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Just wanted to start a general discussion on how the CF school system could be improved [as in courses beiung run through training centres like the Infantry School, CFSCE, CFSEME, St. Jean ect.]
I joined as a sig op and did one summer at CFSCE before crossing over to the dark side and spending this summer at the infantry school doing CAP. Having also talked with people who did their EME and LOG training in Borden I realised that all three schools had the same defects, namely:
1. C**k for no legitimate reason, while letting deserved faults go unnoticed.
2. Little serviceable equipment.
3. Teaching a "standard" that is only used at the _____ school, making you have to re-learn everything when you are posted to a unit.
4. Total lack of communication between individual instructors, and with higher ups.
5. Teaching us how to beat them damn'd commies should they try to invade West Berlin.
6. Lack of motivation from force posted instructors.
I understand that a lot of these problems are just a part of the way the army has always been and always will be, and that running a relevant course is extremely difficult. That being said does anyone have any ideas for improving the system? Here's one.
Prior to unification training was run by units in the combat arms. SO your BMQ, SQ and Basic Infantry were all run through your regimental training centre. This at least reduced the problems of the battalion not giving you enough equipment and learning a standard different from your unit's. I also suspect that the instructors were of higher quality, because as a general rule the best instructors are the ones temporarily posted from a battalion. The obvious problems are that this system still does not cover the reserves or support trades.
However I think that if the regular force was given a tasking to training as part of their off tour duties then you would always have at least one coy of each trade that could run courses under a training platoon supplemented with reservist instructors. There are a lot of problems with this system, but does anyone think it would work better than the present system.
I joined as a sig op and did one summer at CFSCE before crossing over to the dark side and spending this summer at the infantry school doing CAP. Having also talked with people who did their EME and LOG training in Borden I realised that all three schools had the same defects, namely:
1. C**k for no legitimate reason, while letting deserved faults go unnoticed.
2. Little serviceable equipment.
3. Teaching a "standard" that is only used at the _____ school, making you have to re-learn everything when you are posted to a unit.
4. Total lack of communication between individual instructors, and with higher ups.
5. Teaching us how to beat them damn'd commies should they try to invade West Berlin.
6. Lack of motivation from force posted instructors.
I understand that a lot of these problems are just a part of the way the army has always been and always will be, and that running a relevant course is extremely difficult. That being said does anyone have any ideas for improving the system? Here's one.
Prior to unification training was run by units in the combat arms. SO your BMQ, SQ and Basic Infantry were all run through your regimental training centre. This at least reduced the problems of the battalion not giving you enough equipment and learning a standard different from your unit's. I also suspect that the instructors were of higher quality, because as a general rule the best instructors are the ones temporarily posted from a battalion. The obvious problems are that this system still does not cover the reserves or support trades.
However I think that if the regular force was given a tasking to training as part of their off tour duties then you would always have at least one coy of each trade that could run courses under a training platoon supplemented with reservist instructors. There are a lot of problems with this system, but does anyone think it would work better than the present system.