After spending some time around home with family and friends we looked at some of the brigades or units that we are members of and with a little bit of assistance from the promo website we found some like us where we are part of the two services i.e. SES and CFS.
The question posed is not designed for the lets amalgamate the two services thread that rears it head now and then.
Presently we have one piece of legislation that governs the services, one lot of VSO that are shared between the services and that where two the services cohabit the costs are shared.
But what is not shared or rather duplicated is that of administration, other papper work and training.
If we can share, combine and pool other resources why can't we do the same administration and training where eventhing seems to be duplicated as it it is part of some empire that each service wants.
In times where the cost of providing the services is difficult enough would any cost cutting that is sensible be worthwhile exploring. i.e one Registered Training Organization as opposed to two one State Training Centre as opposed to two. One lot of asset auditing or financial returns. With the savings we could always put it back into the services to support those that have given up so much and maybe attract some new ones
Your thoughts people