I'll explain FYOP a bit. It's 3 weeks, where every morning you wake up to some heavy metal, yelling and screaming, doors being kicked and punched at like 0500 in the morning. You get out of your rooms in like 10 seconds and start doing push-ups or planks while waiting for the slow kids. Get used to sleeping on top of your made bed. You need to make your beds and tidy your rooms if necessary after you go to sleep, so do it fast cause you don't get much time to sleep. Put your towel under your door so no light creeps out, close your window blinds, and then cover your peek hole on the door if you have one. Personally, I slept in my combats. All except the boots and tunic. So I'd wake up, get out of bed and be ready. You need to shave the night before too, and brush your teeth if you can. Week one sucks. Like really fuckin bad in my opinion. The next two weeks are annoying because you have classes, and after that you have nothing to do cause you don't have homework, you're not allowed to use social media, YouTube, video games, etc. So, do it but don't get caught. The second weeks aren't as bad, but they're annoying. The main thing is, be prepared to do.the same stupid fucking thing over and over and over and over and over. Like, "everyone's shirts must be folded in the next 5 minutes!" and then when they're not they'll pt you, fuck up your shirts, and then make you do it again. So many goddamn times. Also, make sure that your sink is ALWAYS dry. Even if you're gonna be late getting back into the hallway. If you're late in the hall you'll do pt. If your sink is set, they'll "flood" your room which is where you bring every single thing out of your room and on top of your mattress, and then you put it all back to inspection standard within like 20 minutes.
Honestly man I think it's really stupid. I didn't learn a single valuable thing during FYOP other than that I now know I can live through something that shitty. I already knew I could though because I made it through basic. I hope you like it, and I hope you find something valuable in it. Like I said, most people say they enjoy it. I don't know if they're lying to sound cool, or lying to themselves, or both because it was super terrible. Like, I hate having my time wasted so it was just three weeks of me being super pissed off. Idk though, I was older than the people around me and had been out of school a couple years so I guess I just didn't handle kids my age telling me that I sucked at folding shirts, when I knew damn well they had never paid a bill or done their own taxes, very well lmao.
Understand that FYOP was initially implemented because basic training for officer cadets didn't exist. Now it's just a tradition. A bad one. Basically you have to learn when every building on campus was built. You have to know the names.of all the old 18 (the first dudes to ever attend the college, big whoop) in a specific order. You have to learn the name of every squadron, the colour assigned to it, and it's mascot. You have to remember the names of all the Top 5 (Cadet wing commander or CWC, Deputy CWC or DCWC, Cadet wing Training officer or CWTO, Cadet wing admin of. Or CWado, Cadet wing operations of. Or CWOpso). Then you need to know the name of every Cadet Squadron Leader (CSL) and which squadron they're affiliated to, and the same for every CFL (Cadet flight leader). Your days will be spent doing random shit like fitness, beastings for not knowing all the information above, inspection "prep". Oh yes, you are also supposed to know the anthem, the bilingual version. The RMC cheer, and God save the queen. The last two are most important and fairly easy.
1 Squadron: Dark Blue, Spider. 2 Squadron: Red, Griffin. 3 Squadron (Grizzly): Dark Green, Bear. 4 Squadron (Frontenac): Light blue, Shark. 5 Squadron: Crimson, Pheonix. 6 Squadron (Grant): Yellow, Pirate. 7 Squadron (Wolfe): Grey, Wolf. 8 Squadron: Light green, bulldog. 9 Squadron: Orange, Tiger. 10 Squadron (Montcalm): White, Dragon. 11 Squadron (I think it's Hudson): Brown, Deer. 12 Squadron: Purple, Beaver.
Here's the cheer, so you can get a minor heads up. Someone will shout "gimme a beer!" To which everyone will respond "Beer! Esses emma TDV! Who can stop old RMC? Shrapnel, cordite, NCT. R M C HOO-AH!
For the FYOP knowledge portion, If you want to show up prepared. Basically memorize the Cadet ranks, building names, squadron (names, numbers, colours, mascots, barslate), first 18, "God save the queen", other RMC cheers.
