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My god... I have witnessed the horrors of a major logistical F*cKuP on my first BMQ weekend in the reserves! Welcome to the Reserves out Plt 2i/c sayz... :
So, originally we were told, entire weekend, 1 day SHARP, rest is BMQ type stuff.. Cool...
Thursday before the weekend we were going (Jan 21-23). We're told no, it's just 1 day of SHARP and we go home! Cool...
WE GET THERE... Saturday morning at about 8am EST. Cool... HEAD torn OFF by pissed off MBombadier (Arty MCpl for those who don't know)+ 2Lt who were running the course that we apparently "didn't show up for" on Friday like we were suppose to... Our unit somehow fudged the training roster and got it all backwards completely... They ask who the F*cK in our pathetic plt knows what the hell is going on... I put my hand up, answer, "Well MBombadier, we were told to report here today for SHARP training". MBomb answers, "SHARP training? WTF, there is no SHARP training! This is BMQ!"....... Us----->>>> :crybaby: ??? Them ------>>>> :evil: > :skull:
.....
They eventually understood that our unit's command FUBAR'd things up real fine and that we were misinformed.... Right after that some fruitcake from our unit answers that he DOESN'T KNOW what DOUBLE TIME is.... So, we run, 2X across the entire armoury. Not bad, wakes you up in the morning when you thought you were doing easy SHARP training and in civvies!!!...
Eat breakfast (Oh god, it made up for everything....)
Got 9 mins for about 30 guys to go to the bathroom (I had to do #2.... :-[ )
Told we will continue with BMQ as planned originally and start our training (basic drill, classes on Ethics+Firedrill/orders etc etc etc).
Was great and fun+fantastic watching some people get yelled at while F*cking drill up. Hillarious actually, even I got yelled at once, loved it.
Lunch (My god again X2.... Great, can't complain about the food one bit, lovin' THAT too... )
Day goes on, we finish at 4-4:15PMish, told we'll load on bus go back to homebase (Linc+Wink regiment) because none of us brought any kit to stay overnight. Also told to report back for training in the morning. Cool.... Problem: Giant winter storm, takes us 2.5hrs to get back when it normally takes 40mins... Was F'ckn hillarious watching people smash thier cars up on the QEW, yeah, so hillarious we thought we were going to have to be scrapped off the pavement alongside some of the smashed cars... :
Report back in the morning to Linc+Wink armoury at 6:40AM EST :boring: . 3/4 Pltn shows up, bus suppose to arrive at 7AM... 7:15... 7:30..... A guy leaves... 8.... 8:45.. Everyone else leaves but 3 of us who are trying to contact our BMQ course guys, have no contact info or command... 9:30... WE leave....
So in other words we missed a WHOLE day+half of BMQ...
???
:-\
Emailed+called the crap out of our Pltn Sgt 2i/c... Emails us back WENSDAY (sp?) apologizes for big messup... TOLD now that must re-attend catch up class+course material THIS weekend or else we are dropped off the course..... :rage: :rage: :rage:
So... Folks, that saying of "SUCK IT UP AND SOLDIER ON!".... Applies... It has to, or else you will fail to see the logic of the military when things f*ckup.... I have no problem with making up the training becuase I don't have to work on weekends... This just serves to show you how and why the retention of the reserves is so bad at times. I bet we'll loose about 3-5 guys over this incident.... Not because they won't suck it up either, because they have other obligations like fulltime jobs etc etc, hence why we're Reserves...
What you folks think about that mess eh? Bet some of you new folks are saying, "Shit, hope they don't fuck us in the ass like that!".... : GOOD LUCK FNG's!!!
Hopefully this soap-opera of my beginning in the reserves comes to an end with a good, straight hardcore weekend of BMQ...
:warstory:
Pte (R) Joe out...
So, originally we were told, entire weekend, 1 day SHARP, rest is BMQ type stuff.. Cool...
Thursday before the weekend we were going (Jan 21-23). We're told no, it's just 1 day of SHARP and we go home! Cool...
WE GET THERE... Saturday morning at about 8am EST. Cool... HEAD torn OFF by pissed off MBombadier (Arty MCpl for those who don't know)+ 2Lt who were running the course that we apparently "didn't show up for" on Friday like we were suppose to... Our unit somehow fudged the training roster and got it all backwards completely... They ask who the F*cK in our pathetic plt knows what the hell is going on... I put my hand up, answer, "Well MBombadier, we were told to report here today for SHARP training". MBomb answers, "SHARP training? WTF, there is no SHARP training! This is BMQ!"....... Us----->>>> :crybaby: ??? Them ------>>>> :evil: > :skull:
.....
They eventually understood that our unit's command FUBAR'd things up real fine and that we were misinformed.... Right after that some fruitcake from our unit answers that he DOESN'T KNOW what DOUBLE TIME is.... So, we run, 2X across the entire armoury. Not bad, wakes you up in the morning when you thought you were doing easy SHARP training and in civvies!!!...
Eat breakfast (Oh god, it made up for everything....)
Got 9 mins for about 30 guys to go to the bathroom (I had to do #2.... :-[ )
Told we will continue with BMQ as planned originally and start our training (basic drill, classes on Ethics+Firedrill/orders etc etc etc).
Was great and fun+fantastic watching some people get yelled at while F*cking drill up. Hillarious actually, even I got yelled at once, loved it.
Lunch (My god again X2.... Great, can't complain about the food one bit, lovin' THAT too... )
Day goes on, we finish at 4-4:15PMish, told we'll load on bus go back to homebase (Linc+Wink regiment) because none of us brought any kit to stay overnight. Also told to report back for training in the morning. Cool.... Problem: Giant winter storm, takes us 2.5hrs to get back when it normally takes 40mins... Was F'ckn hillarious watching people smash thier cars up on the QEW, yeah, so hillarious we thought we were going to have to be scrapped off the pavement alongside some of the smashed cars... :
Report back in the morning to Linc+Wink armoury at 6:40AM EST :boring: . 3/4 Pltn shows up, bus suppose to arrive at 7AM... 7:15... 7:30..... A guy leaves... 8.... 8:45.. Everyone else leaves but 3 of us who are trying to contact our BMQ course guys, have no contact info or command... 9:30... WE leave....
So in other words we missed a WHOLE day+half of BMQ...
???
:-\
Emailed+called the crap out of our Pltn Sgt 2i/c... Emails us back WENSDAY (sp?) apologizes for big messup... TOLD now that must re-attend catch up class+course material THIS weekend or else we are dropped off the course..... :rage: :rage: :rage:
So... Folks, that saying of "SUCK IT UP AND SOLDIER ON!".... Applies... It has to, or else you will fail to see the logic of the military when things f*ckup.... I have no problem with making up the training becuase I don't have to work on weekends... This just serves to show you how and why the retention of the reserves is so bad at times. I bet we'll loose about 3-5 guys over this incident.... Not because they won't suck it up either, because they have other obligations like fulltime jobs etc etc, hence why we're Reserves...
What you folks think about that mess eh? Bet some of you new folks are saying, "Shit, hope they don't fuck us in the ass like that!".... : GOOD LUCK FNG's!!!
Hopefully this soap-opera of my beginning in the reserves comes to an end with a good, straight hardcore weekend of BMQ...
:warstory:
Pte (R) Joe out...