- Reaction score
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captloadie said:Vern,
In all the time you've written PERs, have you never had one returned because there were actual mistakes on it? Not small grammar things, but things like the dots filled wrong, or incorrect info (SN, rank, unit)? If so, this answers the question why it takes so long to get them back to you. There is usually only one poor sole responsible for the crappy job of checking every stinking PER in a unit to make sure they don't get sent to Ottawa with incorrect info so that the troops aren't getting screwed by the supervisor who doesn't pay attention to detail.
And believe me, it sucks when a PER comes all the way back from being signed by a Formation commander, and the first thing a member says when being debriefed is "My name has two Ls in it, not one."
Oh yes.
BUT, sorry all those typos and grammatical errors are fixed before* it leaves the Unit to go to Branch, Base for signatures.
So, that does NOT answer the question as to why - 2.5 months later they are STILL outside of our Unit with us bustling about screaming "we need these back to get the member's signature!! They are due in Ottawa signed in 2 days!" Perhaps, if they didn't take 2 months to do boards and sign them at higher ... there wouldn't be an issue.
*Before: as in "I" was the pers responsible to review/correct ours at the Coy level prior to their movement out to Branch and Base ... and they were good to go and sent higher months before we got them back from higher with the CoC signatures on them so that we could actually debrief our troops, have them sign and then get them to Ottawa.
Oh, and as a side-note: 99.9% of the time when the member does find a typo in it when he goes to sign it ... a review of the original and previous draft held until the final comes back ... shows that the error in grammar or typing was made outside of the Unit by someone else fiddling with it higher in the CoC - not the supervisor, so let's put that myth to rest right now.