navyguy28 said:
anyone here about how it is in borden???????? what the difference is between instructors in other places or maybe some people to watch out for... Feel free to email me...
Navyguy
Forging Canadian soldiers
Forging Canadian soldiers
Dec. 17, 2006. 07:30 AM
ANDREW CHUNG
STAFF REPORTER
Silent in their misery and surviving on dangerously little sleep, the troops head out of their green canvas tent and into the blackness of the night.
They've just been screamed at by their commander, who's enraged by what he considers their lethargic response to the generators that have conked out, again, taking the front gate lights with them, leaving the camp blind and compromised.
It's 4:40 a.m. They are so tired that one private's eyes remain closed even as he begins to move. Another downs his wake-up potion: a pack of coffee crystals, a pack of whitener and a swig from his camouflage flask. The brittle cold, minus 15 degrees with the wind chill, hits them like a hard slap. The snow is cascading from the dark sky.
As they tend to the flooded generators, two obscured figures emerge from behind the curtain of snow.
"Go to hell, Canada! Get out of our country!" says the larger of the two with a Middle Eastern accent. He's still but a shadow, yet his billowing thoub and turban are visible to the now wide-eyed troops, who quickly mass at the gate and bring their fully automatic C7 rifles into both hands.
The man and his partner try to get inside the gate, but are blocked. "Stay back, sir!" yells Chase Miller, a 21-year-old private from Ottawa, brandishing his rifle, his eyes glued to the unwanted guest.
"F**k Canada! Allah Akhbar!" the man repeats, Arabic for "God is Great." "Infidels! I have bomb. I will kill you all!" he roars. As he begins to open his colourful cloak, and a bomb pack can be made out behind the fabric, Miller and the others open fire.
But it's not over. While the man lies writhing on the soft snow, the other reaches for the bomb at his friend's waist. He's riddled with bullets as well.
"Pretty intense," Miller says, shaking his head after the gun smoke clears.
If not for the fact that minutes later you see the two suicide bombers driving themselves away, you could mistake the blanks for real bullets, and think the event at the camp gate was occurring along the stark plains of Afghanistan.
But this isn't Kandahar, where Canadian soldiers are currently dying at a rate higher than any other NATO force in the war-torn country. Instead, it's a remote corner of Canadian Forces Base Borden, about 90 kilometres north of Toronto.
And this is the new Canadian boot camp.
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