Gunner
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
- 11
- Points
- 430
Mmmm, it seems this was the overriding impetus behind the CRIC deployments, even more so that the "formed reserve subunit" stuff. Do you think that reserve leaders can be adequately developed if they were individual augmentees? Is there any precedent for this? I'm aware of individual augmentees at the pte/cpl level, which by all accounts worked reasonably well in the past.
Britney, I would argue that the Reserves will always have difficulty providing Sr Offrs/Sr NCOs/WOs that have the level of experience required to fill key jobs for a deployment. Experience comes with time, the Reserves don't get enough of it. A bit of a catch 22 situation don't you think?
I don't know about the non-LFWA CRICs/CRC but the two coys we put out the door were not 100% Reserve. On Roto 11, the CSM and CQ were from 1 PPCLI and they provided very good "backbone" for the Coy. It places alot of responsibility on them and can cause trouble in terms of where their loyalites lie. I believe the CSM on Roto 12 was an ex-Reg but the CQ and Tpt NCO were from 2 PPCLI.