Infantry Reconnaissance Officer...

• Prestroz

  4 Oct 04, 10:29

  Hi guys, forgive me for my ignorance, kinda heard of this vocation before in the army... seriously i'm quite interested in this vocation, cos it fulfills both my interest of working with people and doing reconnaissance work.... from my limited knowledge, it seems that the job scope is quite similar to a scout or BRC except that you are an officer leading them.... could any of you guys share with me more of this vocation... (requirements (BMT~OCS~SMI??), job scope, training etc...) A thousand thanks...
  
• spencer99

  4 Oct 04, 11:29

  Platoon Commander - Scout Platoon.
• thoreldan

  4 Oct 04, 11:56

  commonly known as scout PC
• Obersturmfuhrer

  4 Oct 04, 12:18

  Platoon Commander - Brigade Recon Coy
  
  Exercise duties quite clear cut:
  
  Lead a team of XX, including yourself and conduct insertion behind line of conflict to gather information on general enemy desposition, location of key obstacles along Brigade route of advance. Keep your eyes and ears open. (It may be your platoon but you only control XX-1 men in actual fact)
  
  Administrative duties include:
  
  1) regular stints as Brigade Duty officer (very few Lieutenants at Bde HQ so its a short turnaround time b4 your next duty)
  
  2) Write lesson plans for Coy training sessions
  
  3) Kena all sorts of arrows like investigating officer or something from HQ to organise any minor event. Worse if going overseas, the coy will kena most of the duties such as emplaning and duty-free. (Coy only has 6 junior Officers including the OC so you'll have a 20% chance of getting the arrow)
• wuming78

  4 Oct 04, 20:53

  please remember to keep information shared to those that can be found in the public domain.
• beavan

  4 Oct 04, 21:06

  Originally posted by wuming78:

  please remember to keep information shared to those that can be found in the public domain.

  all these are pretty safe what.....
• Obersturmfuhrer

  4 Oct 04, 23:52

  Apologies, my mistake. Suppose to be more people but what the heck.
• Johnston

  5 Oct 04, 00:14

  Originally posted by wuming78:

  please remember to keep information shared to those that can be found in the public domain.

  Simple really.
  All requests for info on vocations, if the person is still employed by SAF, refer them to their S1 office to check out the Directory of Vocation.
  
  All else, give them whatever is considered public, and for further enquiry, call ARC.
• I_love_my_toilet

  5 Oct 04, 01:17

  Tough being the commander of the best platoon in battalion or brigade.
  Tat makes u the best Lieutenant in the battalion or brigade.
  
  For admin, expect the same administrative tasks. Duty officer...
  
  For Ops, muz be v zai la. Map planning etc...
  Planning with S2 or BRC OC, overall knowledge n requirement of the mission.
  Usually attached to team tasked with the most important mission.
  
  Expect high expectation from your superiors... both during ops n admin.
  
• xiao_mao

  5 Oct 04, 01:35

  i suppose u will also be one of those most hated personnels by ur men within the battalion or bridage cos u will always stress them out for ippt gold..soc pass, no failure rate..everything swee swee..tats my opinions since i came under 2 PC before..
• Prestroz

  5 Oct 04, 10:34

  Originally posted by I_love_my_toilet:

  Tough being the commander of the best platoon in battalion or brigade.
  Tat makes u the best Lieutenant in the battalion or brigade.
  
  For admin, expect the same administrative tasks. Duty officer...
  
  For Ops, muz be v zai la. Map planning etc...
  Planning with S2 or BRC OC, overall knowledge n requirement of the mission.
  Usually attached to team tasked with the most important mission.
  
  Expect high expectation from your superiors... both during ops n admin.
  

  In this case, in order to get selected i presume you must be super on lor... (IPPT Gold, good SOC timing, Outstanding performance in OCS)... wonder if it would increase my chances if i sign on as a scout PC...??
• Obersturmfuhrer

  5 Oct 04, 22:16

  Generally the OCS PCs would tell you that only top XX% gets selected for Recon roles and so on so forth. How many of us who were there actually dare to say they fall into that particular percentile?
  
  But what I can conclude so far is a good sense of direction and good navigation skills are enough to land you the job. It helps too if there are vacancies and you're not posted to Wings reputed for churning out people destined for support vocations (ie QM, DyS).
  
  All these were before the new Int Officer vocation came into play. Last I heard, only regulars in that vocation have priorities to the job.
• ah_suaiz

  10 Dec 04, 22:28

  basically there are two ways to become recce pc. either you sign on as intelligence officer or you are very garang during ocs.
  fyi, scout pc in the battalion who are nsf are usually the som(sword of merit). they are the top ten in their ocs wing. so most of them are very garang cos unlike rifle pc who lead their men to fight mission, scout pc will be tasked by s2 on what he need to do. totally a different ball game from rifle pc. and most importantly, he must be able to topo well, imagine a scout that holland.