Calgary & Edmonton & Saskatoon
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Sup guys. Just thought I'd drop you guys a line since i finally got a little time to relax. I'm on my 9th week of 14 over here at basic training. I gotta say, it's actually a little harder then i expected. Not necassarily physically, I havn't had any problems with that. They just stress you out by giving you tasks to do that you don't have time to do and what not. The first 4 weeks is were they really try to weed out who really wants to be there, so they do all kinds of crazy crap to you to stress you out. My platoon went from 72 to 50 in the first week! We basically work 16 hour days during the week. An average day has 3 hours PT ( 1 hour jog, 1 hour gym, 1 hour swimming or something) and then ontop of that you have about 1 obstacle course and 1 rucksack march every week ( huge ass backpack like 70 pounds). Then ontop of that you have pushups whenever someone f**ks up. Then again ontop of that we have about 6 hours of drill a week wich can be very intense. We got our rifles on week 6 and our dogtags, and during the drill classes we have to hold our rifle out with 3 fingers with arm straight and extended. Your f**king sweating and shaking like crazy its pretty hard. They basically try to cram as much information and training as possible into you every day. We have roughly 3 1/2 hours of classes each day were we learned mostly basic milatary knowledge, safety and history at first ( very dull). But now were into all the cool crap, Week 5 was all first aid and now im first aid certified. Week 7 we learned how to use our rifles properly and fix stopages and crap incase a round gets caught in the chamber and all the safety precautions so you dont fire by accident and crap. Now were learning topography and radio communications and crap. Just basic leval of course it will get more advanced when i go to battle school. The thing that makes the course hard is the milatary has changed over the years, back in the day your sergeant would just make you do pushups or slap you around or osmething if you f**ked up, nowadays they do that... but ontop of that if you f**k up to many times, they straight up kick you out or recourse you. The fear of failure and being kicked out is by far the hardest part about this place. Every time you f**k up you get written up, if you f**k up 7 times they recourse you. My platoon picked up like 12 guys from all different weeks on week 2. Some of them were 3 days from graduating and they f**ked up got there 7th counseling and got sent back to week 2 to do it all over again, Theres one guy on my platoon who has been here for a year. Ontop of that theres something like 26 different tests we do here, for example the physical test, a weopens drill test, topography test, first aid test, history test etc. Fail 4 and your recoursed. So yah that's the only part of this place that stresses me out. Im doing pretty good so far tho, I've passed all my tests and I've only been written up 1 time. So im on pace to pass the course. I was 1 of only 5 people of our 70 who got a special exempt status on our physical that makes it so they dont test us again for 3 years because were already in good shape. So yah its cool to be in the top 10% for fitness. I also am either the best or 2nd best runner on the platoon so my section commander likes me so thats good. It's crapty tho cuz they want the good runners to suffer like the others, so i have to wear a shiny traffic vest so we dont get hit by cars while were running, so me and the other best runner have to run circles around our whole platoon while they jog the whole time, it makes it hard, good thing some of them f**king suck at running and they dont go very fast. We only get 20 minutes on the ocmputer and that's all i could pump off. Got to go, see you guys later, wish me luck. |
Posted: Sep 30 2007 7:24PM
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Well good luck and enjoy the next phase. HAHAH the next phase sucks more! Since they changed, the SQ course is now more demanding and it is all about what you've learned and to apply said skills. It is long and challenging as you will be in Wainwright for the next level of training and Wainwright sucks at the best of times. Weather is un-predictible and since you'll be there in winter it really bites ass...literally(cold)but keep the training real and do your best. That is the only way you can make it thru, if you fall into bad habits now it is hard to change once you're in the Batallion and trust me you want to be sharp when you arrive at the unit. Keep up the good work and "Perseverance" Strathconas motto. |
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