Training is as important as the operation

What happens in basic training is that there’s a lot of psychology that goes into training people to join the Forces, and what they do is they take you from being individuals and start moulding you into being, you know, looking after each other. Service before self, country before self, all these things are being implanted in there.
One of the things I never mentioned before but I think it’s important is that during World War Two you do your basic training in Canada, you’d go over to England for your advanced training and then you’d go into a theatre. For Korea was the same thing. They went to Fort Louis, Washington, and they left from Fort Louis and went to Japan, and from Japan into theatre. Well, in the Canadian Forces, we train here. We do all our advanced training here, and then within 48 hours or less we’re in theatre. So the training is as important as the operation.