NZ_Bootneck said:
Yeah, tick the boxes for the 'Encouraging Further Education', 'You too could go on summer camps/jollys on the Queen during breaks from Uni.' and 'Scran bags I have known.' lectures but neg the talk on commitment when all know he's back off to Uni and probably won't be back, eh?
How much time will have to be spent checking clearance for suitability, ensuring that the Training programme is adhered to and supervising this person so he/she can claim to have spent time as an 'Instructor' at an Sea Cadet unit?
CV puffery endorsed by the CCF? No wonder they get the amount of dreamers, big timers and other undesireables acting in positions of authority.
Well you've just quite clearly demonstrated you know sweet FA about what you're talking about, haven't you?
Most good SCC units have a timetable in place for how they're going to progress the syllabus. Naturally this can be more or less flexible, but the fact that it's so is why I advised him to contact the unit with details of dates so they could best make use of him. Most URNU students could teach a good range of stuff on the various workbooks, and simply as an extra body are usually welcome. In the end it's down to the CO. If they're short-handed and could use some help, he'll be a benefit to them. Even if they're not short-handed, they might need him to do anything from drill, to nav, to dogsbody stuff as cover when current specialist AIs go on holiday (not unheard of in the summer).
As already stated, he won't need to be CRBed unless he works with children unsupervised. Which he won't. So that's a load of guff about clearance.
Oh and yes, the Sea Cadet Corps - i.e. the people who actually know what they're talking about - have a specific provision in their regulations to allow URNU members to do precisely what he's doing.
And if at the end of that they're happy with him and he's happy with them he can bang it on his CV. God forbid someone would want to do something that is both useful to the community and themselves in an era when the economy is on its arse and every line on the CV counts.
I love RR. Only on here could you get perpetual whinging about chavs and layabouts and then - when someone shows an inclination to get off their arse - see them slammed round the houses by some old, crusty fart. Is right.