Canadian Forces Infantry Soldier Working Conditions Video

[skateman1994]

a woodland tunic****

[skateman1994]

Why is that corpral wearing and woodland tunic?

[demicorbett]

@skateman1994 He is wearing the notorious Garrison Jacket a useless piece of fabric from the 80's.

[gloryglorybarcelona]

loool this was back when they still used the M1 helmet. this is aaaaaancient.

[TheBrick534]

I dont give a damn is the living condition sucks, ill try my best and be a soldier.

[sgtliam10]

8-4 job!!??! HA! That was so 10 years ago!

[rickpurejuice]

Cool! respect de canadian forces!

[TheCFarmy]

How old is this video has to be before 2004 cause I seen the old jeep and not the g wagon

[caporalchef4]

@TheCFarmy This is late 80/early 90's.

[alexn69able]

@Hawkeye323232  I said infantry and basic i think some infantry are trained in gagetown as well, i know other trades are trained elsewhere.

[Argo108]

olive garb looks more dramatic :)

[silverdart333]

i hav this its from 1986 good stuff

[FamVIDS2012]

Hah! How old is this video?

[striker2387045]

sry i meant now more better camo like cadpat plus equip

[striker2387045]

this 2yr old ppl its much better noe cadpat and better equip

[SoggyPatato]

@striker2387045 wayyyy more then 2 years, this is from the nineties

[Hotives]

This looks old, when was this filmed?

[lon71]

@Hotives Very early 90's

[systema101]

@lon71 wow we've come a long way from the 90s. look at how much more improved we are from then pretty impressive. were considered to be the worlds SF so we better damn well be. fucking greatful to be canadian

[MrAlexandreJuby]

@Hotives looks ols but never gets old XD

[PcGamerPaul]

This is a old video right? they dont have cadpat

and those tanks

[ShadowDeathBl1tz]

how old is this video? they dont even have lavs or cadpat yet

[smoothoperator427]

R3TR0

[xxxusernameherexxx]

ohhh a friend of a friend story huh? there is no physical abuse from any person in the military to another. dont be an idiot.

[DamRights]

@xxxusernameherexxx i wouldn't say its bullshit. I just finished my training, im talkin Reg not Res, and there was some physical but mostly mental abuse.

[hotelzoloactual]

@trueblue151 lol my dad was a warrant officer have to ask about that

[lon71]

Oh I know. Up until yesterday I was intimately involved with the recruiting world.

[twomells]

very old video but still

[HatakeStrife]

lol @ the Olive green.

CADPAT to the rescue.

[sage1119]

man thats an old video

[cf80to01]

2 months a year away from home.......that is some funny shit. You don't work weekends..... that is even funnier.

[berner]

Yep, considering we weren't involved in Afghanistan at the time this video was shot, where we're over there for six months at a time now, just like mostly everyone else over there, and what's even funnier is how people choose not to realize that no matter what military you're in, you're legally allowed to take time off. Time off is time off, whether it's Saturday and Sunday, or Monday and Thursday.

[cf80to01]

The problem is that, depending on the Unit CO you may never see the time you feel you are entitled to. I have been in a unit that worked Mon-Fri, would be bugged out Friday (from work, so no one had a chance to get into the booze), in the field for 2 weeks, in Sunday afternoon, home Sunday evening (after all the kit cleaned, tents hung, trucks washed and rekitted, etc.... back into work for Monday morning PT.

[Marty2475]

Spent 7 years in 2 RCR, loved it. Bugged out for 2 weeks on a Friday night never happened in my unit, and I have never heard of that happening. Oh and you don't loose any human rights when you join the infantry. Someone told you a few lies and I'm sorry you believed them. EVERYONE is entitled to their human rights, that is what soldiers stand up to fight for.

[cf80to01]

Pro Patria! I was a SigPig with 2RCR in the late 80's. Best posting of my career, followed closely by 1RCR. You bullshit your friends and I will bullshit mine, but lets not bullshit each other......I could see the smile on your face from here when you wrote "you don't loose any human rights when you join the infantry". ;-)

[Marty2475]

You don't lose any rights, they are still there. Sometimes it may feel like you are denied access to them, but in reality they are still there. Yes it is a hard job both physically and mentally. Yes you get yelled at if you don't do your job. Yes the same things happen at a construction site, or any other job for that matter. The one difference is that you can be told to go into harms way. being at the pointy end is kinda fun though. :P

[cf80to01]

Trust me.... you lose some rights. A construction worker can walk off the job if he feels harrassed or that his job puts him in danger. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen don't have that luxury. Civvies can quit with two weeks notice (or just leave).... try that in the military. Etc, etc, etc....

[cf80to01]

I also forgot to mention that,once you sign your name to the paper..... you have given up some of your basic human rights. Being a soldier means you no longer have the same rights as a civilian. I am not complaining.... it is that way for a reason.....but it is important that civvies don't think they are signing up for a job at the Wal-Mart.

[berner]

Yeah my roomate used to be PP3CLI and when I told him I was going down to the recruiting center just to check it out, he said that if I join, not to let them talk me into going infantry.

I didn't sign up for anything though because I wanted to go boatswain with the navy in the hopes of eventually getting on to the boarding party, but it wasn't available.

[cf80to01]

I would suggest you go to another recruiting centre and see what they say. CBC news ran a story a couple of days ago that the Navy is having difficulty recruiting enough people, so it seems odd that you couldn't get Bos'n. Remember, recruiters will lie to you.

[diveit]

I applied as boatswain aswell, in april, here I am going infantry reserves, not enough spots open in the Navy.

[cf80to01]

Again, I would try another Recruiting Centre. My step-son applied 5 weeks ago (for Navy) and did his physical last week. I expect him to be offered BMQ by the end of Nov.

[corbsvt]

wow this is really old haha the uniforms are much different now lol

[RabidSpatulaPaul]

Haha yeah look at the M113s and the ILTAS. At least they got C7s ;)

[steven69re]

yea there wearing the old uniforms this video was shot in the 90s

[merrick362]

I'm digging the garrison dress

[bobdole92]

jeeze i just realized we don't always need CADPAT to look incredibly bad ass in combats :)

[badideass]

80's were a good year

[cf80to01]

I spent 21 years in the CF and 2 best postings were with The RCR. I owe them everything I became in the CF, the Army didn't make me all I could be, the Royals did. I spoke so highly of them that my son tried to join the CF as Infantry/RCR but was placed in Sigs due to a slight colour blindness issue. His goal now is to top his TQ3 so he can be posted to 2RCR.

Pro Patria / V.V.V.

[yaknowurright]

i dont understand it says u train like all week long from 8 to 4 and then u go home after that and on weekends

well what if i live on the van island and the training is done in alberta

how n the hell do i get home every weekend and sleep everynight, unless the "going home" part is for people close to the base?...can someone fill me in please?

[lon71]

If you are posted to a base, you would live in the area immediately around the base. You would not commute from Van Is.

[tweedside16]

not true, im posted to CFB gagetown and i live and hour away

[alexn69able]

@yaknowurright as far as i know all the infantry training is done in Quebec and that's including basic. basic is 13 weeks and infantry is around that too. then when your done all of that they assign you a base and you live either on or around it. so there is no travel time per say.

[Hawkeye323232]

@alexn69able not all training is done in Quebec, but nation wide, like Battle Training School Meaford, in Ontario. Armour troops do trade specific training in Gage Town New Brunswick.

[taylorbasketball122]

@yaknowurright u live on base unless you have your own house in the area

[walkertexasranger33]

@yaknowurright lmao.......

[sgtodeath]

hahahaha m1s!!

[AlmostJesus]

Wow is this video from the 80's?

[amopat5]

Yeah, and look, they still got te canadian O.D.s got this is so old

[TwiggyKRHS]

wow thats old they still use the m-1 hemlets

[Marty2475]

lol im wondering how many people got roped in after watching that one........and im one of the got roped in ones. haha

[mudcruncher49]

lol i got the new one added on my profile

[lon71]

It's about 15 years old, but other than some of the equipment and uniforms being out of date most of the information is to the point.

[bighairyfrog]

how old is this vid?