paracowboy said:
You wanted to be officers, this how they're made. Ya'll are whining like pregnant women.
And then here's the old attitude. "You're all just wining. suck it up". So pointing out deficiencies in the system is whining and I should just suck it up? Sure, I'll remember that for later on in my career :
Alright, fine, let's do some 'soldier first' stuff during the school year at RMC, but why not realistic? During our range weekend, we do it a division at a time. that's 3-4 squadrons of ~100 people each. That gives each person a chance to shoot old brownings and C7s once. We do that once per school year. We don't even have a shooting or biathlon team anymore(obviously not very good military sports...).
There's this general feeling in the the senior ranks here at RMC and from what I've seen on this board, everywhere in the CF, that if you're an OCdt, you don't know shit, and can't criticize anything. Well guess what, we're the ones 'on the ground' here at the college, living the dream.
I went to Alert for an OJE this summer, and had a lot of fun, met a lot of great people, from all different trades, from the van doo para General Duty kitchen staff to the CELE CO. You know what all the NCMs told me when we got to talking about RMC and advice for the future? look after and listen to your troops, from your privates to your senior cpls to your sgts (WO is taken as a given).
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.
Then again, what do I know? I'm just a whiny Ocdt...