Seems to me, we should dump all of this touchy-feeley MHR stuff and get back to man management. When the unit goes on tour, it ALL goes on tour. External orgs can fill the holes.
We should stand up a reserve unit every year for a two year active force stint. Give it a tour from the 16 month point on. Start with a Newfie bn, then NB, then Quebec, then Ont, etc, if a unit can't fill the slot, they loose it. All recruiting in their area goes to fill that Regt. Wanna be a widget tech? Ya gotta do two years in the 4th bn of the Foreskin Fusileers first. I believe Prof Marc Milner at UNB thought of this ten years ago. It would reinforce the unit's position in the community. It would increase recruiting. It would cycle through a pool of trained soldiers back to theitr res units.
In the meantime, if we lose ONE soldier releasing from the Reg F because he was dropped from a tour with his bn ONLY because they were mandated to take a reservist - well, that is one too many. He was expensively trained, and we cannot replace him.
Tom
We should stand up a reserve unit every year for a two year active force stint. Give it a tour from the 16 month point on. Start with a Newfie bn, then NB, then Quebec, then Ont, etc, if a unit can't fill the slot, they loose it. All recruiting in their area goes to fill that Regt. Wanna be a widget tech? Ya gotta do two years in the 4th bn of the Foreskin Fusileers first. I believe Prof Marc Milner at UNB thought of this ten years ago. It would reinforce the unit's position in the community. It would increase recruiting. It would cycle through a pool of trained soldiers back to theitr res units.
In the meantime, if we lose ONE soldier releasing from the Reg F because he was dropped from a tour with his bn ONLY because they were mandated to take a reservist - well, that is one too many. He was expensively trained, and we cannot replace him.
Tom