Should Weekend Leave be abolished during the 32 weeks

daywalker · Post by **daywalker** » Wed 17 Mar, 2004 9:53 pm

When i was on my PRMC we were told that the Officer in charge of CTC is trying to remove the long weekend leave after each training phase!

There is a mixture of feeling about this it seems at CTC.

The idea is that when recruits go home for a weekend, they don't want to come back, hence remove the weekends and have a longer leave period after the 32 weeks!

What do you all think?

robj · Post by **robj** » Wed 17 Mar, 2004 9:55 pm

But surely if they dont want to go back it is because they either think they are not ready for the rest of the training or they are lacking in determination and commitment. So maybe the long weekend is good in the long run?

I cant really comment on this though as I have never been in recruit training before!

rambo · Post by **rambo** » Wed 17 Mar, 2004 10:17 pm

This is a tricky question. I think that the long weeken should stay because it give the recruits something to look forward to. I feel by taking this away it will possibly upset recruits morall (spelling). Thus aking them want to quit. Just my opinion

J.M.C · Post by **J.M.C** » Wed 17 Mar, 2004 10:28 pm

I bloody hope not,im looking forward to the long weekends and easter/summer leave.

Langarotti · Post by **Langarotti** » Thu 18 Mar, 2004 6:06 pm

To be honest the long weekends are pretty pointless you go up on the Friday, spend one day at home, then go back to camp the next morning. Sticky's idea about the long weekend being earned is a good idea though.

When I was at CTC, there were suggestions of letting recruits go to Torquay or Plymouth for the weekend instead. Dont know if it will ever happen though.

TheCount · Post by **TheCount** » Thu 18 Mar, 2004 6:15 pm

Sticky Blue wrote:MORALE...
As a look forward it is good... the dangly carrot as an incentive that can be snatched away is great. A better solution would be NOT to have the long weekend by right but be given one if the training team think the troop merit it.
If someone goes on leave and doesn't want to come back... let them stay at home.

Surely you'd loose half the troop if you felt like that?

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Fri 02 Apr, 2004 1:07 am

Quick question...

After basic is completed, is leave permitted on weekends?

wannabe_bootneck · Post by **wannabe_bootneck** » Sat 03 Apr, 2004 1:00 am

Yup, I know fora fact that when you're at your unit, you finish work at about 12pm on Fri afternoon I believe & then you're not back on again till Monday morning. Apparently it's the done thing to travel home to.

dan · Post by **dan** » Sat 03 Apr, 2004 12:43 pm

Weekened leave, however brief, was absolutely brilliant. I used to love sitting on that train back home; maybe the best feeling in the world other than marching off the parade square on the Kings Squad. Coming back is always the worst feeling in the world!...But there was never any feeling in my mind about quitting, just a lot of dripping back in the grots!

I heard that CTC has every weekend as 'long weekend leave' now once you finish Week 7. Is this a gen dit?? If this is true, and at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old sweat (i'm currently troop sprog), then it's a complete joke! Half the pain of CTC is knowing you're stuck there! if you only have to work until friday, safe in the knowledge that mummy can pick you up and spoil you all weekend, where's the ol' bootneck grit and b*ll*cks going to come from?

fodd · Post by **fodd** » Sun 04 Apr, 2004 4:31 pm

dan that dit is true after week 7 you have the whole weekend off as long as you dont hav work on saturday morning! langrotti what troop are you??

rambo · Post by **rambo** » Sun 04 Apr, 2004 6:18 pm

Fodd i think langrotti jacked it in mate..He came down with some sort of virus and optted out.

Langarotti · Post by **Langarotti** » Mon 05 Apr, 2004 1:57 pm

Fodd i think langrotti jacked it in mate..He came down with some sort of virus and optted out.

I'm afraid so, I got to week 6; then got a really bad chest infection, I posted about it a while ago.

Good luck Fodd, which troop are you?. I was in 870, they were a great bunch. I'm still in contact and they are all doing well.

Rambo, good luck when you start basic.

cglees · Post by **cglees** » Mon 05 Apr, 2004 5:36 pm

I dont really see your point.
With the new leave policy now in place you get even more long weekends.
If your not working Sat or Sun you get leave from Fri night through to Sun night.
Far from taking them away they are giving us more.
My friends troop seem to have a long weekend every couple of weeks now.

Maybe they are stopping the ones after each phase of training because we get so many now anyway.

If someone does not want to be there anymore they dont, giving them weekend leave is not suddenly going to make them want to quit.
No-one wants to come back after leave but the fact is you have to, you have no say in the matter and thats that.
I never want to go back, but as soon as I walk in the grot and see all my oppo's that feeling goes away.

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