Canadian retireds Re-Enlist now ....

[Wayne McGee]

FN C1 A1 tucked cassually under my arm, mess tins rattling from my 54 Pattern Web, yeah I can see it now! Glorious sight as I come hobbling into the classroom in a stinky cloud of cigarette smoke and a hint of Ben Gay.
Boy I'll sure teach them a thing or two;
"Front Rank Kneeling-Rear Rank Standing!",
"On The Whisle Blast: With Me Boys, Over The Top!"

Seriously though, this has been coming for a long time and the fact that the Forces has come to the conclusion that there is a short-fall of qualified NCO's is nothing short of criminal.
The writing has been on the wall for a generation now, offering the Sun and the Moon to the best and brightest from the Reserve Army has stripped them of their future NCO gene pool and to have those individuals arrive at the Meaford or Wainwright Battle Schools and be treated as second-class citizens because of their Militia roots.
It's not going to get better soon. This Train Wreck became un-avoidable in the mid-90's with that Boner called the"Forces Reduction Plan." From there the die was cast, rob Peter to pay Paul, take on every task placed on the table, stretch yourself to the breaking point , spend Millions to reduce your numbers with early retirement while asking fewer and fewer soldiers to take on even more tasks.......

Ooooh..... that almost qualified as a rant. I'll put the pin back in the grenade.... for now.

Cheers