This was over 10 years ago but I swear I remember talking to a British Army Reserve major that was attached to my reserve unit for training one year and he said something along the lines of there being fewer benefits and higher monthly drill pay but once you did an initial two years on drilling status you could basically take yourself on and off drilling status. In their IRR equivalent I guess. I don’t remember there being a limit on how long you could be off drilling status. I could of course be remembering the conversation entirely wrong. I think something like that would help with retention. Retention of people you might want to keep but suddenly have to pick between staying in and taking that new position at work that’s going to mean they might not have the time for drill once a month for all that their employer is legally obligated to allow them time off to go. I know my last two years in working two weekends a month at the plant I was losing money on being in the army when drill overlapped with work. Basically an entire work week. Over 1,000 dollars. Some flexibility in allowing soldiers to have alternate drill dates might also help with that. Work excused me but they didn’t pay me and that was certainly a factor in not re enlisting. Much to the dismay of my unit that was pushing for a waiver to get me my stripes early just a couple of years earlier as one of the few soldiers that never missed drill, was always qualified with my weapon and prior to injuring my ankle as I was coming up on the end of my contract routinely passed the pt test.
The US does not do drill well at all for NG and the reserves. The 19th Special Forces Group m(A) has some of the highest manning levels consistently and rich cross-germination with civilian skill sets.
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This was over 10 years ago but I swear I remember talking to a British Army Reserve major that was attached to my reserve unit for training one year and he said something along the lines of there being fewer benefits and higher monthly drill pay but once you did an initial two years on drilling status you could basically take yourself on and off drilling status. In their IRR equivalent I guess. I don’t remember there being a limit on how long you could be off drilling status. I could of course be remembering the conversation entirely wrong. I think something like that would help with retention. Retention of people you might want to keep but suddenly have to pick between staying in and taking that new position at work that’s going to mean they might not have the time for drill once a month for all that their employer is legally obligated to allow them time off to go. I know my last two years in working two weekends a month at the plant I was losing money on being in the army when drill overlapped with work. Basically an entire work week. Over 1,000 dollars. Some flexibility in allowing soldiers to have alternate drill dates might also help with that. Work excused me but they didn’t pay me and that was certainly a factor in not re enlisting. Much to the dismay of my unit that was pushing for a waiver to get me my stripes early just a couple of years earlier as one of the few soldiers that never missed drill, was always qualified with my weapon and prior to injuring my ankle as I was coming up on the end of my contract routinely passed the pt test.
The US does not do drill well at all for NG and the reserves. The 19th Special Forces Group m(A) has some of the highest manning levels consistently and rich cross-germination with civilian skill sets.
Over 1,000 dollars towards the end. Nearly 1,000 the last couple years.
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