Vbeacher Vbeacher:
Ottawa offices are crammed with fat, dumpy long-service sergeants who have never left Ottawa and would resign if anyone tried to make them. DND has more human resources staff than it does infantry soldiers. There is almost limitless room for unfit soldiers to do things that aren't in the field as long as they are retrained.
Read the universality of service terms and get back to me because, despite their lack of fitness all those fat dumpy long service Sgt's are
technically fit to be deployed. A fitness requirement that permanently categorized members can never attain.
Your solution might work for the Army but, it doesn't hold water for the Navy because of the Sea Shore ratio. A ratio which was put in place to ensure that "all" sailors had a chance to decompress and spend time with their families. But, if the cuddly feely military goes this route it'll mean that there will be no shore billets left for "medically fit" personnel who will be obliged to stay at sea for much longer periods before one of these soon to be golden postings open up.
So fuck Ottawa and it's denizens. That place is an anomaly and you have to look service wide rather than at one den of iniquity to see the impact this decision will have on peoples lives.
You know what would be even better than keeping medically unfit people to take up positions healthy people need or rewriting the Universality of Service requirements though?
Getting the Gov't to start upholding their part of the moral agreement they made with these troops and start giving DVA Pensions like they promised rather than continuing the lump sum payment scale which wouldn't buy most injured a badly maintained used car.