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Post by VoxApocrypha on Oct 9, 2022 0:57:52 GMT -5
The Commission for Armed Forces Readiness and Advancement
Thread for which formal documents pertaining to the expansion and organization of the Roskanan Armed Forces.
Construction Notices and Force Re-organization will be listed here for document preservation.
Commission is headed by:
Admiral David Hackett
Other Members:
General Tesena Feralda
General Adashenko
Admiral Lasha Cetus
General Maximillian Veers
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Post by VoxApocrypha on Oct 9, 2022 0:58:23 GMT -5
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Post by VoxApocrypha on Oct 11, 2022 4:40:59 GMT -5
Written and Posted: October 11th, 2022
CAFRA Building, Outskirts of Auran, RAF Acropolis Complex "Leonis" - Civilian Quarter
Winter, 1931
Tesena laid back in her seat, staring out the window of the two story office building that served as the headquarters of CAFRA. Responsible for the majority of major military spending decisions and a lot of lobbying with it, she and the other five officials of whom effectively made up the upper council of the organization were brought here once every two weeks to discuss issues pertaining to military effectiveness. Or at least they tried to be here on that schedule - but with things such as drills, visits, organized meetings and other such of which often would interfere, they typically had to attend meetings and extend them to cover everything important, or they had to write in recommendations using letters and let couriers do a lot of the work.
It was snowing, winter had arrived.
And so it was promising to be a boring, and yet busy winter too.
A lot of plans were being moved around in government, pertaining in many instances to attempts to expand the economy, and as well, they were planning something else. The implementation of a new system of which would allow for the Federal Government to transfer most of the standing army, a big drain on the bills as it stood, into the reserves and still keep them trained. She and a few others had all had input on it, and she figured it to be a decent enough concept, though part of her remained unsure how it'd work out long-term.
That'd been something she had discussed with members of several committees, and it'd make it so that at least a significant portion of the standing army would be able to transfer to the reserves, of which meant they could live off base, work a civilian job, and that they'd have special considerations given to them by businesses and the government that'd allow them to make it to a week of training. It'd require though that soldiers lived near bases, and worked near them too, making it likely a lot of them wouldn't be able to leave the reserves without at least some new jobs and businesses being opened around a lot of army bases.
It'd also be selectively applied, never given in full to any particualr unit. There always had to be a 50% staffing of troops in any unit, to maintain a training base, a active component, and then a maintenance and logistics component at what was basically half-strength. For the units such as the First Guards Army, they'd not be at anything below 80% strength, given the importance of their duties and missions. For them they'd be given increased opportunities for short-leave and slightly extended long-leaves. The whole process would likely need months to implement in full, given that it was supposed to start with the army - the toughest challenge given its vital role in maintaining the security state of Roskana. The navy would be a whole different beast.
She looked at the door as the knob turned, and the wooden frame would be pushed inward. She watched Hackett and Dejanus make their way inside, as well a couple of representatives of the Diamid, and Mersan and Veers.
Today it seemed, the meeting would be a bit more high level and important. She figured given that it was apparently pertaining to the air force and a significant sector of the armed forces and as well, economy, that it'd likely be wider-reaching in scale than they had figured at first. And so, as she turned, she would look at them and watch each take a seat in a rolling chair.
"Alrighty." Dejanus said, sitting down at the head of the table. "Glad we could all make it with our busy schedules, save for Adashenko and Cetus. They're a bit busy at the moment, and Adashenko refused to put off his leave."
They'd cross their legs under the table, as the rest would relax.
"What's on the agenda today?" Admiral Hackett would ask Deja.
"The air force. Particularly, the overabundance of equipment we have for it, and as well, what we could do to make that equipment useful to us. We've got a lot to use, no one is actively buying vast quantities of the stuff, and we need to start working on a way to make it useful to us in the now so our stockpile can be reduced and the output we have is economically justifiable." He'd say. "The T-30 project continues and is close to a breakthrough, and when we put that into domestic production it's gonna be a definite boon to the air force and Army air force. But as well, that still leaves a lot of leftover material and economic capacity being put into warehouses and storage bunkers. So really, what I want is ideas for how we can properly put some of this to use, and as well, if we can use this to expand the air force as a branch of the Roskanan military in the near to medium, and then long term."
"Ideas huh." Veers said quietly. "Simple. Hire more pilots, build more planes, easy right?"
"Not that easy." Tesena would say. "With every plane we build there has to be a hangar to accomodate it. If we expand their air force's plane reserves and active contingent, we're gonna need to build hangars, air fields, perhaps we'll have to massively expand the launching and holding capacity of existing air fields.. and maybe build new ones. We'll have to also expand the pilot's schools or build a whole new one too."
Deja would nod, with Veers sighing. The Diamid's representatives would wait for a moment, before the female Festria, the larger of the two in this little duo of politicians, would lean in.
"So, to start. The military's budget is already massive, and with how much of it goes unspent, I can't imagine that there is any reason why you can't do some of that. However, the establishment of a Pilot's school is a bit more difficult to justify and run with." They'd say. "In part because of the budgetary concerns, but as well, because this would also require massive civilian involvement and a lot of military technology in the aircraft sector is still classified."
"We'd need civilian contractors for even simple road work, so I think that's kind of unavoidable." Dejanus would say. "I think so long as we keep them away from any airframes, we'll be fine. Remember, most of our aircraft are made by civilian firms working in the defense industry as it is, so I don't think we need to concern ourselves too much with classified specs on engine types and so on leaking from field-workers doing construction, we have our eyes where they need to be in regards to info-security." Dejanus finished.
Veers would follow after, continuing the line of thought.
"Expanding our air force would as well provide us numerous war time advantages, including information collection. In the South Touli conflict there's a lot of incidents so far that recon planes would have been amazing in avoiding." He'd say. "That by itself is justification enough for me to at the least authorize and persue the addition of more fast biplanes to our air force for recon duties."
Tesena leaned back in her seat again, listening to them go back and forth, the debate continuing for a time longer than she had ever really imagined it could. Hours went by, the discussion raged.
An agreement was reached by the time that hte sky was beginning to darken, four or so hours later, the group having come to a decision of which the Diamid could agree to as well, and when they had all dispersed, they left Tesena, Deja and Veers to finish the overall plan, which took another hour of hammering out. When done they sent the stack of papers to the Diamid's PO box in the city proper, and Tesena finally got to go home and catch a little bit of sleep, for once.
Two days later, CAFRA would receive notice of the approval of its requests for assets, and the funding taken from the fat in the budget of the various branches involved.
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