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Description
Mr. Dupuis deploys to Afghanistan and explains the differences in living conditions and environment to what she had previously experienced.
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.
Transcription
Going to Bosnia I was not so scared, you know, but going to Afghanistan was another story. My first mission I deployed as a replacement for someone that had passed away over there so it was difficult, you know, to get into the shoes of someone that passed on; get to the troop that just had that terrible loss. And so I did two months. It went well though for me, I did the end of the mission with them and I was lucky enough during that Roto that things went as good as it can get in Afghanistan. My first Roto we were living in a big open tent on little cots and we were all one beside each other so there is no privacy or anything like that. It gets really hot in a tent in Afghanistan. At 6:30 in the morning there’s no sleeping in because it gets so hot that you got to get up. And so stuff like that was a bit different. Again, I was the only female within that troop but you get used to it, you know, and they get used to you too so there’s, you know, I just act like them. I don’t go around the corner to change, I change and they look away and that’s it.