>>36665138Its not a stupid stereotype, civilians with military training just aren't the same as full time military.
Its not their preferred job, its not what they wanted to do with their life and they'll have plans to do something else. As a (now) civilian its completely understandable as the military isn't for everyone, so they do a half-arsed job of it enough to get by.
As a 'rifleman', you'll go through 11 weeks intensive training (no leave) and then assessed at the end of it, either to repeat some aspects or be mustered out into the regiments. There's a lot of training there and most of it will be a very wide spread of arms and equipment, field craft, survival and PT. It is extremely hard physically and mentall.
You'll on average be doing live firing about once ever 3-4 months during peace time (plus about 2-3 big annual events of training), during an escalation or planned deployment it'll go up to 6-8 times a year, during that if I chuck you a mag with 30 rounds in it, I'd expect most to be able to at bare minimum be able to lay 28 on a target at 200m. But marksmanship is only part of it, there's vehicle training, desert, jungle, mountain warfare courses, you'll be doing a lot of platoon and company level activities that involve heavy and specialist weapons, some will also be offered leadership courses later on (NCO training) and there's a fuckload of survival, communications, rope use, swimming, more PT! and the usual drawing dicks on the inside of APC's.
If you're really lucky they'll throw you out of helicopters, drive boats, get 4wds bogged, go deaf playing with mortars, grenades, missiles and vast amounts of their life being covered in dirt, mud and bitten by bugs= and loving it.
>midnight here, turning into a pumpkin and good night! 
