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chaos75
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Its 10 wks, plus a week for admin/parade.
P Kaye said:Something that will stick around??? Never. It's a pendulum. First they say "we have to be like the reg force... equivalent training!". Like back in the RESO days. Then they realise everyone is quitting, and they aren't able to fill all the reserve officer positions. So the pendulum swings. Shorter courses, all MODed, like the system for the last couple of years. Now the pendulum is swinging back.
I actually liked the system that has existed for the past few years:
1) we don't need to be as highly trained as the reg-force... we're RESERVISTS... we augment and support the regular force... we should try to be everything it is.
2) under the old system reservists were trained to the same standard as the regular force; they just covered less things. For example, a reserve platoon commander would be trained to the same standard on section attacks at RPC as a reg force pln cmdr would be. But at RPC reservists learn ONLY dismounted stuff, where the regulars spend longer and get everything. I think this is appropriate. Reservists don't have to know everything the regulars do (that's why we have regulars).
The problem with the pendulum phenomemon is that guys going through at different times get vastly different training, and yet still get equivalent qualifications. If I had taken CAP last year, it would have been HALF the length of what I have to do now. So my buddies who did it last year will have HALF the field training I will have, but our qualifications will be the same.
jmackenzie_15 said:Why? Because Reserve Officers are serving overseas, and facing many of the same challenges, tactical scenarios, and OPFOR as the Regs. Do you think that Reg Os need to know how to operate in a "three block war", but Reserve Os don't? To OPFOR group "X" all they see is green. 5.56mm incoming does not discriminate between Regs and Reserves.
So are NCMs...
higgs said:If I have received this info, then most other interested parties have as well by this time. However, for those more out of the loop than I, it appears that yes, reservists are now to take CAP, but no that does not mean all ten weeks (five mods).
From the info passed to me, all five mods of Reg Force CAP are now available to reservists (not only summer serials, but I do not know if only the summer serials are modular), but only the first three mods are required. So, limted availability officers (those with job/family considerations) can still be CAP(R)-equivalent qualified, at Reg F standards, and able to progress to MOC training.
I would be interested to find out if the delta training (RSO quals, instructional technique, etc) from the remaining optional mods could be signed-off at unit/brigade level over time in order to achieve the full CAP qualification.
mdh said:Redeye,
If I'm reading you correctly then, there is no longer any three module (of two weeks each) CAP (R) - it's now five modules, period, to qualify for further MOC training - and that's the only option at this point? In other words if you have limited availability, say only two weeks or four weeks at a time, it would take you much longer to qualify under the current revamped system?
chaos75 said:Will the reserves doing the full 10week CAP be mixed in with the Reg Force pers, or in seperate platoons?