Harris said:Shouldn't the sytem be looking at why is Meaford preceived as being shuch a terrible place to work? Why don't the instructors want to go there?
Harris said:Shouldn't the sytem be looking at why Meaford is a terrible place to work? Why don't the instructors want to go there?
I wouldn't be certain that it is easy for schools running national courses to get staff out of the areas. I have known of certain LF Areas to declare that no external taskings would be filled before all tasks were filled in the Area's TC - even when it came to supporting MOS for which all occupational training is done in a national school.dangerboy said:It is a lot harder to get instructors from one area to instruct in another area, with the exception of Gagetown for national courses.
MCG said:I wouldn't be certain that it is easy for schools running national courses to get staff out of the areas. I have known of certain LF Areas to declare that no external taskings would be filled before all tasks were filled in the Area's TC - even when it came to supporting MOS for which all occupational training is done in a national school.
Haggis said:One solution, in LFCA anyway, is to decentralize Regional Summer Training (RST) back to the brigades to run for thier own soldiers in their own geographical areas rather than shoe-horning everyone into Meaford.
Another solution - which I know is being entetrtained (not entirely successfully) in LFCA - is split taskings. (If you're only available for 2 or 3 weeks and the course is six weeks, split the task between two instructors.)
There are many ways to skin a cat. We just have to get the cat out of Meaford.
How about some comments from those in LFAA, SQFT and LFWA. Do similar challenges exist and how were they overcome?
recceguy said:We also provide, regularly, enough instructors for our own candidates. If not more. If the other Units don't send enough instructors, at least let us instruct our own people instead of penalizing us for others failings.
Harris said:Shouldn't the sytem be looking at why is Meaford preceived as being such a terrible place to work? Why don't the instructors want to go there?
Thucydides said:...and a fully manned and equipped kitchen that can't match the performance of 6 cooks and a kitchen trailer...
Dkeh said:Excellent point. I forgot about that. In laymans terms, the food sucks, hard. Every place I have ever been has had better food than Meaford. I understand that cooking for 1000+ is by no means an easy task, but the food in Wainwright, Borden, Trenton, etc is better by leaps and bounds.
NFLD Sapper said:Guess you haven't been to gagetown then........food has gone down hill considerably since the closure of both the Officers and SNCO's eating mess.....
PuckChaser said:Wasn't Meaford bad, but I'll agree it was subpar when I was there on predeployment training. Couple that with having to shave on weekends to go eat at the mess... I just ate out a lot.
HollywoodCowboy said:What is the solution?
Does the military restructure the training so reg and res recruits train together like the USMC does?
Could that be a possible cost saving measure as well?
Infanteer said:RSS postings are being filled again, so this should help (we know what they are doing every summer).
Jim Seggie said:So when are you coming to Winnipeg...... >
Infanteer said:What are you talking about - the only guys that go to Winnipeg are our cast-off loggie types! >