Dp1 Infantry (CAF basic infantry course) Serial: 0155 “Landing in Sicily” 13 weeks long Wainwright January 21st - April 22nd 2024 If you have any questions feel free to type them into the comments and I’ll try my best to answer.
this is great, I am begging you from a perspective of someone who is on the fringe of joining keep making these vids, they rly help showcase a better chapter in the Canadian army (actually fit soldiers) than we are used to seeing.
@@Tribuneoftheplebs my good friend was born and bred for the military, very active, has been body building since 14-15ish, joined soons he got out of high school and me and all his friends knew since young that boy was joining that military and there wasn't much that was gonna change his mind, told me he hates everyday of it and its miserable, of course he likes some bits like this shit and the other fun parts, but for the majority of shit and espically for the pay and everything, he said if he had his time back he'd get a trade but he's already 2 feet deep into CAF so theres no point to turn around now he might as well stay in, but aye up to you, some people want a job experience that doesn't feel like a 9-5, I was gonna join to and was looking into it heavily, was gonna start working out, i already dropped 100 pounds in the last year and I'm at a weight now, but I'm going to become a pipefitter
LOL wait until the social media and public affairs monsters come for this, because they will. Great video but I know they will get upset. Be warned. Awesome video though man
I'll be in basic I think in September. All signed up and ready. 31 M, been a rodbuster for 13 years before this. Very excited to get my chance to serve
@@GoProuser44 Infantry, I'm thinking Mountain Warfare since I grew up hiking and camping in the mountains. I'm completely into survival and bushcraft as a hobby as well. Very interested in what CSOR, SAR Techs or JTF2 do.
@@STATLECTRIC I was thinking Princess Patricia's as well, but I wasn't sure if they were a reserves only unit, since I'm planning to go reg force for at least 3 years. The information available online is very vague, but my ultimate goal is to try to end up back out west at some point.
the M203 range in the winter was a fucking nightmare. back in 2013 anyways, when we had shit tons of snow. -30 out, rounds dont explode, engineer has to go out and inspect each dud. one shot, 30 minute wait in -30
Old Pat vet here. When did they start combining regiments for battle school. Back then Wainwright was just PPCLI battle school. Also was 27 weeks long. Great content. Keep it coming.
@@clonecammandoblue Though i did delay the process a bit by moving to vancouver in december (which took ~2 months for that to get sorted), and i waited another month to get my physio to send them a waiver saying that i was okay. i had a back injury from work.
@@snowboard4life131 Nice man! I went full time so I have no clue where I will end up (hopefully 3rd PPCLI) but I'm coming from a little place called Sarnia 🤘
34m, the hiring process doesn't feel fast enough.. itching to get out there and make a difference. Nice to have some newer content to enjoy in the meantime though!
GOD bless all Canadian Men and Women in the Military. Looking good ! You're all WARRIORS and fighters in my book. I really wish I didn't miss my opportunity to join the Forces when I was younger. Let's just say I lost focus because of a girl and ended up going to college instead after getting my High School Diploma. Moral of the story: "Meeting a girl in school is great when you are young, but NEVER forget or get distracted from what your initial plans or intentions were in life before you had met her."
I was thinking about infantry but I didn't realize the weather conditions especially in winter in other provinces like the snow and weather conditions are way more severe than here in Vancouver. ( I never been out of BC) but anyways interesting videos! Looking forward to joining CAF but maybe in another branch still thinking about it.
Infanteer for over 6years now. Do another trade really. You're not paid better and there's not a lot of valuable deployments lately for infantry. Unless you like reiterating DP1 with foreign troops. Look up for Airforce, plenty of high demand trades that are much more fullfilling. The yearly life of infantry gets to you after a while when there's no combat missions, there's only so much floors you can mop and so much Atropians to take in.
@@Tsusday I was actually originally going to air force then i was thinking infantry but I think i will stick to joining Air Force since I am very interested in aviation and planes I know that there are many trades to pick from Air Force so i will do that.
@@Bassxkitty If you're into travelling a lot AESOP and Traffic tech travel a lot around the globe. Two trades that are usually high demands. It's my only regret that I didn't go airforce, their morale is so much better and their backs aren't busted.
Did you ask staff for permission to film? I am prepared to ask staff and write a memo to the course o if I have to. Let me know how you got permission if you don't mind.
In Wainwright, I casually asked my staff to film before the first range. No memo needed. My staff let me use my own GoPro. If you don’t have one they will issue a crappy one. I just used the GoPro helmet strap and put the GoPro on my helmet that way.
Stay calm in times of chaos, slow down. When they are rushing you to put your gun together in the AM After inspection, slow down think and do it right. It will make you faster. They will try to rush you by yelling and yes you have to be fast but the best way to achieve that is to slow down, be calm and do the task. Become very close with your boys on course. It’s your team and the closer you are with them the better team work you have not only that but it will increase moral which is huge in the field. Have fun enjoy the suffering, play the game. The staff are there to do a job don’t take it personally.
BMQ is pretty boring. Play their game, the staff are going to fuck with you no matter how well you are doing. Become friends with as many people as you can. Utilize teamwork for every task. When they are rushing you to do something don’t panic or be scared. Slow down, calm down and your will be fast, example: they are yelling at the platoon to get ready after inspection, don’t rush and start panicking, slow down, put ur gun together the right way. Grab everything you need for the day. Put all the other items away. Double check ur locks and then help everyone else who is panicking. Have fun it’s a great time looking back on it. Pizza Gino’s is great pizza. The army is fun man would 100% recommend joining if your considering it.
@@chocolates182 they really do, 9 years in 11 Field artillery here and they changed the battlefield for us especially the FOs yet there is no equipment to deal with them on the gun line.....
On the infantry course we don’t use the winter camo as we’re focusing on practicing and learning very basic infantry skills. However, we typically wear winter camo in the snow.
live fire CQB is only reserved for those who do something like going into actual urban ops course, even then im pretty sure you are not yet trusted with live ammunition.
oh yea i saw you guys out there.... some of yall did not know how to fuckin march and it was painfully obvious lmao. but this looks pretty entertaining, in the combat engineer dsp1 we got like one 9 day field ex at the very end, the rest of it was just classrooms and cock for 20 weeks.
dude never talk with that "i was about to join" bs... you were never going to, plus for some trades you would hate it because you will not be respected untill you learn to take the higher ups abuse and play their game.
Dangerously SO. I'm surprized the soldiers are so Naive to this fact. They are not watching the modern battlefield. What are we gonna show up with open topped vehicles and howitzers ....BRO