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cnthaiksarok · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 4:05 am Post subject:

SOP = Standard Operating Procedure

You have an excellent training program running with professionals who take the job seriously and get things done...you start chipping away at the benefits and you're left with the dregs.

This is right from the horse's mouth:

Work hours were originally: 6:30-12.

Now they are to 6:00-2:00 pm with very real designs on extending it to 3 pm.

From classes of 4-6 student-cadets to 10+ in small, congested rooms.

Paid holidays are going down in number next year.

International health insurance took a dive except for absolute emergency care being reimbursed (most likely at a %age comparable to Kingdom costs.

Latest cycle brought in student-cadets who had failed Book one (DLI) 5 times! They don't care..., etc.

NCO's for disciplinary purposes are never around.

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Mass exodus is underway.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Let me remind travellers of the wise words of Virgil - "The descent into the Netherworld is easy......"

https://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/poetry_and_prose/Aeneid.6.124-141.html

The challenge is to return in one piece with some of your sanity.

cnthaiksarok · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:08 am Post subject:

siologen · Joined: 25 Oct 2016 Posts: 336

cnthaiksarok · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:17 am Post subject:

How about an "odder" guard or one more prone to misfits? Laughing

siologen · Joined: 25 Oct 2016 Posts: 336

There could be a demand for that type of job in the gulf, lol

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

nickelgoat · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 3:57 pm Post subject:

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Lord T · Joined: 07 Jul 2015 Posts: 285

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From classes of 4-6 student-cadets to 10+ in small, congested rooms.
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Am I the only one who had a very difficult time coming up with any sympathy about this information??? LOL

Oh my... your classes have gone up to 10 students!! Shocked

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But these 'students' are often young men from the desert. That can make class management rather more challenging.

cnthaiksarok · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:45 pm Post subject:

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cnthaiksarok · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:51 am Post subject:

We get 16 to 17 but there's (just) enough room.

The point was:

One of the HUGE draws to Blue Force was the small groups of students.

You could actually do some edumacatin.' Alas, force-feeding operations have taken over.

sammysez · Joined: 20 Nov 2016 Posts: 119

And if the students don't make 80 or above on the test, what happens to the teachers??