Depending on tour region, reach out to your Region Fieldcraft /Mil Skills Officer.
The feedback has come in from people who have been running courses, Wing FCOs and Region FCOs.
We’ve also been out and seen some stuff delivered to talk to students.
A lot of the review will focus on the policy element not the syllabus as there is very little data to support a syllabus change yet.
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The policy talks about RPL and it should be taken in to account, sounds like a Wing or Region not being sensible or not upskilling their people.
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From a point of view of delivering larger scale activities, its been great to have cadets at a standard.
Before i had cadets come along who had done fieldcraft, completing the syllabus. Others, where Fieldcraft was stucking cam cream on and doing a building clearance…
Now, there is progression. And if cadets (and staff) want to do the gucci blank firing… they have to progress…and show improvement of skills.
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Although progression to cam and concealment and hand signals needing a weekend’s weapon training first doesn’t make much sense to me.
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I didn’t see a request for feedback (but I might have missed it) but in terms of content I think it broadly works.
If I could change anything I’d probably include cam & concealment in Blue, maybe movement (without the weapon) and move night training up to Bronze.
I appreciate the argument that cam
& movement should be taught with the CWS, but the ACF manage to do them without. Their argument is you don’t always have a weapon!
This is the issue we face too. Wing FCOs have tended to take on the planning, certainly for wing level activity. So that leaves a lot of people who were regularly delivering fieldcraft but who don’t have the planning experience.
Whether the planning experience is needed for teaching Bronze or even Silver lessons could be looked at?
All mil-skills documents can have feedback submitted at any time in the document change request section on shooting portal.
These get collated and then discussed at our working groups or bi-weekly meetings.
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Would it be possible to share the outcome of those discussions with the submitter?
I’ve submitted a couple and never heard anything back, nor has any change been implemented.
A one paragraph email with an acknowledgement it had been discussed, and that no change was possible because “x”, would make the submission feel worthwhile. At the moment it feels like a black hole.
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Or, to make it easier, just share the spreadsheet with all the suggestions and a column with a quick accepted/denied and a short reason. It may be a fair bit of effort to email everyone back explaining reasoning. Albeit could be done with power automate I guess.
I’ve certainly made 1 suggesting and heard nothing! Nor has it been changed 
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You mean like the list of proposed changes with responses on the page that links to the form to submit a change - Military skills documents change requests
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Interestingly my suggesting doesn’t seem to be on that list. I wonder if it was never submitted properly 
Well, today I learned.
It’d be nice to know why drafted amendments weren’t published, but otherwise exactly what I was looking for.
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Depends on what the amendments were and to which document. We only update documents for small changes on their review/update dates and not between, people moan when we update things too frequently.
That list is filtered by the looks, we have a teams channel that they go in to as well to notify us of the changes. Let me know the references and I can take a look if they exist.
The suggestion I can’t see was related to the lack of para numbers in the new (new then!) ACP 16. Makes referencing things harder as the closest you can get is page numbers. Adding proper paragraph idents would be useful. Although someone else has suggested the same thing in that list!
Turns out I have made 2 request, as there’s another in that list from me that is green, which I would have assumed means it had been changed, but it appears not to have been.
Was that one also ACP 16 related?
If yes then that may get swept up in the review currently happening.
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