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Mr. James recalls how during basic training in Toronto, a new air force recruit embarrassed the drill instructor by accepting his challenge to get the other recruits to march properly.
Transcription
Interviewer: When you got to Toronto, what happened then?
Well, we had four weeks basic training at Manning Depot, and I, I will tell you one humourous story. I don't think many in the air force were adept at drill because it was not the most important part of our training. And we weren't doing too well on some of the marching. And we had a corporal, disciplinarian, and he used to get somewhat aggravated at us. And one of the fellas in our flight made a rather disparaging remark to the corporal. And he said, "If you can do any better, you come up and try." What he didn't know was the fella had been a drill instructor in the army before he went into the air force. And somehow or another, we sensed the difference and we, we marched like Veterans. And I think the corporal could have crawled into a hole. But I always remember that. It was so funny.