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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Agreed. The two days a month is not going to be as good as full time when it comes to military skills.
Saying that, there are some things NG and reserve units bring to the plate that is an advantage in some situations. Many reserve/guard units are older so in UW they are more mature and make better decisions. When dealing with civilians the AD guys may not be very good at it. Why, because they have spent most or all of their adult life in the military and civilians are a different culture they are not used to dealing with. When they tell a soldier they need to do something the soldier does it immediately. When they tell a civilian they need to do something they may get an argument, questions or even a good old fuck off. Not something they are used to or always deal with well.
Add to that the conventional military discourages lateral thinking in their culture ie. black or white/friend or enemy yet in real world there is a lot of gray areas as well a neutral group of people.
The key, like everything is to realize the strengths and weakness of each group and exploit and use their strengths to the situation.
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I would agree……
I'm a part-timer leading part-timers….sometimes it's like herding cats in uniform.
Sometimes their civilian skill sets, if properly understood, managed, and leveraged, can have a short bus very special forces-like force multiplier effect.
We have our strengths and we have our weaknesses.
And we also have our strengths and weaknesses relative to our specific full-time peer group.
It's going to be interesting to see how full-time and part-time professionals adapt in the future.
It will be very interesting to see if/how part-time roles develop for specific skills such as full-time civvie IT professionals performing a part-time cyber role in uniform if it's called for.
And if so, do you put them through Basic/OCS?
I think the Poms are already playing around with part-time cyber as a completely separate track in terms of basic training.