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Dacier
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I joined the army on Jan 29th, finished basic training on April 18th in St-Jean now I‘m in Wainwright waiting for a SQ course to start.
I‘m going Infantry.
I‘ll answer any questions people have.
To say a few things:
Basic isn‘t hard. In fact to fail at it you have to be what is called a "**** pump", someone who is lazy. Even then, you have to work hard to fail. Passing basic truly is stupidly easy. Don‘t have any worries about being fit enough for it, you don‘t have to be, at all.
You do a couple of runs during the whole course. I did one a week. They say for you to do about 3-5 km, but the gym class isn‘t long enough for you to run 5k. Smart eh?
There is about 4 gym classes a week, and you do what is called Circut training, where you do a bunch of different excersices in a cycle. Its a bit grueling, but guess what, your not marked on it.
For Males you have to reach 19 pushups at the end of the 10 weeks, only the weak and overweight people on my course, 0306A had problems on it. 19 situps, please "too easy". Hand grip test is only a problem for the guys under 150 lbs, and the run test, you have to reach 6, so unless you are on crutches, you‘ll pass. Do not worry about basic.
The inspectitions are the only thing that makes Basic not a fun time. They are stressful, even then they are easy, but they take hours each night in the first couple of weeks before you realy don‘t care/work on them anymore because your kit will all be squared away at that time.
The first couple of weeks your confined to base, not allowed to do anything then watch TV in a small room. After that you get let loose on the town, and to the Bistro, its a small pub thing in the building. You can go to the Groove, crappy but decent dance club, and you will, trust me on this, you will rent a room at the Comfort Inn.
For Basic, don‘t worry, its easy. Remember when that Master Coporal or Warrant is yelling at you, don‘t take it seriously. Its just a game.
I‘m going Infantry.
I‘ll answer any questions people have.
To say a few things:
Basic isn‘t hard. In fact to fail at it you have to be what is called a "**** pump", someone who is lazy. Even then, you have to work hard to fail. Passing basic truly is stupidly easy. Don‘t have any worries about being fit enough for it, you don‘t have to be, at all.
You do a couple of runs during the whole course. I did one a week. They say for you to do about 3-5 km, but the gym class isn‘t long enough for you to run 5k. Smart eh?
There is about 4 gym classes a week, and you do what is called Circut training, where you do a bunch of different excersices in a cycle. Its a bit grueling, but guess what, your not marked on it.
For Males you have to reach 19 pushups at the end of the 10 weeks, only the weak and overweight people on my course, 0306A had problems on it. 19 situps, please "too easy". Hand grip test is only a problem for the guys under 150 lbs, and the run test, you have to reach 6, so unless you are on crutches, you‘ll pass. Do not worry about basic.
The inspectitions are the only thing that makes Basic not a fun time. They are stressful, even then they are easy, but they take hours each night in the first couple of weeks before you realy don‘t care/work on them anymore because your kit will all be squared away at that time.
The first couple of weeks your confined to base, not allowed to do anything then watch TV in a small room. After that you get let loose on the town, and to the Bistro, its a small pub thing in the building. You can go to the Groove, crappy but decent dance club, and you will, trust me on this, you will rent a room at the Comfort Inn.
For Basic, don‘t worry, its easy. Remember when that Master Coporal or Warrant is yelling at you, don‘t take it seriously. Its just a game.