dapaterson said:Courses such as BMQ are not paid for by the brigade - unless LFDTS has canned the course, it should still operate, even in the CBG main body is stood down.
Not recruit courses. The example I've got in mind is a Basic Mountain Ops that was going to be run within Brigade, and which has, from what we were told, been canned. These days it's already obscenely rare (at least within 33CBG) to see a course run that isn't explicitly a career course, with the odd spot on a driver wheel thrown out to us just to keep the RQMS viable. Essentially, anything that in times past would have been called a QL4 just doesn't happen anymore.
I don't understand how the budgeting and fin codes for such courses work, but the Class A stand down was cited as the reason for this getting shut down. I acknowledge that ancillary skillsets are pretty much a luxury these days, but the reality remains that we have a core of senior MCpls and Cpls who have nothing but career courses under their belt- and good luck getting course loaded on anything once you've got a leaf.
It's difficult to explain the financial necessity of these cuts to my troops when there are so many readily apparent instances of excesses in spending across the board. I know Class Bs have already taken a big hit, but how far do they think the PRes can stretch? How are we supposed to force generate for OP Cadence without the cash to train? How are we supposed to retain troops and expect maximum attendance when we can't hold up our end of the bargain and provide a reasonable amount of work and training in line with what they were told they could expect when they recruited? How are basic skillsets to be maintained and expanded without class A days in which to train?