Quick Question re past intakes

Zambia

Hi

Quick question re past intakes

When the freeze was not on how many recruits would be taken on per 6 month cycle?

Many thanks in advance
And to you guys in limbo. Keep your chin up.
Z

Delancey

As I understand it in the good old pre-freeze days intakes started about every 5 weeks ( although there were longer gaps to facilitate Summer holidays , Christmas , etc ).
Training lasts 21 weeks before attestation and thereafter there is a 10 week course of 'Operational Training ' covering things like driving,firearms , etc.
As far as I know intakes are around 50 but sometimes as high as 60.

Zambia

delancey42 wrote: »

As I understand it in the good old pre-freeze days intakes started about every 5 weeks ( although there were longer gaps to facilitate Summer holidays , Christmas , etc ).
Training lasts 21 weeks before attestation and thereafter there is a 10 week course of 'Operational Training ' covering things like driving,firearms , etc.
As far as I know intakes are around 50 but sometimes as high as 60.

Hmm

So each campaign would take on about how many roughly

2 campaigns a year , 53 (remove three weeks for holidays)

53 / 2 = 26

26 / 5 = 5

5 * 60 (best case scenario)

300 Per campaign roughly ?

Delancey

The twice yearly recruitment campaigns are no more , for several years now it has been 1 annual campaign with 440 positions available.

Zambia

Thanks for that.

Cashflow

a squad caps out at roughly 60, but is never that high due to people pulling out/dismissal/recoursing.

The Last reds (my crows) graduated with 53 new officers, the blues before us were ~39. The yellows are the next up, and as it stands will consist of 35 or so people, however there is always the chance that some will be unsuccessful in their week 20 resits, meaning even less will graduate.