20 Questions - The Young Soldier

Please provide: Name, rank achieved, years of service with The RCR (from - to)

1. What year were you recruited?

2. Where did you take your basic training and how many weeks did the course run?

3. Where did you take your basic infantry training and many weeks did the course run?

4. What weapons were you trained to use on your basic infantry training?

5. What training events do you best remember from your basic infantry training course?

6. When were you posted to the Regiment, what location were you posted to, and to what Battalion, Company and Platoon?

7. How many men were in your platoon?

8. What vehicles and weapons did the platoon have?

9. How often did you go to a live fire range in a year and what weapons did you fire each year?

10. How many men lived in the same room in the barracks? How much space did you have to yourself?

11. Approximately how many men in your platoon owned a car?

12. In general, what was your daily schedule like in garrison?

13. How often were you inspected; in your room, on the parade square?

14. What was required of you before you could leave the barracks and go downtown?

15. How much were you paid each month as a new Private?

16. How many days leave did you get each year?

17. What did you do each year for an annual fitness test?

18. What was the most useful piece of personal kit you were issued at that time?

19. What was the least useful piece of personal kit you were issued at that time?

20. When the Battalion did a Change of Command parade, how long did you spend on the parade square practicing drill?

And, for extra credit:
21. What was a usual punishment one of your roommates would get for a charge of AWOL?