Kincanucks:
While I normally find your posts on recruiting to be informative and intelligent, I find this response to be anything but. This MCpl, who is instructing the troops that you process, brought up a relevant and significant issue in an articulate and straight-forward way, and provided examples. Your response?
kincanucks said:
Now for you to insinuate that the CF recruiting system would purposely process and enrolled applicants, whether they be Reg or Res, who may present a danger to themselves and to others is asinine.
Did he insinuate that CFRC was pushing through troops who they knew to be a danger? No, I don't think he did. He did provide an example of a dangerous situation...
MCpl Wesite said:
last thing I need is another ADD on a live fire range.
but that was hardly insinuating that CFRC pushed a guy through they knew to be a danger on a range.
and this...
kincanucks said:
Also to insinuate that we in recruiting are only concerned with numbers and wasting money and time is ignorant and asinine.
He didn't say numbers and dollars were the only concern. He simply expressed the opinion that while quantity of troops has gone up, the quality has gone down, in his HO. I agree with him. Why recruit people who so obviously do not possess the mind set to soldier? If he (and I) can see it after a week of BMQ, what does that say about the 'vetting' proces at CFRC? If it's the evaluation system, fix it, if it's priorities (numbers vs. quality), stop pushing recruits through who can't hack it(his 'waste of money' argument).
kincanucks said:
While I can't determine your motive for posting the rhetoric...
His motive? Well, knowing this particular MCpl as well as I do, I suspect that he was motivated by his desire to take quality recruits and turn them into quality soldiers. Give him the raw materials (suitable recruits) and he'll produce well trained Pte soldiers. If you give him people not CAPABLE of soldiering well, or without the will to soldier, what do you think will be the result? Incompetant, and possibly unsafe soldiers.
kincanucks said:
I would suggest that if you have a legitimate complaint about the recruiting system you could pass up your chain of command.
So, no one here can bring up something that concerns them? This would be a pretty lonely place if troops weren't allowed to b*itch. It's our God-given right you know.
Could you perhaps formulate an articulate, well-thought out response to his concern? The BMQ/SQ MCpl is critical to the recruiting process, and to dismiss his concerns as 'assinine' is really quite shallow. Give him the respect he deserves.
I await your mature thoughts on this important recruiting issue. I suspect that due to your expertise, you have knowlege and insight into this problem.