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Posted by Ian Edwards <[email protected]> on Fri, 19 May 2000 17:07:05 -0600
Some cadets on this net and a few more recent members of the PRes
are under the impression that "it was a lot tougher in the old days".
Cadets, for sure, haven‘t got any easier since I transferred to the CIC
then called the CSofC in 1972. Discipline and expectations just vary
from corps to corps then as now.
If some of the "old sweats" on this net who soldiered in the 1950s and
1960s were honest with themselves they will recall being told as
recruitees by their older regimental brothers that "things were much
tougher back in the 1930s, WW2, the early 50s, or whatever". And
soldiering back between the two Big Wars was a piece of cake compared to
the Victorian era. And so on back to the Year 1, when they were all mere
low tech spear carriers. Before recent times take your pick as to when
this began discipline of soldiers was stricter - for one good reason -
to keep soldiers "busy" because an idle soldier got himself in trouble,
drank too much, etc. So the solution was more "Bull" keep him busy with
the blanko, brasso, etc.
The psychologists have a term for this, called "the old oaken bucket
syndrome". Sounds a lot like my dad, age 85, telling us kids when we
were growing up about walking to school the proverbial 5 miles, uphill
both ways, living through the Depression, etc. etc. ad nausium. True,
but so what?
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Some cadets on this net and a few more recent members of the PRes
are under the impression that "it was a lot tougher in the old days".
Cadets, for sure, haven‘t got any easier since I transferred to the CIC
then called the CSofC in 1972. Discipline and expectations just vary
from corps to corps then as now.
If some of the "old sweats" on this net who soldiered in the 1950s and
1960s were honest with themselves they will recall being told as
recruitees by their older regimental brothers that "things were much
tougher back in the 1930s, WW2, the early 50s, or whatever". And
soldiering back between the two Big Wars was a piece of cake compared to
the Victorian era. And so on back to the Year 1, when they were all mere
low tech spear carriers. Before recent times take your pick as to when
this began discipline of soldiers was stricter - for one good reason -
to keep soldiers "busy" because an idle soldier got himself in trouble,
drank too much, etc. So the solution was more "Bull" keep him busy with
the blanko, brasso, etc.
The psychologists have a term for this, called "the old oaken bucket
syndrome". Sounds a lot like my dad, age 85, telling us kids when we
were growing up about walking to school the proverbial 5 miles, uphill
both ways, living through the Depression, etc. etc. ad nausium. True,
but so what?
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