See an earlier posting.
http://www.rumration.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/viewtopic/t=791.html
Things are definately getting worse and I'm not sure the reason - probably it's an institutional thing? What doesn't help is we are a part-time organisation spread out across the country and all busy with real full-time jobs that pay the bills.
ICT has always been a problem and you have to attend the RU to pick up emails. At our RU, we have one PC in an office with about 8/9 SRs and officers trying to get on it. Printer located down another corridor.
If an organisation is largely rudderless, as ours seems to be at the moment, is it any wonder that comms is dire and disjointed? If you look at previous posts on the RNR thread, direction is a real issue. The functional employer for any specific specialisation may only be in that post for a couple of years. Once they go on draft, someone else comes in with different priroties, adding to the lack of continuity. We've seen this on numerous occasions in nearly every specialisation over recent years.
Also, what are the staff like at CMR? On RDPs and suffering from NFI, or young, thrusting & dynamic team players?
When the big cheeses visit the units, do they get the real story or are they sold something entirely false by the CO who is trying top protect his/her own postion?
Would it be better if the respective SO1s were RN, with a team underneath tohelp co-ordinate training and manning up of exercises? Look at the size of the GSSR spec at the moment. There must be between 500-600 lads and lassies in that spec. Thta must be the size of a battalion?How can it be fair or reasonable to expect a body of men to be trained etc by a part-timer?
I'm stepping off my soapbox now!