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Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Special Commission on the Restructuring of the Reserves:
10 Years Later - Selected Speaking Notes: Air Reserve
Dr. Richard Gimblett
Abstract
In the interests of full disclosure, it’s necessary for me preface my remarks with a few points.
Having been around as long as I have, I come from the old school of MARS officer, who had very little contact with naval reservists through his operational career. Actually, I probably had more than most of my contemporaries, due to a variety of unique circumstances, right from my earliest days in the Navy. Because I was at RMC, my MARS II naval training was in the summer, and to flesh out the numbers some reservists augmented our course. We were young and didn’t know any better, and they were all university students too, so we didn’t really notice any difference. If anything, my lasting impression was that our Course Training Officer had almost as low an opinion of the “shads” as he did of us “MilCol pukes”.