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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 (30 photos)
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First light 0530 hrs Coutts Common (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
0700 Hrs - C/Sgt Roberta Busch 2294 Service Battalion RC(Army)CC Thunder Bay ON, Bugler Cdt Jim Yu 2472 RC(Army)CC Vancouver BC, C/WO Gillian Warner 2618 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC Prince George BC and 2Lt Maria Lynn take their duty raising the flag (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Bravo Coy morning parade (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Maj Kelly March, officer commanding Bravo Coy, inspects 10 Platoon (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Capt Lisa Landry, training officer Bravo Coy, inspects 9 Platoon (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Week one awards for Bravo Coy - Top cadet for Basic Military Band Cdt Wright, Top cadet for Basic Pipes & Drums Cdt Hanson, Top cadet for CL Military Band Cdt. Yu, Top cadet for CL Pipes & Drums Band Cdt. Curtis. W, Top cadet for CLI Military Band Cdt. Potter, Top cadet for CLI Pipes & D Band Cdt. Zehanoviz, Top staff cadet C/Sgt. McAskile
Week two (not shown) - Top cadet for Basic Military Band Cdt Snowdon, Top cadet for Basic Pipes & Drums Cdt Humeniuk, Top cadet for CL Military Band Cdt. Ho, Top cadet for CL Pipes & Drums Band Cdt. Da Silva. J, Top cadet for CLI Military Band Cdt. Nillson, Top cadet for CLI Pipes & D Band Cdt. Chung (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Top staff cadet Week two C/Sgt. Matthew Riggs 2781 British Columbia Regiment RC(Army)CC Powell River BC (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
One hour east north east of the VACSTC is Sugar Lake Base Camp, home this summer to the adventure training component (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Sugar Lake Camp Sgt Maj Sgt Kim Arnold gives a short briefing to staff of Guard Coy who are at Sugar lake on a recce for their upcoming FTX (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdt Tammika Madden 2822 Royal Westminster Regiment RC(Army)CC Surrey BC challenges the two-rope bridge at the engineering site of Sugar Lake base camp (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
C/Sgt Daralynn Crawford 3064 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC Williams Lake BC starts on the 2-rope bridge (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cadets put together an A-frame under the supervision of Lt Joel Klein (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
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Sugar Lake (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
One of several bivouac sites at the camp (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Alpha Coy 7 Platoon's Cdt Steven Van Berkel 3063 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC Enderby BC dries out his personal kit after training in the water for river rescue (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdts Robyn Vandevord 390 North Saskatchewan Regiment RC(Army)CC Prince Albert SK, Josephine Thomas 1725 Royal Canadian Engineers RC(Army)CC Chilliwack BC, Christine Kelly 2370 Royal Canadian Artillery RC(Army)CC Regina SK and Paige Warren 1726 Canadian Scottish Regiment RC(Army)CC Comox BC, relax after the river rescue training. All are in Alpha Coy 7 Platoon (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Charlie Coy's officer commanding Maj Amadeo Vecchio relax at his his tent before supper (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Another hot day, 39c downtown or on the old Fahrenheit scale... 102f... hot no matter how you look at it. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Back at camp... Cdt Neil Ellwood 3003 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry RC(Army)CC Edgerton AB works on his boots. His trick for getting a good shine "just little bits of polish and a little water" Cdt Ellwood is a member of Guard Coy on his drill & ceremonial course (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
A remarkable talent. Cdt Arthur Rintoul 2887 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC 100 Mile House BC is a gifted young artist. The 16 year old cadet has been drawing for just two years "I just wanted to see if I could shade with a ball point pen", and shading he does! He also uses a needle point pen to great effect. His drawings take on average 10-20 hours to complete, he has however been working on a particularly complicated drawing that took 50 hours. He looks up to Todd McFarlane the artist best known for his work on Spawn, Cdt Rintoul would like to continue drawing but doesn't feel there's a future in it with so much computer animation prevalent these days. Hopefully someone will recognize his amazing ability and eye for detail. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Close up of one of his pieces, the camera hardly does it justice. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdt Samantha Moore 3061 1 Combat Engineer Regiment RC(Army)CC Morinville AB shows off a well polished boot. She's had a lot of practice beginning when she was 8 years old, she got her start helping shine her older brother's boots when he was a member of the corps and she was a navy league cadet. her entire family is militarily connected, her father is soldier at Garrison Edmonton, he mom a 2Lt with her cadet corps, both her older brother sister and brother were cadets as well. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Cdt Cara LaLonde 2887 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC 100 Mile House BC has got a great shine on her boots as well, her secret? "Hours and hours of work and a really good base coat" (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
CSM Tammy Nillson is Guard Coy's CSM and is at her last summer at Vernon as a cadet having spent four summers here and one at Connaught. "It feels different being a CSM, I'm used to a hands-on approach at my home corps, here I don't have as much direct contact with the cadets, I have competent platoon warrants." When asked about her greatest inspiration in cadets, "My dad, he's always pushed me to do my best and to be even better than he was. He's always been there for me giving feedback. I want to make him proud and be proud of myself." CSM Nillson has one more year in her corps before ageing out next June, she's planning on becoming a veterinarian but she hasn't dismissed the idea of joining the CF either. (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
(VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
Last light 2130 hrs - from first photo to last photo today... 16 hours (VACSTC, F. Arseneault)
A Coy - in Camp, 7 Pl in field canoe, bridging, at Sugar lake, 8 Pl rock climbing at Skaha
B Coy - in Camp
C Coy - Sugar Lake FTX
D Coy - in Camp
E Coy - Bennett's Ranch FTX
F Coy - in Camp
G Coy - in camp
Pioneer platoon - in camp
Today's weather: Max Temp. 35c Min Temp. 18c hot & sunny
This day in Canadian Military History...
25 July 1814
Anglo-Canadian and American forces clash at the Battle of Lundy's Lane (Niagara Falls, Ont); an encounter that will be the bloodiest in the war. The two armies attack and counter-attack each other in stifling heat, inflicting a total of 2000 casualties, before the Americans finally decide to withdraw from the field.
25 July 1916
Western Canadians from the 1st British Columbia Regiment detonate a large mine which repulses a German attack on their positions at Mont Sorrel.
