What happens in basic training is that there's
a lot of psychology that goes into training
people to join the Forces, and what they do
is they take you from being individuals and
start moulding you into being, you know,
looking after each other.
Service before self, country before self,
all these things are being implanted in there.
One of the things I never mentioned before
but I think it's important is that during
World War Two you do your basic training
in Canada, you'd go over to England for your
advanced training and then you'd gointo a theatre.
For Korea was the same thing. They went to
Fort Louis, Washington, and they left from
Fort Louis and went to Japan,
and from Japan into theatre.
Well, in the Canadian Forces, we train here.
We do all our advanced training here, and then
within 48 hours or less we're in theatre.
So the training is as important as the operation.