Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

Well some of you know my opinion, if you don't it's along the lines of......

"Woe betide this Nation when the Majority of our defensive force is made up of McDonald's employees and school teachers, I've never had cause to complain about the TA until this Summer, working with them on Op Olympic, I found them to be lazy, Ill disciplined and their fitness is laughable!"

Well to compound this damning assessment, I was reading Soldier magazine in work today and found this.......

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

Sounds great, I'll join up in 2020 when they're too desperate to check my age or give me any training.

Hopefully I'll just get a land rover and a gun.

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

there was some good squaddies in the ta in the old days , i think nowadays the qualitys of them seem to be a lot lower , but then the same can be said for the younger generation in general lol

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

There's a guy I know who's in the TA, I wouldn't arm him with a pea shooter, let alone anything lethal.

He went to Iraq and managed to crash the Land Rover he was driving and broke his leg.

He was and still is a space cadet

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

Not all regulars are that switched on either. One lad I know set himself on fire smoking whilst filling a kero heater. The last TA I worked with I wouldnt trust with a effin spoon let alone a rifle, detachment, section

I am gonna be clicking my heels if I get offered and selected for redundancy lol

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

I should get my mate Brian to post his feelings on the TA!

He pays disablement pay for the TA and has taken the rest of the week off because he's had enough of the idiots... There was much f-ing and blinding when he left today...

Such a happy place my work right now :)

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

geezajob i can do that :rolleyes:

Wow. Whilst the TA and reservists obviously have their place, they cannot, and should not, take the place of the regular Army!

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

Having been to Careless' place of employment take it from me - YOU DO NOT WANT TO WORK THERE.

Re: Are the TA and Reservists ready to replace the regular Army in 2020?
 

I think this is a wide tar covered brush you are using there,

Firstly the image you use the helmet appears to be on sideways but it does not mean he put it on sideways, it may have moved whilst he was running or it could have been knocked, they don't exactly fit snug do they?

I was part of the TA for a while and whilst I would never envisage them taking the place of the full time army, for a bunch of civi's who train less than a 10th of what the regulars do I was pretty impressed with the training and skill of the others who trained with me.

lets not all go mad and tar with the same brush shall we?