Is mentorship in the Reserves a thing of the past?

As a retired Army Reserve officer, it does hurt me to say this but in my experience, it is a thing of the past. I think a lot of this is due to a limited amount of training time and when it comes to doing something that is used as a metric for a Commander's OER vs. something that you cannot measure (mentorship) as easily, the measurable thing will win out. Those are what you can put on an OER and that is how many of the units in which served were measured. I spent many drill weekends focused on the latest mandatory training and not even on our battle tasks much less mentoring. That does not mean it is like that for every unit but when a Commander has to prioritize something, it will be what makes the unit look good on a slide. IMHO.

We as leaders need to bring it back. I keep hearing CSMs saying back to the basics but I rarely see it in action when it comes to mentoring, but only in some silliness that people do when they have no real job to do.

Mentorship is not a thing of the past in my unit. We are a training brigade from all branches including aviation and i like the diversity and how or leaders care. My unit cares more about the soldier completing his professional development than the yearly missions. I just hope this RP forum helps us all out. If the DOD is talking about having more Reservists and active duty work together for unit readiness, then I forsee improvements in readiness. I am also sure that command climate surveys will get this out in the open too.