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Although excited to deploy, Ms. Dupuis recalls the devastated surroundings and culture shock when first arriving in Bosnia.
Natacha Dupuis
Natacha Dupuis est née en 1979 à Longueuil, au Québec. Elle a depuis un jeune âge démontré un intérêt envers la vie militaire. À 18 ans, elle s’enrôle dans la réserve avec les blindés. Elle déménage pour joindre le British Columbia Regiment. Elle accepte ensuite de joindre la Force régulière avec les Royal Canadian Dragoons où elle s’entraîne sur les chars Leopard et ensuite sur le véhicule Coyote. Madame Dupuis a été déployée en Bosnie et deux fois en Afghanistan.
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It was really exciting for me to go to Bosnia. Of course when you get there it’s a bit of a culture shock being a European country that was coming out of the war at my time in Bosnia. It was more a stabilization mission that I did and so but everything was destroyed. You know my first drive to the camp I was looking around and I was seeing all these houses with holes and all destroyed and people, it was a bit sad to see. For the temperature and stuff it was not such a difference, of course the people had different religions and stuff like that, you know, they had Muslims there. I remember around our camp there was those mosques, I remember there were three mosques and at all times during the day they were praying and it was really loud and stuff. And the people were a bit different, of course, coming out of war, they were poor and stuff like that.