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cdnaviator said:NO....i've met enough ex-whatevers who still cant figure out that they are in the MILITARY !!
You are talking like you know a LOT about RMC. Have you ever stepped foot there?
cdnaviator said:NO....i've met enough ex-whatevers who still cant figure out that they are in the MILITARY !!
DVessey said:Let's take a hypothetical example here(don't want to use specific examples just in case big brother is watching): What would any of you say if a battalion were formed up for parade practice at about 5:50, and then the RSM had a O-group with the platoon WOs for about 20 minutes, all while rest of the battalion is left standing in the parade square? Needless to say, there's other work that the troops could be working on.
SupersonicMax said:You are talking like you know a LOT about RMC. Have you ever stepped foot there?
Japexican said:On the other hand, those that aren't at RMC don't see the problems with the army training at the college. Some of the stuff we do is stupid and useless, but not because it is army training, but because we lack the rescources, or the staff to effectively do the training. Many at the college have pretty strong fellings about what goes on at the college (former NCM's in Otter Sqn included). Nobody likes it when our time gets wasted, and unfortunatly this happens at RMC a lot. The ruck marches are a good example. I don't think that rucksack marches are useless, in fact I thought it was a good idea when I first heard about it. However, a large portion of the college (we gave it away after BOTC) can't get rucksacks. The college is working on that, but in the mean time the current routine is a waste of time. Maybe they should turn it into a run, but right now marching slow circles around the college is a waste of time. I don't want to get rid of the army training, I just want it to be effective. The mistake that a lot of guys at RMC is that they look at some of the inneffective army training that we recieve and they say "Army stuff is stupid. Let's get rid of it since I won't need it." Instead of talking about ditching the army training, we should be talking about improving it.
SupersonicMax said:Have you ever been a Staff/Cadet there?
cdnaviator said:Thankfully no. Never had the desire to be. University was never my thing.....at least not back then.
SupersonicMax said:Then how can you judge on the things they make us do at RMC?
big bad john said:I have trained Officers.
big bad john said:We are tryin g to bestow our collective "wisdom" here.
SupersonicMax said:From what I've seen, training officers on basic training / phase training are different than officers at RMC (their role seems different). But anyways, my point is that military stuff that we are given are pretty much useless at RMC. I wrote a memo in my 3rd year to have lectures on the CF administration system (that would be usefull for a CF officer wouldn't it?) instead of lectures on how to write a memo for the 100th time. The answer came back that it would be looked at. At the end of my 4th year : still memo lectures...
Max
HitorMiss said:Remember all this is in Afghanistan in the middle of bad guy country and if he could it all without a single complaint I fail to see how the rest of you can whine about it. Remember you chose to go to RMC, you knew it was more then just an academic institution. If you can't hack it quit but stop crying foul.