cosmoking said:
But I still have to say that once I got a chance to set my foot in St-Jean, I would be very confident to show you how I go all the way through with A+ and be an Elite soldier
and to be as good as all of you guys. And by then, the only thing you will say to me is "I have to admit that you are one of the best soldier I have ever known of".
The problem here is, in part, that you are judging the basic training from Basic Up, a program produced by the CF to give some insight into BMQ. They don't sugarcoat it, but they simply cannot show most of what happens. This is what happens when you compress a few months of training into 15 episodes lasting 23:50 each.
The information shown there is good, and certainly able to somewhat guide a potential recruit as to some of what they will face. However, you are seeing a limited amount of what is done. You don't feel the early morning wake up and PT, or death by PowerPoint, or meticulous inspections, or being yelled at for f***ing up something you would otherwise think of as insignificant. You only see it. Seeing and doing are two very different things. Simply put, you are not qualified to tell people it would be easy without having done it. I have a few friends who decided to enrol and said from the outset it would be easy. Of these, most took a VR.
I personally have watched both seasons of the series, to help give myself a bit of insight as to how BMQ is run and what is done there, in part since I am currently applying to join the naval reserves as a Log O (who do IAP/BOTC as NOTC Venture, and it is very similar, albeit not identical, to the IAP/BOTC run at St. Jean) (a different course, but with several common topics and themes). I am trying to learn from it, but I don't take it as everything there is; this is simply wrong.
It's either that, or you are supremely arrogant and overconfident in your abilities...