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In basic training in Calgary at the age of 16 years, Mr. Nickerson remembers the others who were in training with him as well as their non-commissioned officers and instructors.
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Most of the NCOs were Second World War Veterans and they expected a lot from you and pushed you pretty hard because I guess through their experience they knew what was coming, somewhere down the road, and they wanted you to be prepared for it. It was a bit of a shock. A bunch of young fellows that probably hadn't had all that much discipline prior to joining the service and you sort of got it in great big hunks, and it was, but it was interesting.
Interviewer: What do you remember about the other young men that were with you in basic training?
Well, there was a pretty a, we were a pretty mixed lot. A lot of them were younger fellows. A lot of them were Second World War Veterans, and they could, they had joined up for Korea and they were older. Some of them got in during the end of the Second World War and that, so they just had to pretty well take a refresher and that, they weren't really recruits, per se and that, they were a good bunch of guys.