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Monday June 17, 1200 Hours
The Queen’s Own Rifles get some quality training this morning. Upon arrival at the NBC training site, instructors review NBC basics like how to react to nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. All personnel don their full chemical protective suit and file into the gas chamber by squads. Each man must remove his protective mask and attempt to sing the Canadian National Anthem in the CS gas and then, when he can feels like he is going to die, he steps briskly from the building, waving his arms while snot hangs down to his knees and his friends have a good laugh at him.
Next is decontamination procedures and how to operate a chemical alarm. Practice how to perform first aid in an NBC environment and how to take a dump with full protective suit. A truck carrying MREs arrives. It also has radios and SOI – each squad signs for a SINCGARS radio and a paper SOI. NBC training continue with sending NBC reports via radio with pro-mask. One more time in the gas chamber for everyone and then instructions arrive over the radio. The Queen’s Own Rifles begin the 2.5 mile march to the bayonet assault course.
Over at the small arms and machine gun ranges, ROD 7th Infantry is blasting away, firing M4s, M16s, M249s, M240s, and a variety of pistols. Each man is rotating through the ranges to include 300 meter qualification range, pop up range, and familiarization ranges. The War Eagles will remain at the range firing all day and all night.
The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion began he day at the lake, conducting water survival training, building poncho rafts, crossing water obstacles, and soaring off of the rappel tower. This afternoon they begin land navigation.
The brave sons of Mahishmati spent the morning conducting common skills training. Basic soldiering skills to include first aid, using a radio, sending reports, and a little combatives training because some of them were not paying attention. This afternoon they are heading to the obstacle course.
Below is a photo of the ROD 7th Infantry Battalion road marching to the range complex.
The Queen’s Own Rifles get some quality training this morning. Upon arrival at the NBC training site, instructors review NBC basics like how to react to nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. All personnel don their full chemical protective suit and file into the gas chamber by squads. Each man must remove his protective mask and attempt to sing the Canadian National Anthem in the CS gas and then, when he can feels like he is going to die, he steps briskly from the building, waving his arms while snot hangs down to his knees and his friends have a good laugh at him.
Next is decontamination procedures and how to operate a chemical alarm. Practice how to perform first aid in an NBC environment and how to take a dump with full protective suit. A truck carrying MREs arrives. It also has radios and SOI – each squad signs for a SINCGARS radio and a paper SOI. NBC training continue with sending NBC reports via radio with pro-mask. One more time in the gas chamber for everyone and then instructions arrive over the radio. The Queen’s Own Rifles begin the 2.5 mile march to the bayonet assault course.
Over at the small arms and machine gun ranges, ROD 7th Infantry is blasting away, firing M4s, M16s, M249s, M240s, and a variety of pistols. Each man is rotating through the ranges to include 300 meter qualification range, pop up range, and familiarization ranges. The War Eagles will remain at the range firing all day and all night.
The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion began he day at the lake, conducting water survival training, building poncho rafts, crossing water obstacles, and soaring off of the rappel tower. This afternoon they begin land navigation.
The brave sons of Mahishmati spent the morning conducting common skills training. Basic soldiering skills to include first aid, using a radio, sending reports, and a little combatives training because some of them were not paying attention. This afternoon they are heading to the obstacle course.
Below is a photo of the ROD 7th Infantry Battalion road marching to the range complex.
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redleg
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You were horrified? Does the New Canadian Army not conduct gas chamber training? You all are missing out on some good times! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lrFAttMoGs
We won't be discussing the Canadian bayonet doctrine this week - instead we're teaching you how to kill someone with a bayonet. And beyond that, we are teaching you how to embrace lethality and make it pat of your identity as an infantryman. For the bayonet assault course you are doing bayonet drills - swinging that bad boy until you can't move your arms, and then you go through the course itself. We are teaching you the 4 bayonet attack moves: butt stroke, thrust, slash, and smash.
You'll be climbing over walls, crawling under wire and through steel tubes, and negotiating ditches - all with a razor sharp bayonet attached to the end of your rifle. And you'll use that bayonet to butt stroke, thrust, slash, and smash old tires and sandbags throughout the course.
We won't be discussing the Canadian bayonet doctrine this week - instead we're teaching you how to kill someone with a bayonet. And beyond that, we are teaching you how to embrace lethality and make it pat of your identity as an infantryman. For the bayonet assault course you are doing bayonet drills - swinging that bad boy until you can't move your arms, and then you go through the course itself. We are teaching you the 4 bayonet attack moves: butt stroke, thrust, slash, and smash.
You'll be climbing over walls, crawling under wire and through steel tubes, and negotiating ditches - all with a razor sharp bayonet attached to the end of your rifle. And you'll use that bayonet to butt stroke, thrust, slash, and smash old tires and sandbags throughout the course.
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MechCommander
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The Canadian Army does Train there troops to use Gas Masks in the event of a Chemical attack, but we would never deliberately expose our recruits to gas as part of there training that would be downright detrimental, thats hardly considered a good time.
bayonet training
Meanwhile at the training course, the Queens Own Rifles starts to charge straight into the first set of sandbags ramming there bayonets into them before knocking it over with the butt stroke, at the climbing wall they start to pile up as groups of Canadian soldiers start to climbing up the wall some fell down to the ground and nearly skewered on there own bayonets, at the tires they began to start stabbing wildly at the old tires, at the steel tubes some groups of soldiers got stuck trying to crawl into the pipe, they got through the wires and ditches no problem, at the end of the course the men where tired and exhausted, some vomited from the previous Gas chamber training.
bayonet training
Meanwhile at the training course, the Queens Own Rifles starts to charge straight into the first set of sandbags ramming there bayonets into them before knocking it over with the butt stroke, at the climbing wall they start to pile up as groups of Canadian soldiers start to climbing up the wall some fell down to the ground and nearly skewered on there own bayonets, at the tires they began to start stabbing wildly at the old tires, at the steel tubes some groups of soldiers got stuck trying to crawl into the pipe, they got through the wires and ditches no problem, at the end of the course the men where tired and exhausted, some vomited from the previous Gas chamber training.
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redleg
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Monday June 17, 1900 Hours
As evening sets in the tired infantrymen receive a pleasant surprise in the form of a hot dinner. Okay, so it’s a T-ration dinner, but it’s still hot and the troops are actually given some time to sit down and enjoy their meal, rather than choking down an MRE while on the move, as was the case for breakfast and lunch. Medical personnel make the rounds checking on the troops, paying particular attention to the feet. They give out some motrin and some moleskin, but overall no major medical concerns.
Ad dinner wraps up the empty t-rat tins are loaded back onto the trucks that they came on and the radios crackle to life. After using the SOI to authenticate the transmission, all units receive their night mission. ROD 7th Infantry, who has been on the range all day, will stay at the range for night live firing (and perhaps harassment by the OCs). The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion has been on the land navigation course all afternoon, and they will also remain in place for night land nav.
The troops from Canada and Mahishmati, having completed their afternoon training cycle, will conduct night time patrols. They will depart their current locations at 2030 hours and move by squads and platoons to establish patrol bases in the forest. From there, they will receive additional instructions for follow-on missions. Canadian and Mahishmati troops will fit MILES gear to their weapons, helmets, and load bearing equipment. Blank adapters go onto all muzzles. OCs will conduct a 100% inspection to ensure that no live ammunition is going out on the lanes (everyone will dump their ruck sacks twice by the time the green light is given and the mission is cleared to proceed). There may or may not be OPFOR out there….be ready men!
As evening sets in the tired infantrymen receive a pleasant surprise in the form of a hot dinner. Okay, so it’s a T-ration dinner, but it’s still hot and the troops are actually given some time to sit down and enjoy their meal, rather than choking down an MRE while on the move, as was the case for breakfast and lunch. Medical personnel make the rounds checking on the troops, paying particular attention to the feet. They give out some motrin and some moleskin, but overall no major medical concerns.
Ad dinner wraps up the empty t-rat tins are loaded back onto the trucks that they came on and the radios crackle to life. After using the SOI to authenticate the transmission, all units receive their night mission. ROD 7th Infantry, who has been on the range all day, will stay at the range for night live firing (and perhaps harassment by the OCs). The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion has been on the land navigation course all afternoon, and they will also remain in place for night land nav.
The troops from Canada and Mahishmati, having completed their afternoon training cycle, will conduct night time patrols. They will depart their current locations at 2030 hours and move by squads and platoons to establish patrol bases in the forest. From there, they will receive additional instructions for follow-on missions. Canadian and Mahishmati troops will fit MILES gear to their weapons, helmets, and load bearing equipment. Blank adapters go onto all muzzles. OCs will conduct a 100% inspection to ensure that no live ammunition is going out on the lanes (everyone will dump their ruck sacks twice by the time the green light is given and the mission is cleared to proceed). There may or may not be OPFOR out there….be ready men!
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The Canadians as a whole platoon began to move into the forest to setup there patrol base, once there they will wait for additional instructions from the ROD, once they made camp they get there C7 rifles checked out by Colt Canada licensed army technicians attached to the platoons HQ company, the MILES gear is something completely new to the Canadian soldiers, its kinda funny looking with it on, the soldiers then huddles around by the small camp fires and talk about the events that happened today, some where still shaky from the Gas chamber training as that was something they did not expect to happen, others wondered what this "OPFOR" the ROD spoke of over the radio, at the officers tent, the Canadian officers looks at each other with the MILES gear over there fancy uniforms and says that it looks ridiculous, but its part of this training mission so they have to deal with it, right now they will have to plan out over how to overcome whatever it is there dealing with for the night mission.
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redleg
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No fires! No tents! Ruck up, men we're moving again! If you want to keep the OCs from throwing CS grenades at you then maintain noise and light discipline. This is a tactical exercise so you need to be ready for action at all times. The instructors will assist you on setting up a patrol base, but in a nutshell is is everyone laying on the ground in a perimeter. If you are in position long enough you can dig some trenches to poop in, but tou won't be syationary for very long.
OPFOR is the opposition force - the bad guys. They are rhe ones that will be shooting at you.
Plan to move several times tonight. You might get a few hours of sleep, but rhe PSYOP team is out blasting music through some.massive speakers. They stop rhe music every now and then to question your manhood, or to tell you that some other dude is knee deep in your girl back home.
OPFOR is the opposition force - the bad guys. They are rhe ones that will be shooting at you.
Plan to move several times tonight. You might get a few hours of sleep, but rhe PSYOP team is out blasting music through some.massive speakers. They stop rhe music every now and then to question your manhood, or to tell you that some other dude is knee deep in your girl back home.
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redleg
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Tuesday June 18, 0600 Hours
It was a long night for the troops from Canada and Mahishmati. The patrol bases moved twice during the night, splitting into squad-sized patrol bases with the first move, and then consolidating into platoon-sized patrol bases with the second. The OPFOR probed some of the patrol bases last night, but no contact was made and the OCs decided to focus on patrol base fundamentals rather than combat drills. The PSYOP loudspeakers were going until about 0230 harassing the troops as they tried to sleep.
Stand-to was at 0430 and resupply was at 0530. Another MRE breakfast today and then the units move to the day’s training. For the Queen’s Own Rifles, that entails a 3-mile road march to the range complex. They will be at the range all day and all night conducting weapons qualification and familiarization for rifles, pistol, and machine guns. They will also fire their Boys AT rifles and some other heavy weapons.
ROD 7th Infantry is heading to the LZ for common task training this morning, and Mahishmati troops are starting at the lake. The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion is heading to the gas chamber for NBC training!
Pictured here are troops from the ROD 7th Infantry Battalion conducting weapons assembly and functions test for time at the common task training site.
It was a long night for the troops from Canada and Mahishmati. The patrol bases moved twice during the night, splitting into squad-sized patrol bases with the first move, and then consolidating into platoon-sized patrol bases with the second. The OPFOR probed some of the patrol bases last night, but no contact was made and the OCs decided to focus on patrol base fundamentals rather than combat drills. The PSYOP loudspeakers were going until about 0230 harassing the troops as they tried to sleep.
Stand-to was at 0430 and resupply was at 0530. Another MRE breakfast today and then the units move to the day’s training. For the Queen’s Own Rifles, that entails a 3-mile road march to the range complex. They will be at the range all day and all night conducting weapons qualification and familiarization for rifles, pistol, and machine guns. They will also fire their Boys AT rifles and some other heavy weapons.
ROD 7th Infantry is heading to the LZ for common task training this morning, and Mahishmati troops are starting at the lake. The ROD Almost Infantry Battalion is heading to the gas chamber for NBC training!
Pictured here are troops from the ROD 7th Infantry Battalion conducting weapons assembly and functions test for time at the common task training site.
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Weapons range
After there grueling 3 mile march to the training area, the queens own rifles set themselves up at the firing range, once again the soldiers hands over there weapons to the platoons Colt Canada licenced technicians to check there C7 rifles, colt pistols, and there only two heavy weapons the FN MAG, and the old Boys AT rifles. Once that is done, the first group of Canadian infantry formed a firing line on the targets the Canadian officer in charge ordered them to take aim and fire on the targets at the range at full auto, spraying the targets until the magazines are empty, then the heavy weapons moved up into there own firing line, FN MAGs and Boys AT Rifles fire peppering the next set of targets as well. This process repeats themselves until night fall.
After there grueling 3 mile march to the training area, the queens own rifles set themselves up at the firing range, once again the soldiers hands over there weapons to the platoons Colt Canada licenced technicians to check there C7 rifles, colt pistols, and there only two heavy weapons the FN MAG, and the old Boys AT rifles. Once that is done, the first group of Canadian infantry formed a firing line on the targets the Canadian officer in charge ordered them to take aim and fire on the targets at the range at full auto, spraying the targets until the magazines are empty, then the heavy weapons moved up into there own firing line, FN MAGs and Boys AT Rifles fire peppering the next set of targets as well. This process repeats themselves until night fall.
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redleg
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Tuesday June 18, 1700 Hours
The Canadians appear to be enjoying the range day, despite being very tired from the patrols last night. All personnel have fired their primary weapons and the crew served weapons are getting a workout as well. The afternoon was filled with fun things like shooting with the protective mask on and shooting with foreign weapons. Once all troops fired, they conducted weapons maintenance (every infantryman is expected to be able to disassemble his own weapon, service it, and reassemble it). After that the grunts shot some more. You can never get enough range time!
After some hot food again this evening the range will transition to night firing. Everything that was completed during the day will be completed at night with low visibility. In addition personnel will fire with night vision devices. Police cars are arriving at the range now so that the troops can engage targets by the light of flashing red and blue emergency lights.
Mahishmati will complete night land navigation tonight, and both ROD battalions will begin their night patrolling odyssey. The ROD troops are quite used to night patrolling and patrol base activities so the OCs will most certainly be hard on them and the OPFOR is sure to make an appearance.
The Canadians appear to be enjoying the range day, despite being very tired from the patrols last night. All personnel have fired their primary weapons and the crew served weapons are getting a workout as well. The afternoon was filled with fun things like shooting with the protective mask on and shooting with foreign weapons. Once all troops fired, they conducted weapons maintenance (every infantryman is expected to be able to disassemble his own weapon, service it, and reassemble it). After that the grunts shot some more. You can never get enough range time!
After some hot food again this evening the range will transition to night firing. Everything that was completed during the day will be completed at night with low visibility. In addition personnel will fire with night vision devices. Police cars are arriving at the range now so that the troops can engage targets by the light of flashing red and blue emergency lights.
Mahishmati will complete night land navigation tonight, and both ROD battalions will begin their night patrolling odyssey. The ROD troops are quite used to night patrolling and patrol base activities so the OCs will most certainly be hard on them and the OPFOR is sure to make an appearance.
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After the Canadians fired all of their weapons they handed them over to the Licensed technicians in the HQ company to began dissembling, servicing and reassembling the platoons weapons before handing them back to the infantryman for the night fighting portion, the soldiers have never seen or used Night Vision goggles before so it would be an odd experience for sure.
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