Shades said:I dunno if your questions have been answered yet I just jumped to the end of the question to let you guys know what happened with us. In May we started unit pre training for the tour. At the end of May 41 Brigade sent us to wainwright and let us sit there. 1PPCLI didn't know about that it wasn't their idea at least. At the end of Aug we showed up at their lines and did a quick dag and went on the BTE with them. That was 7 weeks and now on Nov 1st we are doing mission specific training. So in no way should it be a 6 month workup. And if your unit plays things right they won't let you rot away in wainwright. They will get you courses in the time between until you do workup with the regs.
cbt arms sub tech said:Thanks for your help, appreciate your time & effort, hope all is well...So many questions to ask, sometimes wish LFWA had a forum such as this, where real answer were given.
cbt arms sub tech said:For TF01-06, some reservists from LFWA are training for a February deployment, plus Pre-deployment rumors for TF04-07 starts in Sept, rumor is its a 18 month possible work opportunity....
Please do the following for your next posts:Shades said:I'll tell you it was a sad day when we moved to the NSE from 1VP they treated us well and cut the bullshit out where it shouldn't be but in the res world people are so high strung when they see the regs and try to impress them to much creating undue jobs and such. 1VP treated us very well and their training and leadership is good. I can only hope that NSE will do the same for us and that we have a good job overseas but none the less always soak in the knowledge and apply it. Leave the troublesome troops back at the unit and take the ones worthy of the job. I see some people are talking about 6 month workup......hahaha thats not a workup thats reserve bullshit with alot of siting around when they could run applicable courses to get their guys ready. We started in May their was no reason for it sure we did ranges and stuff before we showed up got some of the paperwork out of the way but then we rotted away in wainwright for 4 months doing nothing some were swings for courses and such but then again we were told it was a 6 month workup aswell.
armyvern said:Please do the following for your next posts:
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It's appreciated on this site. Thanks.
Shades said:Tomorrow I get mission specific needles so far I am sitting at 8 before them. And then sometime either DEC or Jan start my little mood swing pills lol. As per foreign weapons I think there may be a quick familiarization.
KevinB said:Knowing the CF -- internet banking will be th ebest bet.
30min phone cards (/week the time accumulating) where provided for Athena.
For some reason I dont think CO 1VP will allow the D&S to remain with the NSE for long -- it did not work for Roto II Athena and I cannot see it working on TF1-06.
Unlike some tours Afghan has no "mission specific needles" - but reservists will not likley have the needle battery that the regs get going thru Cornwallis (well St. Jean now).
HEP A/B, Tet/Dip, YF, Typ, Meng, MMR and Polio - are blanket immunizations -- then the Mefloquine for Malria is the only area specific med that is given (or Malarone or the other Dsomethign anti-biotic for those who dont like Manic Monday's )