant
Everything you have stated is very easily rectified If one put the effort to sort it out and thought outside of the box.. Instead lots of reasons why not.
It also would mean you’re limited to functionally two weeks of training time. We don’t do 100 percent change overs at once, for obvious reasons. So let’s say it’s a three day change over, then we probably have to assume 1-2 days of arrival admin sorted out. Obviously we’ll need a day to zero personal weapons, probably another day for crew and vehicle weapons. Because it’s the military and that’s just how it works. That’s in the back end again. So we’re left with maybe a two week exercise in Yemen’s of training this team to work together again before we repeat the process. Not idea for a force that’s supposed to be ready to fight.
Some times it’s not just nay saying, it’s explaining why we don’t do things this way.
Personally i think the military should station a full brigade over there. Deal with the consequences of relocating families over there.
Hey we actually agree on that. There’s a first.
But there are options. 6 month deployments suck, year long deployments suck especially if you’re regularly doing the clickty bang bang readiness training the majority of the time you’re there.
Six months isn’t that bad honestly. People are t annoyed about deployments, in the army that is, they’re annoyed about posting cycles and repetitive high readiness training.
Clicking bang bang is not a term I really understand. I’m assuming you mean training in general?
Full benifits for time in country. Easily figured out. If they can't figure that out it's time for a new job.
Well no, it requires a lot of administration to adjust our benefits that are all built on 30 or less and 30 or more. Even foreign service points work like that.
Equipment sign over can be done more efficiently. Like they say theirs always a harder way especially if it's the military way.
RFID scanners with a vehicle inspection, weapons sign over and go. If the outgoing crews didn't fix or report issues deal with it at the time.
I assume there isn't a healing fence over there for broken equipment.
Another option is park your equipment on the fence go home. 30 days later. That has a bit more cost and requires double the equipment. Again workable just costs more bucks.
I’ll touch on this now. It’s not the scanning that takes a long time, it’s pulling out the equipment. Even if you showed me a digital, rfid scanned sheet of all the EIS for the lav im signing for, I will want to physically see it. I don’t care that it’s been scanned for, show me the damned head set and I need to ensure they work. Yeah it’s inefficient but I need to make sure that machine is actually ready for war. Sometimes that’s just the way it has to be.
I’m just going out in a limb here but have you ever been part of a deployment relief in place ?