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Subject: Attitude of active service personel towards reserves
Thomas    5/14/2003 3:07:14 AM
The condecending attitude of full-time professionals toward reserve, home guard and other volunteer seems to a general problem.
What are we going to do?
 
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TheGreyBeard    RE:Attitude of active service personel towards reserves   5/4/2004 2:41:32 PM
Sorry about that last post, it was a bit unprofessional. I was trying to lighten the mood. (And UAs are a problem, unless a war is going on.) I'd have to say, after serving in the Reserve, that Active units talk a lot of trash to Reserve units, and we do the same back (Call me when you need a job, but call me at home, my hobby is your job, etc.) As long as our units can accomplish missions equivalent to the Active, we generate respect. Once we don't, we lose it. It's that simple (look at 23rd, 24th, 25th, Marine Regiments, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, ANGLICO companies, 4th Force Recon, etc.)
 
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macawman    RE:Attitude of active service personel towards reserves   5/18/2004 4:30:57 PM
>>>It's that simple (look at 23rd, 24th, 25th, Marine Regiments, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, ANGLICO companies, 4th Force Recon, etc.<<< GreyBeard: The units you mentioned have a much more 'real world' training focus than the typical NG or Army Reserve units. Those Marine units have hard nosed Active Duty Marine NCOs running their training programs. I have observed, as a former Army WO AG/Reserve trainer, their strict discipline and training rigor first hand and the Army Reserve and NG training DOES NOT COMPARE by a long shot. Reason: in the Army Reserve and NG the unit trainers are usually hired from within their own units that they are training. The AG/Reserve trainers are not held responsible for Army's standard of training readiness, the unit's commander has overall responsibility. The Commander take the hit if the unit fails a readiness inspection not the AG/Reserve trainers. This is not the case with Marine Reserve trainers. With Marine Corps Reserve training those Marine Reservists belong to the Corps and must live up to Corps standards and ethos. Semper Fi!
 
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