Re: Infantry Phase Trg vs basic Infantry Training

[edward@IslandNet.com]

Ian:
Phase training is designed to train Regular ForcKeep in mind that Phase training as delivered to the reseve force (RESO) is designed to cater to 
the reservist who is a college or university undergraduate and who therefore has May to Aug off school.
There are, every year, those reservists who are not students as above, but who nonetheless have time avail
to spend 10 weeks (13 weeks for ph 1 and 2) in sunny gagetown or elsewhere.  
To be blunt, phase training is not really designed for those reservists with full time jobs.  Other mechanisms such
as two week block training exist to train reservists who may only devote their holidays to learning the job.
Cheers Ted Underhill
> Michael (comments wanted from all) from Ian Edwards:
> 
> If each Phase is 10 weeks (therefore about 70 days) how the heck is
> anyone except a post secondary student or school teacher expected to
> find time to take a phase? Will even the various levels of government
> allow civil servants that much time off, and if so how can their job be
> performed in their absence?
> 
> I also understand, from a discussion I had last night with a PRes
> CWO, that QL7 is 90 days in length (if he is "out" a little in is
> calculation - so what?) and that because of this barrier it has become
> virtually impossible to make anyone a MWO coming up purely from the PRes
> side of things. Therefore it has become (necessary?) to parachute in
> former Reg Force Sr NCOs as potential MWOs and CWOs, to the detriment of
> the unit(s) concerned.
> 
> Not expecting you to be an apologist for the "system" just asking for
> comments, such as how practical would it be to break down phases and
> higher QL levels into two or more parts so one could have a chance to
> take them over a period of time. Understand, also,that QL7 is a Reg
> Force course only, and that it's hard enough just to get a slot for a
> PRes in lieu of Reg Forces.
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