Maritime security. Is the Corps facing a crisis?

I had my eldest kid (17 years old & a backtrooper from the wife's previous marriage) at the careers office on Tuesday and they reckon there is a 500 man backlog on PRMC's at the moment, leading to a 3-6 months wait to get down to CTC!

The recession has been a massive prof for the forces, the Corp is one of the few outfits that can actually recruit at the moment, but if so many blokes have their chits in then it's no wonder.

Age old thing for the Corp, don't give a **** about retention, massively spend on recruitment. (Has anyone ever smacked a kid in a cinema for gobbing of at a Bootneck Recruitment Advert??!!).
 
I think alot of older lads at 45 will put there chits in now its been confirmed there moving down south especially with marsec taking off
 
New to the site, but I am another SNCO whos just put his chit in to leave because the Corps gave my job to the Navy and then winged when I asked to leave early. The Corp is freefall at the moment and operating on crisis management. I dont think its got any idea where its going.
 
Can't agree with you enough on this one and there's a huge number of ex-Olive Group guys looking for work now that Olive have lost their operating licence in Iraq. Too many people looking for a small number of jobs means a lot of frustration for some people.

Maritime is the latest fad and now that the UK government have authorised the use of armed security onboard vessels flying the Union Flag, this will have a significant impact on Piracy in my opinion, but we'll see what happens.
 
The UK governments decision to arm their flag ships will not make an once of diffenerence (my opinion), 5yrs of doing maritime and I have not once worked on a british flagged vessel........Which means there are a lot of other flag states asking for security. The goverments decision won't do the industry any harm, in fact far from it but I do think the qualifications will be tighter and lads will be asked to pay out more to gain these quals!
 
The amount of British flagged vessels is very small so it is going to make very little difference to MARSEC. People seem to think that it is a major thing but it is of very little consequence in the maritime world.
 
Agree Bevs,

Where as allowing British vessels to embark armed security may keep 4 fellas in a job, the benchmark they set with regards to regulations will probably become adopted unofficially as an industry standard. A couple of reasons, one would hope and expect the UK to come up with a reasonable and workable set of regs, the other simply because the vast majority of Marsec companies seem to be UK based, as are many of the operators.
 
Interesting topic and a controversial one, Ive just left the core for my own reasons and I know that 40 CDO after their Afgan 2010 the entire mortars handed their chits in the only blokes that didn't were the CSM and the Boss hahahaha. The Core has been around for 348 years and it will be around for another 348. What will be interesting to see, will be the standard of training. I took nods through in 2005 and the shit cuddle courses I had to take was horrendous. But I will say this the method of getting recruits to the end of training may have changed but the end product is still the same. The proof is out on the ground look at what the lads have and are accomplishing in theatre.
 
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