The Canadian military insists it’s getting a handle on its recruiting crisis, but a new leaked internal report obtained by CBC News suggests many of those who come through the door quickly leave in frustration over the inability to get trained and into the job they want.

In addition, the effort to retain experienced soldiers, sailors and aircrew was dealt an important blow recently when a Department of National Defence office — set up to find ways to keep people — was defunded.

The struggle to recruit new members to both the regular and the reserve force has been a major preoccupation as the Forces face a shortage of up to 14,000 qualified personnel.

But the flip side of the equation — that has gotten less attention — is the effort to hold on to people, especially in critical technical trades.

  • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Which is totally normal? Most countries have a difficult time with talent retention in the military because it’s basically a public servant with extra hot spice when you don’t want any spice. Hate meetings and power tripping bosses? Well imagine your company is composed of the same people but the hierarchy is 5x bigger and they’re harder to fire and they’re more macho and into guns.

    The exception in terms of retention is maybe the US that uses the insane cost of higher education to lure people in debt into the military payroll, but I wouldn’t wish a similar system on my compatriots. Also probably Israel is another exception not to follow…