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Although at times Ms. Dupuis thought about quitting, she shares the reality and importance of not letting the team down and finding strength to carry on.
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
At times I wanted to quit to tell you the truth. It happened a few times, I was thinking, “I can’t,” but then I was not the only one on the site so if I quit then maybe they quit and everybody quits so you can’t. I would have felt that I let down the team because that is what we are, a big team, a big family. So that’s why I kept on going. I was thinking also the stress and the adrenalin, while you’re there, it kept me going. But when I got home, things got harder because I guess that stress and adrenalin went down and then all the nightmares and the stress and stuff like that kicked in.
You can’t go through this alone so it’s really important to feel that bond with the other members of the team. So I know I developed great bonds with a lot of the people over there and you need each other.
Interviewer: And we so often hear that, it’s a bond that unless you are in it, you can’t explain it.
Exactly, you don’t get along with everybody but then when it’s down to the work. I see it as brothers and sisters, even though you are not always on the same page then at the end of the day you have this bond.