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Description
Mr. McCue speaks about the changes in training practices, weapon use and transitions made to improve the way Canadian Forces prepared their troops.
Transcription
Training was interesting. When I first joined we were issued the FN
rifle and the SMG (sub machine gun), the Sterling and within that first year it changed from those weapons to the new C7 which was our M16. So we were going through, the forces were going through a modernization phase when we joined and it slowly continued throughout my career. There was much more advancements in technology, equipment, uniforms, it was quite fascinating. You are learning the very best, the very cutting edge training. When we deployed to
Afghanistan we had a new drill come into the Canadian Forces called the gun fighter drill which was a new way of shooting instinctively and it was something that would horrify any of the old sergeant majors that had trained us the traditional way. This was something much different but it was effective lessons learned from the American Army that was brought up to us and it became effective in our own use so it was a fascinating transition over the years.