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Isn't it a good way to undermine the esprit de corps as well as professionalism in the CF?
The CF are the profressional and should be self-sufficient in the training. I understand though that the pilots can be trained on CAE and Bombardier simulator, thus needing CAE and Bombardier civvy personnel. But, let's not forget that this training is very specialized. So specialized that they train other NATO members as well. So, overall, I think this is quite different in that the weapons training for LAV or this kind of weapons systems aren't that specialized that we need a unique and dedicated civvy personnel.
That said, it's utterly unproductive, expensive and completely out of mind to release military personnel that we NEED in order to train others. It's the organization of it that's faulty here, we don't have to search very far. This view that all personnel should be deployable is looking backwards and stucking the head in the sand, but that's what bureaucrats do? They see numbers and rules, without exception. The guy is not deployable, but we don't have enough personnel, let's scrap the investment we did and recruit more.
And if the government want to save bucks, don't pay them two pensions in the first place rather than cutting in procurement programs. Furthermore, it has two effects that I can see: first, it furthers the occupational frame of mind the military personnel has grown in the last 25 years, and second, it undermines credibility and professionalism that the CF can do the training themselves. Eh, after all, what a private would think being on LAV gunnery training and taught by a civvy when the specialists are supposed to be the CF? ??? You'd answer that that's the same guy anyway with different shirt. But in my mind, a guy in uniform isn't a guy in civvy shirt. I let you continue the idea.
The CF are the profressional and should be self-sufficient in the training. I understand though that the pilots can be trained on CAE and Bombardier simulator, thus needing CAE and Bombardier civvy personnel. But, let's not forget that this training is very specialized. So specialized that they train other NATO members as well. So, overall, I think this is quite different in that the weapons training for LAV or this kind of weapons systems aren't that specialized that we need a unique and dedicated civvy personnel.
That said, it's utterly unproductive, expensive and completely out of mind to release military personnel that we NEED in order to train others. It's the organization of it that's faulty here, we don't have to search very far. This view that all personnel should be deployable is looking backwards and stucking the head in the sand, but that's what bureaucrats do? They see numbers and rules, without exception. The guy is not deployable, but we don't have enough personnel, let's scrap the investment we did and recruit more.
And if the government want to save bucks, don't pay them two pensions in the first place rather than cutting in procurement programs. Furthermore, it has two effects that I can see: first, it furthers the occupational frame of mind the military personnel has grown in the last 25 years, and second, it undermines credibility and professionalism that the CF can do the training themselves. Eh, after all, what a private would think being on LAV gunnery training and taught by a civvy when the specialists are supposed to be the CF? ??? You'd answer that that's the same guy anyway with different shirt. But in my mind, a guy in uniform isn't a guy in civvy shirt. I let you continue the idea.