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dapaterson said:One issue she touched on in her article, lack of quota for Army Reserve units, is not a recruiting system issue.
Rather, quotas are now set by looking (nationally) at the strength of units. So the many units that try to keep up appearances and fail to clean the books of those releasing in fact torpedo themselves; holding those who do not parade and participate means the unit will not get to recruit to fill the positions.
Having spent half a decade tracking Army Reserve numbers I regularly saw how many units held dozens of folks who did not parade for months on end - yet they never took the actions required to declare them NES. Lazy unit personnel admin is a huge problem in many Army Reserve units, but it is rarely rectified by their chain of command.
Not in 38 Bde, at least in my units.
The Bde Comd has set strict criteria on those who enrol but for whatever reasons fail to complete DP1 within a reasonable time.
Those that don't measure up are released.