The Beginning of my Career

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The Beginning of my Career

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Well, you know, even now it’s a bit of a blur. A lot of things happened at the time because I had no experience with the military. I was very young at eighteen years old. So I think I told the young officer at the time I just want to be one of those guys that carry a gun and stomp around the bush and he kind of looked at me and said, “Son, have I got a job for you!” So it turned out that the infantry officer was part of the choices and so I chose it without really understanding what trades were there. I just thought that it sounded pretty adventurous, prety cool and so from there we did the paperwork and shortly sometime after that we did the pledge of allegiance. I was then a member of the Canadian Forces and was just waiting for a flight to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia to start recruit training. Interviewer: Specific to the infantry training, what did that entail? Well, is was kind of an expansion on everythng that we did in Cornwallis really but just in far more depth so a lot more musketry, dealing with weapons, marksmanship, basic infantry, combat tactics, communications, reconnaissance patrollng, just all those skill sets that you need from weapons to first aid, to patrolling, to navigation. So all the basic skill sets you would require that would allow you to be operationally deployed with your unit in the field and carry out the duties of an infanteer.

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Having no experience with the military, Mr. Bradley speaks about his desire to join up as an infanteer.

Daniel Bradley

Mr. Daniel Bradley was born June 24, 1958 in Ottawa, Ontario. At 18 years of age, walking by a recruiting centre, Mr. Bradley made an impulsive decision to join the military having a desire for the infantry. Mr. Bradley became a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment holding rank as an infanteer and obtained training at CFB Cornwallis in Trenton, Ontario. After training, Mr. Bradley spent a bit of time In Canada service but in 1978 experienced his first operational deployment to Cyrpus. In 1992 Mr. Bradley was given another opportunity to deploy to Somalia and joined a contingency from the RCR and became part of the Airborne Regiment where he held rank of Chief Warrant Officer. As his military career continued Mr. Bradley was part of an operational to Croatia in 1994, Bosnia in 1997 and more recently 2002/03 travelled to Afghanistan on two different operations, one being Roto O as Company Sergeant Major. Mr. Bradley retired in 2011 with 35 years of military sevice.

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