{"id":11919,"date":"2015-10-09T05:58:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2015-10-09T05:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:58:59","slug":"officer-professional-development-begins-for-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/officer-professional-development-begins-for-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Professional Development Begins for 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article written by Officer Candidate Stelios Klapsis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Westmount, Quebec – 08 October 2015:\u00a0Every year, The Royal Montreal Regiment (RMR) organizes and offers professional development for its junior officers with the intent of training and preparing them for their upcoming career courses. On Wednesday, September 16th 2015, the very first professional development night of the 2015 \u2013 2016 training year took place at the RMR armory. The professional development nights are aimed at providing training that aids junior officers in their future career courses, and are provided by the more senior and fully qualified RMR officers. These training nights see attendance from both unqualified junior officers, who take the role of students, and trade qualified officers, who act as instructors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sweating the details in the conference room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The very first professional development of the year was intended to cover the importance of a <\/span>transport matrix, as well as ho<\/span>w to make one. Transport matrixes<\/span> are quite important in ensuring that <\/span>drivers have<\/span> a<\/span> <\/span>clear picture of what is happening, and when to expect it. The order and positions of those who get on and off of different forms of transport is very critical to the smooth conduct of an operation, and should be rehearsed when possible. Furthermore, the s<\/span>tandardized NATO map symbols for<\/span> units to weapons and equipment is covered as an introduction<\/span> in preparation<\/span> to more advanced material in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n

On<\/span> this specific training night, we learned how<\/span> to show the size of a unit<\/span>,<\/span> as well as its designation on the map. We discussed how different symbols <\/span>could<\/span> be amalgamated to create different types of symbols. For example, by combining the symbol for infantry and armored you can create the symbol for mechanized infantry. Many of these more specific types of symbols exist, and they range from things such as arm<\/span>ored <\/span>recce<\/span> to mountain infantry. We as well <\/span>learned that weapons and weapon emplacements <\/span>could<\/span> be shown on a map using symbols<\/span>. These included<\/span> everything from a C7 to a claymore. Being able to unde<\/span>rstand these map symbols and their effective u<\/span>s<\/span>e is<\/span> important, as it allows officers at the tactical level to create maps and diagrams that show the locations of <\/span>weapons assets. For an infantry <\/span>officer<\/span>,<\/span> skills such as these are incredibly significant, both for working as an effective officer within the Royal Montreal Regiment, and for future career courses.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the training night, the junior officers were assigned homework <\/span>in order <\/span>to establish a solid grasp of the material in preparation for the next professional development <\/span>night. <\/span>Future training sessions will take the material that was covered in the previous training night and both expand on it, and apply the knowledge effectively. For those concepts that may require an environment that is slightly more in depth than a classroom, the professional development training will take RMR officers to the field<\/span>,<\/span> where they will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in a more practical environment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article written by Officer Candidate Stelios Klapsis Westmount, Quebec – 08 October 2015:\u00a0Every year, The Royal Montreal Regiment (RMR) organizes and offers professional development for its junior officers with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}