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I'm Steve, 22/male, living in CFB Shilo. Been surrounded by military my entire life, I guess that makes me an army brat (father is a Warrant of 22 yrs, former RCR when he was a Junior NCO now a Clerk - what a change of pace!) Recently, I've been thinking of going into the infantry.. Many reasons really, for one I would love getting paid to train to be fit and be fit itself, and want a challenging job that will remake me into something more than what I am. And plus I love guns and such (proud owner of two rifles..bolt action though, nothing assault ) I am going in on monday for Interview, Medical and Physical.
I entered as clerk, and may do that a year if my fitness is not up to infantry expectations come January (my estimated time for BMQ).
However, I wanted to clear up some things here about the infantry. Now, with the 2PPCLI here and me working at the gym as a Commissionaire, I've talked with lots of Patricias and I've read so many threads about the infantry on these forums that I've learned quite a lot, but still want to address some things that's been bothering me.
When I told my father I was gonna go infantry, he said "nah, you don't want to live that kind of life" and proceeded to tell me about how it's not a great quality of life, they get **** on repeatedly, treated terribly, etc etc. I know that, being the infantry things are not going to be 5 star comfort rates - but I've never been concerned with that anyhow. What I would just like to know is, what is the attitude and treatment and everything else like in the infantry? I'm well aware of the nature of the beast and how you must take the good with the bad, but generally how are you infanteers treated within your regiments? Are you really treated like crap and always in crap conditions?
Another thing I've gotten conflicting reports on is generally what the career is like. I know that it's always changing and has a broken rhythm to it (from what I've been told at least) but I've heard some guys actually complaining about there not being enough things to do. Some of the Pats around here are complaining that outside their PT training, all they do is maintain equipment and they don't get to do some of the fun stuff they did back up in Kapyong. I assume that a large factor in this is the base you're at and it's funding, but what are you personal experiences? Are you always on the go, or do you find that you operations and soldier training (like, section attacks or going into the field and such, not regular PT) have taken a back seat recently?
One Patricia told me he used to work a dead end job, and he wanted a job with meaning and 2 years ago joined up (he is 25 now). He said he has no regrets and told me to just get out there and sign up instead of sitting and waiting. While I do not want to rush into anything as big as my career blindly, I tend to over-analyze situations. Do you think this was good advice? Would you recommend the same?
I wold like to hear from all the infanteers here.. PPCLI, VanDoo, RCR, whatever, doesn't matter to me. I just wanna clear up a few of these last questions I haven't been able to get answers to in person. Thank you all very much for assisting!
I'm Steve, 22/male, living in CFB Shilo. Been surrounded by military my entire life, I guess that makes me an army brat (father is a Warrant of 22 yrs, former RCR when he was a Junior NCO now a Clerk - what a change of pace!) Recently, I've been thinking of going into the infantry.. Many reasons really, for one I would love getting paid to train to be fit and be fit itself, and want a challenging job that will remake me into something more than what I am. And plus I love guns and such (proud owner of two rifles..bolt action though, nothing assault ) I am going in on monday for Interview, Medical and Physical.
I entered as clerk, and may do that a year if my fitness is not up to infantry expectations come January (my estimated time for BMQ).
However, I wanted to clear up some things here about the infantry. Now, with the 2PPCLI here and me working at the gym as a Commissionaire, I've talked with lots of Patricias and I've read so many threads about the infantry on these forums that I've learned quite a lot, but still want to address some things that's been bothering me.
When I told my father I was gonna go infantry, he said "nah, you don't want to live that kind of life" and proceeded to tell me about how it's not a great quality of life, they get **** on repeatedly, treated terribly, etc etc. I know that, being the infantry things are not going to be 5 star comfort rates - but I've never been concerned with that anyhow. What I would just like to know is, what is the attitude and treatment and everything else like in the infantry? I'm well aware of the nature of the beast and how you must take the good with the bad, but generally how are you infanteers treated within your regiments? Are you really treated like crap and always in crap conditions?
Another thing I've gotten conflicting reports on is generally what the career is like. I know that it's always changing and has a broken rhythm to it (from what I've been told at least) but I've heard some guys actually complaining about there not being enough things to do. Some of the Pats around here are complaining that outside their PT training, all they do is maintain equipment and they don't get to do some of the fun stuff they did back up in Kapyong. I assume that a large factor in this is the base you're at and it's funding, but what are you personal experiences? Are you always on the go, or do you find that you operations and soldier training (like, section attacks or going into the field and such, not regular PT) have taken a back seat recently?
One Patricia told me he used to work a dead end job, and he wanted a job with meaning and 2 years ago joined up (he is 25 now). He said he has no regrets and told me to just get out there and sign up instead of sitting and waiting. While I do not want to rush into anything as big as my career blindly, I tend to over-analyze situations. Do you think this was good advice? Would you recommend the same?
I wold like to hear from all the infanteers here.. PPCLI, VanDoo, RCR, whatever, doesn't matter to me. I just wanna clear up a few of these last questions I haven't been able to get answers to in person. Thank you all very much for assisting!