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Ms. Dupuis speaks about her decision to joining the Armoured Corps and the obstacles that she faced.
Natacha Dupuis
Natacha Dupuis est née en 1979 à Longueuil, au Québec. Elle a depuis un jeune âge démontré un intérêt envers la vie militaire. À 18 ans, elle s’enrôle dans la réserve avec les blindés. Elle déménage pour joindre le British Columbia Regiment. Elle accepte ensuite de joindre la Force régulière avec les Royal Canadian Dragoons où elle s’entraîne sur les chars Leopard et ensuite sur le véhicule Coyote. Madame Dupuis a été déployée en Bosnie et deux fois en Afghanistan.
Transcription
When I joined the reserve I joined as a crewman and there was a bit more female in the reserve than in the regular forces and when I wanted to join, all the men were trying to discourage me to join the regular force saying it was more of a male job and stuff like that but I didn’t let it change my mind and I joined. But, of course, it was hard at times because it is mainly men. Every time I went somewhere, I was the only or maybe we were two out of one hundred so it got, it’s hard sometimes because you gotta think too being a female in the Armoured Corps then you’re on patrol and you know all those female needs, it gets in the way sometimes and you have sometimes the people that don’t think you should be there and giving you a hard time and stuff like that.