Canadian Forces Training Starts Soon

[DracoPaladore 0]

Just noting that after August 7th I will no longer be lurking in the dark corners of this forum anymore. On July 19th I have my enrollment ceremony (oath and swearing in) and on August 7 I start my basic military qualification (basic training).

I'll be going in for Signal Operations, so I'll be the man running around with the radio on my back or rollin' in my pimpin' radio truck.

Just wondering how many forumers here are actually serving or have served.

[ralphwiggum 6]

Congratulations! One of our forum member, Assault(CAN) is also in Canadian armed force.(I think he said he was in army)

[Gollum1 0]

I'm entering service in the FRDF July 10th.

[ran 0]

'carefull DracoPaladore, knowing the state of the canadian armed forces' finances, better look after your radio equipment as if it were your own eyes

Good luck, stay safe, never be the first, never be the last and never volunteer and you should have fun if we believe that saying that is.

And Gollum1, you will be leeeeeeeet with that fancy berret insignia (and the training that goes before it) same goes for you as for DP, and you better enjoy your time, I'm pretty sure you'll get to move around the planet (not too much nor for too long for your well-being I hope)

May the force be with you guys hehehe

[Donnervogel 0]

Hmm how is it in Canada. Can you chose your role when you sign up in detail or do you get you function later. Because I'm a (conscripted) singal troops member of the swiss army and my job doesn't involve much running around with radio on the back or anything else that one would call "action". I operate directional beam antennas, all kinds of radio antennas, radio access points and integrated military network nodes and it's ususally very boring and involves sitting in a hidden bunker with all the high ranked guys for a week or more. Persoanlly I'm quite happy as I can have fun watching movies on army computers and don't have to annoy myself with the "infantry crap" we had to do in basic training. that way service goes by fast and I can go home again

But if you're looking for some "action" you should take care to get some frontline function because there's allways a HUGE infrastructure in the background of any frontline operation these days and that is especially true for data communication infrastructure in modern warfare (My brigade is the biggest of the swiss army).

[hellfish6 7]

Gollum's too pretty to be a soldier. Draco - well... don't shoot yourself in the foot.

[DracoPaladore 0]

Still gonna have to kick you in the rear one day Hellfish in CM.

One day, some day, I just might.

But thanks.

Donnervogel,

When you sign up for the Canadian military you give them three choices for which trades you want. Mine was Combat Engineer, Signals Operations, or Land Communications and Information Systems Technologist.

LCIS came early, told them I wanted my Sigs choice instead so I waited a tad bit longer.

Sigs is a lot of things. From satellite uplinks, mobile radio vehicles, man-packs, recce, field work, head quarters, logistics, etc. I could be attached to a mechanized unit, to an infantry unit, either in deployment or stationed at home.

Sigs, from what I hear, usually get higher chances of deployments than most trades.

Funny thing is, I get to go back to Kingston. I lived there for about seven years of my life (long story, I moved a lot) and that's where my father graduated from the Royal Military College.

[EiZei 0]

From what I have heard from certain friends who went to the FDF that sigs is mostly sitting behind a desk eating donuts and reading comic books.

[DracoPaladore 0]

Hopefully my employment into the Canadian Forces will be entirely opposite of that.

And from what I hear, it is.

If I wanted to do that, I'd join Microsoft.

[EiZei 0]

If I wanted to do that, I'd join Microsoft.

And they probably pay more than 3,6 euros a day too.

[Gollum1 0]

From what I have heard from certain friends who went to the FDF that sigs is mostly sitting behind a desk eating donuts and reading comic books.

Well at the entry tests, we were sitting in the 1st Jaeger (FRDF) company's classroom waiting for the interview portion of the tests, and our NCO's really chatted us up, in the end they asked who's going to apply for Jaeger first, everyone's hand went up...

"As FRDF jaegers, we wait for the enemy to make a breakthrough or landing, then we cruise to the rescue in Pasis with our berets on and flag flying high...and then the enemy calls in some rocket artillery and we all die *laughs*"

Ok, not so inspiring but...

There was some engineer there who tried to propagandize for her branch but she just couldn't compete with 20+ jaegers.

So everyone's order of preference was 1) Jaeger 2) Engineer 3) Signals. Including mine, of course.

Thanks for the well-wishes, and good luck to Draco too.

[Donnervogel 0]

Hopefully my employment into the Canadian Forces will be entirely opposite of that.

well just saying singal troops are much needed for every troop branch and unfortunatly for action lovers most needed for leadership support and that means most of them get deployed doing what eizei describes in some HQ/Command post far away from any action and with all luxuries of the civil life - luckily for me Of course there are also radiomen and such with combat units but those are rather the exception and - depending on army - often just specialised memebers of the combat unit branch and not from the signal corps.

We at "work"

(notice the DVDs)

[Gollum1 0]

unfortunatly for action lovers most needed for leadership support and that means most of them get deployed doing what eizei describes in some HQ/Command post far away from any action and with all luxuries of the civil life - luckily for me

That may have been true in WW2 and in training, but nowadays a station broadcasting just about anything is going to see a hell of a lot of action from the sky if a real "international live-fire excercise" starts! Same for artillery.

[Donnervogel 0]

unfortunatly for action lovers most needed for leadership support and that means most of them get deployed doing what eizei describes in some HQ/Command post far away from any action and with all luxuries of the civil life - luckily for me

That may have been true in WW2 and in training, but nowadays a station broadcasting just about anything is going to see a hell of a lot of action from the sky if a real "international live-fire excercise" starts! Same for artillery.

eh well of course if you fight an enemy with modern technology and air superiority the communication infrastructure is one of the first targets. But it doesn't change the fact that service in these facilities isn't action packed unless you consider getting blasted to pieces by a bunker busting bomb action

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

unfortunatly for action lovers most needed for leadership support and that means most of them get deployed doing what eizei describes in some HQ/Command post far away from any action and with all luxuries of the civil life - luckily for me

That may have been true in WW2 and in training, but nowadays a station broadcasting just about anything is going to see a hell of a lot of action from the sky if a real "international live-fire excercise" starts! Same for artillery.

eh well of course if you fight an enemy with modern technology and air superiority the communication infrastructure is one of the first targets. But it doesn't change the fact that service in these facilities isn't action packed unless you consider getting blasted to pieces by a bunker busting bomb action

too much action for me

Anyway, good luck guys. I was an average grunt here in the danish army, great times. One thing though:

If they ever asks for volounteers to something that sounds really great, NEVER put your hand in the air!