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Post by freerider on May 18, 2010 5:04:07 GMT
I tried to ask this question on ARRSE hoping for a good debate and a little fun, sadly instead it just encouraged idiots with brains the size of gnats bollocks. Hopefully this will turn out to be a little fun and informative. Back in the late seventies redundancy packages were offered to Sergeant's and upwards causing confusion because so many actually applied and took the deal it left regiments short of good senior NCO's. I had left the army back in the early seventies so I missed what happened next?
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Post by soprano54 on May 18, 2010 12:59:49 GMT
I tried to ask this question on ARRSE hoping for a good debate and a little fun, sadly instead it just encouraged idiots with brains the size of gnats bollocks. Hopefully this will turn out to be a little fun and informative. Back in the late seventies redundancy packages were offered to Sergeant's and upwards causing confusion because so many actually applied and took the deal it left regiments short of good senior NCO's. I had left the army back in the early seventies so I missed what happened next? In answer to your first question - being honest! Unfortunatley there are a few that have seen it necessary to lie..........no names no pack drill. In answer to your second all remained quiet until about 92 when Options for Change kicked in and as a consequence redundancy packages were offered and quite a few took the plunge, mainly SNCOs and WOs. Then the amalgamations took place and the rest is history, I know of at least one guy who took redundancy would in no doubt have reached a much higher rank! Hindsight is a wonderful thing. |
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Post by freerider on May 18, 2010 16:14:00 GMT
Did you feel that the temptation to take the redundancies left the army and the RTR's and Cavalry regiments in particular in a situation that some men were made up in rank because of seniority (in the sense of time with the regiment) and experience rather than being made up on merit. I had a cousin who served with the RCT as a Staff Sergeant in the first gulf war and he says it was chaos. I also had a chap who worked as a fitter for the company I was a commercial director at he had been a flight sergeant and was a brilliant fitter but he took redundancy but he said he felt he had no choice. He stated that many of the SNCO's were removed to allow younger lads through, younger but less experienced and knowledgeable. I was not there I had left in late 1972 so I missed all that, but I have heard so many conflicting stories about the redundancies.
Most of the officers that served in the RTR regiment when I was a squaddie where really quite good, you always got one or two who were never really suitable sometimes because some where very young when they arrived and took over leadership roles that they were not quite ready to accept. But I think in the main we had some excellent officers, my OC in particular was one of them.
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