3rd week basic training...

[R3tic]

this friday will be my 3rd week. Its been xtremly boring so far, we‘re always indoors doing lectures and drills. When will we do the fun things like weapons briefing, etc????

Honestly i‘m not feeling very motavated to go again.

 

[combat_medic]

If you can‘t do proper drill with your feet, then you‘re hardly dependable enough to be handed a weapon. If you‘re bored and unmotivated, then you need to re-evaluate the reasons you joined in the first place. If you thought the military would be a million thrills a minute, then you were mistaken.

You need to find the motivation within yourself to go back. If it‘s not your thing, then there‘s no shame in quitting. If you decide to persevere and stick with it, then you‘re going to have to learn how to deal with the tedium inherant to a lot of the parts of the military.

Not to mention that the moment you get issued your weapon on basic training, your life becomes immediately more complicated and difficult; it‘s hardly something to look forward to.

 

[stukirkpatrick]

As they say, good things come to those who wait...

Or....don‘t bite off more than you can chew.

Once rifle drill starts, you will miss these simpler days.
And be glad that you are indoors for it, some drill instruction takes place on hot ashphalt in the mid-summer Prairies. *twitch* :blotto:

Just try to hang in there, and the hardship will eventually pay off, considerably.

 

[Korus]

And be glad that you are indoors for it, some drill instruction takes place on hot ashphalt in the mid-summer Prairies. *twitch*

The berret tan-line builds character.

Paul, BMQ is a lot of basic military knowledge and boring lectures, with some time on the C7. SQ is where you will really get into weaponry, etc.

The Militia, you‘ll find, is often what you make of it. BMQ is one of my best memories, not because I enjoyed sitting through Sharp training or other lectures, but because of the people I went through it with. Stick through it, keep a positive attitude, and you‘ll get to the fun stuff.

 

[Sh0rtbUs]

I was doing detail and field stripping with the C7 before our first week....I geuss each unit has their own way of doing things. I will agree with you though, drill blows. But you cant have the high points without taking the low..

 

[Righty]

Ahhhh....sharp training....

6 hours of my life i‘ll never see again

and on the subject of when do i get my rifle...it‘s not as great as it seems. going from prone to standing postion over and over in fighting order and then staying in prone on hard cement floors for 15 minuets strait is.... not so great.

 

[fleeingjam]

If you dont mind can u please tell me if this is Reg or Reserve? and if it is are u doing the year round one where its like weekends or 3rd week straight of training, I ask because pretty soon I may have to do it too. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[stukirkpatrick]

Paul‘s profile says reservist, and since he refers to going ‘back‘ to training, I will use my powers of deduction to assume that it is weekend BMQ - plus, if he hasn‘t touched a C7 by the third week of BMQ, theres a problem - the course is only less than 4 training weeks.

 

[1feral1]

I love giving drill, at 0600 or after midnight! It makes no difference to me.

Cheers,

Wes

 

[Marauder]

Honestly i‘m not feeling very motavated to go again.

Then quit.

 

[Infanteer]

Honestly i‘m not feeling very motavated to go again.

No kidding, if you have to come to shed tears on the internet for motivation, we probably don‘t need you.

 

[Jarnhamar]

If someones having a bit of a bad day sometimes i think they need a litte reassurence. If someone talks about quitting all day and night and through out the whole course i say let them quit. i hate seeing cases of guys and girls wanting to quit all summer/course and their instructors keep getting them to change their mind and stick around only to have them graduate go back to their unit and be a defeatist. This sucks that sucks army sucks. One of the guys in my company wanted to go home the second week of pre-training. Was dead set against going to bosnia. "Why should i wake up for my CP shift? its my section commanders job to wake me up" Is something he‘s said more than once. He‘s still here.

If someone doesnt like the army than send them home so everyones happy.

 

[Jungle]

Originally posted by Kirkpatrick:
[qb] Paul‘s profile says reservist, and since he refers to going ‘back‘ to training, I will use my powers of deduction to assume that it is weekend BMQ - plus, if he hasn‘t touched a C7 by the third week of BMQ, theres a problem - the course is only less than 4 training weeks. [/qb]

4 weekends ??? That‘s 8 days... They have kids qualified BMQ after 8 days !?!?!? This is ludicrous...
If you can‘t take an 8-day course spread over 4 weekends, GO HOME !!!

 

[stukirkpatrick]

4 weekends ??? That‘s 8 days... They have kids qualified BMQ after 8 days !?!?!? This is ludicrous...
If you can‘t take an 8-day course spread over 4 weekends, GO HOME !!!

Whoh, its not THAT bad , I don‘t know how many equivalent weekends there are, but I meant 4 weeks of BMQ if taken all at once, as in the summer.

 

[Gibson]

It‘s 20 days, if it was 4 weekends I would have been finished it awhile ago.

I was handling weapons by the 2nd weekend. However that was because we had to go to Petawawa early in the course to get qualified so I guess that made us a bit different.

 

[Jungle]

OK, thanks for clarifying this...

 

[CL84]

I did a BMQ, it was in high school co-op though. Not hard at all! There were alot of people who were complaining all the time about how hard drill was and stuff, when really, it‘s not hard if you just listen and do it. Drill is boring? I think drill is pretty cool when it‘s done right, if you are unmotivated and bored, and doing a weekend bmq then I think you got problems. If you don‘t like it, quit, you can always get a civy job at McDonalds or something, no drill there and flipping burgers is so much cooler than learning drill and learning about weapons.

 

[GhostRecce]

just stick with it. basic is not the most exciting course but it will get better as time goes on. then after basic all the "fun" stuff starts

 

[L/MCpl_Argyll_ Kurrgan]

Hey Paul, I can get the instructor to step it up a notch if you want. Make it more interesting. Just give me some suggestions and I‘ll inform them. They are all good friends of mine. Especially MCpl Marczewski...

 

[Infanteer]

It‘s 20 days, if it was 4 weekends I would have been finished it awhile ago.

...and you wonder why there is such a divide between the reg force and the reserves now.

Hi, I spent 10 weeks in St Jean.

Hi, I spent 20 days in my armoury, spread out over 6 months, going home every night.

Getting rid of RESO Phase was a big step back for the Militia.