daftandbarmy
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Yeah possibly, I had good and bad parade nights. I think I probably had rosier views of my earlier times and less rosy the longer I saw it. Typical of most things I’d imagine. That said I’m not totally sure on when and how long your involvement was so I can’t fully comment. I will say that, in general, administrative requirements have increased.
My recollection was that well planned training nights were regularly hijacked by last minute 'dicking around' by various not-very-important-to-anyone-but-the-CO fastballs from Bn HQ, which meant that at least one or two well prepared SNCO or Officer's lesson were kicked to the curb. And you couldn't make up the lost training time easily.
Do that enough times and people tend to get jaded, and I don't blame them.