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Dustin Tegart, if I remember correctly.

I went in 1997, and we were the only 2 from BC.

692 is so bad..

no you

it's gotten a lot better since you left 655 haha

lol things havent changed 692 and 655 bickering hehe

655 and 692 lol

609 is where it's at

lol 655... quite a number of characters from that squadron

I remember Q. Stevens, S.Dillion, D. Chan ... band ppl I think they're all officers now

I remember back in the days...

before the world of CHAP. The first cadets to receive CHAP training were during the summer of '99 - at all the CSTC's. So many issues that summer, things being blown out of proportion, cadets and staff cadets being sent home for little issues. Of course, these things are ironed out now.

That being said, I remember how physical discipline was given out in a way which promoted teamwork, and motivation. I was a young cadet at 12, and had just received my uniform. My Sec Comd had taught me how to iron my tunic/trousers and polish my boots, but of course, there were always those weeks where "I forgot". My CSM was doing the inspection and came up to me. She saw that my uniform was not up to standard, and instead of yelling at me, which was exactly what I expected, she just asks who was my Section Commander. Sgt Alveraz - I still remember. She points to him and says, Sgt, one lap of the Parade Square please. And while you were all parading on tiny parade squares, of course, the Seaforth Armoury is a decent sized place. If you had a few cadets in your section that didn't do their uniform properly, you'll be tired after the opening inspection.

When you see someone else take punishment for your wrongdoing, you feel much more ashamed. I wasn't just a failure in my own sense, I had let down my Section Commander. In the field, when we were on a ruck march, if I couldn't carry my weight, my Section Commander was the one who would lighten my pack by grabbing my extremely heavy sleeping bag, or even grabbing my entire pack and carry it himself. These are things you never forget as a kid.

The only issue is that if you don't have the good Senior NCO's that I had, I would have been the 12 yr old kid doing pushups on the Parade Square. Just glad I had the good ones leading me.

Caber Feidh Gu Brath!

Stevens is a Capt now (forget which squadron, but I know he's movements officer for Alberthead), and Chan is a 2LT

quinn stevens.. oh god.. what a character!

135 challenger
left as sgt.
i wonder how 135 is doing nowadays...back when i was still there, we won drill comp at least 6 years in a row

2381 irish fusiliers

was only in it for a couple yrs and left as a fusilier

wish i had taken it more seriously.. could've learned so much

what years were you in?

Fair number of Air/Army/Sea Cadets. But you know what there's probably far more of on RS?

Space cadets. You heard it right here.

prob around 98-99.. what about you?

how do you go about working at a cadet core? do you have to part of the actual military family or are you employed as a civilian?

I am just a civilianvolunteer myself. As 609 was a peeloff from 655 (the squadron I was in as a cadet), the CO and some of their senior staff knew me pretty well already. I pretty much walked in one night and just expressed my interest in helping them out as an assistant training officer
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really, lol
HMMMMM

655 gave up on drill comp long ago, i just know they won the 1 year and lose again the next.

Took first for 2006 and 2007.

wow... so is this what band is like now in cadets? wheres the professionalism... and where's the drum major skills? That would NEVER happen before.

for the most part, only the *bad* DM's do that

just speaking the truth. the good ones, the ones that get gold, just stick with being pro

i should upload my HD one... that was IMO a bit overboard. props for creativity though

so all those civilian adults that were around were volunteers??

there's civilian volunteers and civilian instructors

volunteers are the ones that just drop in and don't really even need to fill out paperwork. instructors actually have to go through a lengthy "recruitment" process where they have requirements, paperwork, etc etc

man band comp shud never be like that this is the military not some highschool marching band for me i can admit i was a band rat and was proud to be a pipe drummer mil bands sucks pipeband all the way