Thursday, 28 July 2005 (11 photos)
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Breakfast with Alpha Company's 3 Platoon on alpine expedition (Photo: Lt Amanda Jones)
Heading out on the climb up Mt Grimface (Photo: Lt Amanda Jones)
A break on the hike (Photo: Lt Amanda Jones)
Winning drill team from 29 Platoon, Basic Marksman Course being presented with their medals by Captain G. Brunskill on awards parade. (Photo: Capt Keri Moore).
Back at camp late afternoon, Echo Company's 22 Platoon is briefed by C/Sgt Stephanie Jennens on the rest of the evening's timings after swim parade.
Inside Echo's barracks. Barracks' life is just one of many aspects of camp life. The positive aspects learned here will stay with a cadet for his or her whole life.
A few pairs of freshly shined boots belong to cadet in Delta Company 17 platoon.
Cdt Megan Roycroft 1838 Royal Westminster Regiment RC(Army)CC, Maple Ridge, BC, polishes her boots while waiting for her turn at the weekly platoon commander's interview. Cdt Roycroft is in 17 Platoon Delta Company taking the Cadet Leader Course.
Delta Company, 17 Platoon Commander 2Lt Brad McRobert interviews Cdt Megan Dezoete 3061 1 Combat Engineer Regiment RC(Army)CC, Morinville, AB.
Cdts Daniel Sugden 903 British Columbia Dragoons RC(Army)CC, Kelown, BC; John Cridland 2136 Canadian Scottish Regiment RC(Army)CC, Victoria, BC, Ryan Collins 1705 British Columbia Dragoons RC(Army)CC, Vernon, BC; Tyler Davidson 2716 Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) RC(Army)CC, Mayerthorpe, AB and Anthony Bowden 3080 1 Combat Engineer Regiment RC(Army)CC, Burns Lake, BC; on their way back to their quarters after studying for the NSCE lectures. All are members of Guard Company, 31 Platoon.
C/CSM Stephanie Therrien is Delta Company's Sergeant Major. She is spending her first summer at Vernon but is no stranger to the cadet program. She spent the first 5 years of her cadet career with 2647 Royal Canadian Regiment RC(Army)CC in Oromocto, New Brunswick and has recently transferred to 2289 Royal Canadian Artillery RC(Army)CC in Victoria, BC. Previously she spent 5 summers as a course and staff cadet at Argonaut ACSTC in Gagetown, NB. She finds the biggest difference between Vernon and Argonaut is the amount of trees and shade in Vernon compared to the complete lack of trees and shade in Argonaut. "This camp is much more beautiful with so many flowers and bushes" She commented. The greatest impact cadets has had on her life is that it taught her English, a francophone child until joining cadets at age 13, she started learning English from her friends in 2647 RC(Army)CC and at camp. "I was failing English in school until cadets, then during cadets, I improved and passed the class at school. Cadets is the only reason I'm fully bilingual"
A Coy - in Camp, 3 Pt on Alpine Mtn, 4 Plt on Shuswap River canoe FTX
B Coy - in Camp
C Coy - in field Bennett's Ranch
D Coy - in Camp
E Coy - in Camp
F Coy - in field Bennett's Ranch
G Coy - in camp
Today's weather: Max Temp.34.3c Min Temp. 14.8c sunny light breeze late in day
This day in Canadian Military History...
28 July 1918
One hundred and fifty men from the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) launch a successful raid on the German trenches in the Vimy sector of the front.
28 July 1943
Canadian troops clear the Sicilian town of Agira after heavy fighting in and around the heights of Monte Crapuzza. Troops from the Seaforth Highlanders enter the town to a warm reception from the local population, but sniper and machine-gun fire persist from the retreating Germans.
