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But knowing you're going to spend 6 months straight guarding a gate, I doubt the Res will be able to find enough troops who actually WANT to fill a task like that. Viable or not, The Res has the choice whether or not to go, and if they aren't able to do even a modicum of their job (infantry, armour, or whatever), I seriously doubt they will be able to fill the posns. I understand that going over as a formed unit is not viable for Afghanistan, so why not go back to the previous incarnations of individual augmentees with every Pl rotating around D&S duties?Haggis said:Bear, I'm inclined to agree with you. D&S (or Force Protection) is IMO a viable option for PRes troops.
Haggis said:three CBGs cannot reach a common standard training their platoons independently.
Couldn't this be resolved by the presence of a few Reg Inf NCOs (who, to the best of my knowledge are already filling CBG posns) supervising this training and enforcing some kind of national standard - one which is set by the Regs? Couldn't the individual standards cells fill this role as well?
George - excellent point about the "train to need". Not to mention, aren't there g-wagons in operation in Afghanistan? Surely the Dvr crse for that is significantly shorter and easier to run, both locally and in pre-training. If G-wagons are being used for local patrols (and if this is not the case, please correct me), surely the Res could backfill these posns, leaving the Regs free to take the LAV crses.
Just throwing some stuff out there. I just foresee a lot of reservists coming back from a full tour sitting on a gate and never being willing to go anywhere again.