Grande Prairie Army Cadets
 

We are a brand new group and not an official team with only 5 members, and we will gradually build it.we are pretty good at airsofting because of our bit of tactical training we have all had at the edmonton garrison and summer military camps that we go to. we are looking for people in our area to play, so if you can make it to northern lights for a game, email me at bm_35_554@hotmail.com

awesome :!: wut camp?VACSTC? im in army cadets too 2827 Dukes BCR

rad guys i just moved to edmonton from nanaimo BC i used to be a warrant officer in 2422 RCACC C.Scot.R , i dont have a gun right now but id love to join you when i get my new gun(a month to 3 months) i used to lead 2422's patrolling team and i have quite a bit of tactical knowledge.

Hey, you'll find that there are several guys from GP on ASC. I was there last weekend, as well as the Skunkworx crew. NLP may be a tough sell for playing at for the duration of the summer as it's mainly a paintball field, but time will tell.

Welcome to ASC.

one is going to white horse and one is going to rocky mountain house... our rsm is going to vernon as a csm though

one is going to whitehorse and the other is going to rocky mountain house. however alot of poeple from my company are going. our MWO is going to Vernon to be a CSM.

alright fasterbassdrums sounds good, you should get it quick cuz i want to do alot of airsofting:)

please...don't do anything stupid.

Also, I wouldn't make any grandiose claims as to your 'tactical training' around some of these guys who are res/reg force, etc.

wait...Cadets get tactical training?

what ever duff man... i didnt say i was pro at it..

yes we do... not with real weapons but we do night ops and weekend exersises with them

I like pie!!

congrats, do you want a medal? well during our ftx's we have war games, basically like capture the glow stick, which is pretty fun until someone captures you and makes you eat dirt

yeah us too

*PHEW*
Getting kinda hot in here with all this flaming and bragging


<-- Sea Cadet
Petty Officer 1st Class, 341 RCSCC Nipigon

EDIT - If your sig pic is your cadet rank, your only 14 or 15. Im 16 and a PO1 and I cant play... Age limit round here is 18 bud. Thought i would point that out.

1. How many of you are underage? Kind of a problem, since you can't buy your own airsoft guns, etc, need parental consent(etc) to play games an you might not be able to play at certain fields(because of your ages).

2. Cadets DO NOT get any military/paramilitary/tactical or whatever training. You are kids an are NOT soldiers or anything like that. Unless you count map an compass, an maybe hide an seek or whatever as "tactical" training.




I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, just pointing out a few things, especially since I've seen cadets on other forums, an in real life trying to tell people that they are like soldiers an get military training, etc.

Hey Mike, they have their own guns, etc. I've played against them at least once for sure.

They never saw me until it was too late, HaHaHa!!!

*Sigh* I swear sometimes i think people cant even see my posts

.. a friend of mine, Sgt.Daponte (Bravo or Golf company...can't remember), was head of basic tactics(basic,VERY BASIC),weapons training (C7 with 5 rounds only) up in CFB Borden. However, that was 3 or 4 years ago :( I believe the parents association bullshit , shut it down because it was "too intense for kids". He may have taken that course before it's removal? ....hmmm no clue

Depends on your province. Most Cadet units in Ontario are having the privilige of 5 round Famil firing with the C7 removed. Most of the stories are Pure BS.

A 5 round famil shoot doesn't count as any kind of training or qualification, etc.

Also, what is this basic tactics course. It woulden't teach cadets any real patrolling skills, section attacks, etc

:shock: OK before my head EXPLODES with ANGER... ill take a CHILL THE !@#$ OUT PILL, ok... here we go...

1. Cadets DO NOT HAVE ANY TACTICAL TRAINING WHAT SO EVER, besides capture the glowstick, which was mentioned ahahaha.

2. in NS Cadets in Gagetown do a Fimil test on the C7 with 25 rounds, one 5 Rounds mag and 2 10 Round mags.

3. UNDERAGE...

4. Cadets arnt MILITARY, you are a CADET, not a SOLDIER big difference.

5. I help as a Primary Res. with the 2841 Halifax Rifles Royal Army Cadet Core. most of the Cadets coundnt tie there own shoes let alone COMMAND a hole PLT through a TACTICAL POSITION. you have to babysitt even the WO and SGT's to make sure they dont eat something they shouldnt.

6. the closest things to Tac. Training with cadets is Night Nav., Map And Compass(which you get lost), and bush craft, and knot tieing.... WOW! im a SOLDIER ALREADY!

7. The Cadet Program is a Wonderfull thing i was a Cadet i was apart of the unit that i mentioned (2841) and moved on to become a soldier of the Infantry, 36Bgr Princess Louise Fusiliers LFAA. i was never a SUPER COMMANDO when i was a Cadet, i was a Cadet, and you are a CADET not a soldier so dont act like one, please, it just pisses me off and alot of other people here that are REG/P Res. guys here.

DONT POKE YOUR EYE OUT... PLEASE.

WOW :shock:
SWAT

The sad thing is, dude, he's right. What are you going to do, lie still and shoot people with a Daisy, after aiming for half a minute?

After 3-4 years of going to Summer Camp... :tup:

Well, no comment there. 'Nuff said.

As Captain Fells told us when we first joined, 'Cadets is not even affiliated with the Canadian Army'.

I know- I was with you there, and still am :-P

Oooooh!

Also 'nuff said. There's some SuperCadets out there who believe their G.I. Joes simply by attending, notably the higher ranks, I find it sadly amusing.

Remember, kids, eye protection's imperative ;)
Don't want to end up like that kid on my mum's old casework, when she worked for Social Services- who had a pellet go completely through his eye, split, and plant itself in his brain. Not very pleasant, hmm?

OWN3D :tup: see HE is a CADET

BTW, Nick,
Your location says 'nova soctia'.

Cheers :cheers:

And now, for a posting break. I'll be off for a few weeks, be back mid-August.

no it doesnt what are you talking about... :smack:

:lol:

O.k. SWAT, you're talking about ONE group of cadets not in alberta. how the hell would you know what alberta cadets are doing? I know the guy that started this post personally, and he and a few of the other guys in the cadets here could EASILY hold their own in a combat situation. you asshole you.

being a former cadet myself i can say that cadets is not the military... not even close and 99.9% of the cadets i met and in some cases was in charge of were absolutely not people i would trust with a weapon of any sort. being in alberta i can say that none of the cadets i was ever with here got "tactical training"... not even close.

does that mean that anyone is absolutely unqualified, no it just means that i dont think that cadets should go around pretending they are real soldiers, and i dont think that cadets should be saying that they have some "tactical knowledge" or "tactical experience".

Dude, I'm an Air Cadet, sure Army Cadets are a tad more hard core in drill and stuff but the only way your EVEN affiliated with the actual forces is the fact it's run by DND.
Cut down on the damn war movies.

hey grande prarie kewl, im a W/O with 2313 SALH in medicine hat, but yeah not a lot of "tactical training" in cadets lol, nightr navs are just walking from 1 point to the next.

That sounds like fun *rolls eyes*

Haha, that crazy Warrant is here too! :D

Posting in an Epic Thread.

Shouldn't this thread be in the Teams section not the Themes section?

Either that or the Trash Can, I still don't know why this ended up here.

I love cadets,but I cant eat a whole one.

You mean my training with the 853c daisy urban assault rifle and my "camofrauge" training wasn't really tactical training? aw shucks. Cadets is way down the shitter but there is one thing I can't stand more, CIC officers, of course there are some that transfered from reg or are just cool to begin with, but they are a big waste of money.

Funny story, last summer I was a staff cadet and I got fucked out of going to England so I was stuck doing operations, the Reg force WO in charge looks outside the window at too HUGE fat CIC officers and calmly says " thats a lot of cadpat." literally could of made an arctic tent with the amount of fabric on their asses.

Back on topic, you can find a good cadet corps once in a while but some of the most goofy retarded people I have ever encountered were cadets. So just never mention "cadets" and "airsoft" together ever again :)

Holy-Thread-Resurrection, Batman!!!

whoa! didn't notice that this was necro'd

It totally was ;)

My cadets are cool, we like to do our own 'thing' for the bush exercises. I like to keep it fun while still having something useful.
Just like doing patrols with someone on point is for safety....

Real Soldiers go through six months of intense basic training where we spend 99% of the time getting beat to *fuck*, so if you pissy little boys have what it takes I'll show you what it is like to be a real soldier. I spent a year and a half as a training corporal in the Royal Marines. If ya wanna be a man I'll treat ya like a man. Until then I don't wanna hear anymore foolish talk about Cadets recieving "Tactical Training" so shut the fuck up, and grow up~!

To the guys that are Reg soldiers and Militia sorry dudes it had to be said. I'm tired of little boys trying to be big men.

Ok.....now that I have calmed down, I would like to apologize for my profanity. It was in the heat of the moment. However it is true. Can I also add that if Cadets can call themselves soldiers, can security guards call themselves police officers???????Hahahahahaha

Real Soldier:

http://www.soldiersperspective.us/im...indsailing.jpg

Sorry couldn't resist lol :P

The next evolution of Military Secret Squirrle shit.... Secret Flying Squirrle....

I was in cadets made it to sergent, and uh no we didnt get tactical shit...

When i was in borden the british cadets put us to shame, all you could hear for days was them using their c12 targeting rifles ... The only cadets i know of who auctual get tactical experiance

lol @ tactical training comment

how about you put your cadet training against my training and we'll see who wins?

i was a army cadet for two years unfortunately out east they got rid of war games and night ops cuz the public started claiming they were breeding young children into soldiers so we didnt get to do anything i signed up for basic marksman what do u assume is the point of marksm,an courses? to shoot of course!!! we hit the range a total of 4 times in the 3 week course and all we ever got was daisys 2nd year didnt even get to go to camp *sigh*

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got a mate who is in the cadets.. well no in, but leads them. same thing here, they got ride of all the tactical stuff, they dont even refer to night reccon as such anymore its called night navigation lol... they butchured it... apparently sending your kids to a military like environment had the unexpected result of makeing kids want to follow military careers... who would have thunk? lol. parents need to give their head a shake sometimes. my personal, uneducated opinion.

maybe it has something to do with child soldiering.. Thats the same reason the USMC no longer allows anyone 17 or under into combat zones..

lol, no. it has to with the canadian attitude that were too civilized for guns.

i agree with archer thier was this rly crazy guy in my corps who thinks that because he took the army cadet parachuteist course hes a certified army paratrooper he goes to the recruiting center for fun and when he does he wears his uniform medals and all one day he wore his grandfathers dress uniform from korea to school and any other days he wears cadpats to school

Lawl. I had a friend who was like that. Then he went to apply to the reserves and failed the apptitude test. Also I think that parent feed the fire when thinking that cadets are to much like the military. When I was the Chief Warrant I had a parent ask if her son was in danger going on a Feild Training Exercise. I just shook my head in dissapointment. As far as I'm concerend the only relation between cadets and the Military is that DND funds them and allows them to use the bases.

lol god my corps was like the dropouts of high school, druggies, punks, all because the parents thought it was boot camp so thiers 3 or 4 regular kids who like cadets in the green star section me and like 3 of my friends and then thiers like 18 of these punks who sing and dance on parade who smoke and drink outside before falling in swear constantly so then beginnin of my third year i go into air cadets cuz of an incident that happend at argonaut and they were normal compared to my corps but in the end i quit cuz it wasent the same as a beret god do i miss cadets now:(

What a idiotic loser/posuer.

if your talking about the guy in my corps then yes he is a lil odd he one day after drill practice he started goin on about parachute me into iraq with 2 desert eagles ill take down osama funny thing was the supply officer was right behind him haha

if ur tlkin bout me how rude of u:(

lol i got 20 on my fellow cadet u no us cadets are some bad fellows behind closed doors i mean what with shooting a daisy air rifle after a hour of aiming and chaseing the glowstick in the dark OH OH and dont forget learning to read a map:P

Silly banter like this is why there's a forum called Cadet World. Check it out, God knows this kinda drivel has been beaten to death over there.

agreed. your a former cadet aint ya lerch? i thot i saw you had a sea cadet rank on your vest in one of your pictures?

Nah man wasn't talking about you, my last comment was in reference to that guy you were talking about.

I bet if you scratch a lot of folks here you will find former cadets...underneath.

I was in Cadets.... well 30 years ago now... so it was a bit different then.. we were typically issued rifles when we went on exercise... sure they were Enfields...

But sometimes they issued FNs But only when the Local Reserve unit NCOs were accompanying us in the field... we used to dig in.. do patrols and attacks....

And we went to the range and fired FNs 3 times a year.....

For god's sake they even gassed us once! ( but they got in a lot of crap for doing it )

Cadets were conceived as a stepping stone into the service.... it still is to a degree in the UK... but in Canada... I really don't see the point anymore.

Politically correct thinking and the drive of liberal society is systematically wringing all the adventure out of youth....

Former cadet, current CIC ;) I try my best to keep the kids active at my corp, and now that I'm taking over as XO come September (Chippy is leaving for BMQ) I'll be getting even more options as to what we can do...

Under the radar :D

sweet my officers didnt really let us do alot of stuff we had alot of bush outtings oh wait i forgot im not alot to call them that anymore field outtings phew that was a close one

lemme ask as a CIC that means you have probly been camp staff at one point so does this seem a lil to much to you?

during the search of my stuff when i first got thier they took my wallet because inside my wallet was my grandfathers regimental badge from korea and i keep it on me as my little good luck charm/keepsake and they took the whole wallet and didnt say why i couldent have it im assumeing it had to do with the badge cuz the wallet wasent like inapropriate or something just a regular black wallet

Yeah that would be overstepping their authority. At the most, all they should've been allowed to do is give you a good firm grilling and confiscate the medal until you did your out-routine.

Like I said before though, there's a forum called Cadet-World which is perfect for this sort of discussion.

lol yeah sry its jus been buggin me for the longest time

actually , I just witnessed the scouts from Canada and U.S. reenact the battle of 1812 . They have more combat training than cadets

HOLY HELL YOU GUYS NEED TO CHILL OUT!!!
WHO CARES? QUIT TRYING TO INSULT EVERYTHING THAT EVERYONE SAYS AND DOES!!!
you guys are worse than those nerds that spend all day insulting movies on the internet and world of warcraft!

Funny you should say that seeing that this thread was put to rest three months ago.

Yea, way to bring back an old thread..

Also, you ain't Airborne so change your name.. maybe a new avatar too

I got out of cadets about three months ago...Sorta glad I did....Surprised they don't teach us how to bake cookies and make friggin cakes now....there isn't much fun stuff left...

And every time I heard a cadet....More so one of my Sergeants say we were soldiers....I wanted to slap the bastard, and if he said it to someone(Like some people while on a trip to Greece) I'd clearly tell them what he was saying is total BS...And we don't get any "Combat training" we just learn how to run around in a field with a map and compass.....Woohoo.

You're on a fucking airsoft forum??? Grow up.

Airsoft forum or not you shouldn't use titles(IE Airborne) you haven't earned.

Posing is not something taken too kindly...especially on MP.net ;)

He's 16 and interested in our armed forces. Impersonation by young people is a complement. I'm 35 and do Vietnam renactment. Do you have a problem with that?

my boyfriend was in 2 commando from 90- 93 i use the pegasus avatar cause its hump or jump. he finds it offensive when people play airborne when they havent earned it. but i guess you cant stop it. what are we gonna do go to everyones house and beat them all up. it s like walking up a down esculator. although mike L is 100% correct on this.

Hey I go around in full British combat kit when I show off the abbot but I have written permission by the British ministry of defence.

In reading this entire thread one has to remember that this is an airsoft forum. Everyone is here because of a common shared interest in airsoft and perhaps all things airsoft related. This includes impressions of military units throughout the world. I think that impressionism is a great form of flattery especially if a great amount of research is done to make a individual knowledgable on the subject of impression at hand.

Having said this, I have served a great number of years in the military myself, travelled the world, worked with many dedicated professionals some of which have died in armed confict. I respect all military individuals to the highest degree, and if I can show some degree of respect to these individuals through portrayal of their units through airsoft impressionism then so I will. Also, because of my service in the Military, does this make me any different then those airsoft impressionists who have not served? I feel as long as these people are not trying to be something they are not, then I have no problem with it.

Just my two cents.

it touches me deep down you joined our forum just to say that thank you now i can go gouge out my eyes with a spoon

Sorry to post so late, seeing how this thread is kind of going another direction, but as it isn't closed yet....

Cadets over the years progresssivley receeds from its former structure. As for tactical training, it is possible for some cadets to get real CF lessons taught to them. I have witnessed some cadets from Ottawa, located right across the road from NDHQ learn all sorts of CF lessons, As well it depends on the regiment. The reserve regiment I was a part of was not very reputable, and isolated. The cadets would go on FTX's with the unit, though not carrying weapons, they would take part. Not to say that Cadets is anyway a springboard to being 'tactical' As I think this was rare, and would more likely happen many, many years ago. For someone to recently claim to have tactical experience due to cadets may be a product of hopeful imagination. Not to bash Cadets, as in the regiment I was with, the city in which it was located was full of scum, abusive parents etc. The cadet corps turned these kids around, and sent most of them to the military or the regiment in which they were affiliated. As for the officers, a few were former military soldiers from the CF and one from a foreign military. So, I guess it was possible for cadets on the rarest of occasions, and in an extremely small number to actually learn something about soldiering, however slight. However depending on the age of the original poster... I am guessing his 'tactical training' will have no bearing on his ability to play airsoft, should he ever.

As for "McAirborne" ..... Enough has already been said and I'm glad it has..

Iv got "tactical training" too. I watched Band of Brothers alot:)
I was in cadets for 9 years too.. Never got any of that training you speak of. Got to play with some rifles n such.
Dont see how having any "training" would make you a better player at all in a non life threatning fake war game. Any ole joe off the street could jump in the sport and blow anyone away not knowing anything.. Seen that before during paintball games. My team took down some "top knotch" paintball teams and none of us had any type of training other then Band o Brothas.

Were you a CIC officer for the last part?

well not to bash cadets as im an ex cadet myself with 7 years served and 3 continous years in the service as a deploying soldier in 09 omlt cadets do in some instances recieved military training in my case i was in gagetown attached with 2 rcr and we were given the oppurtunity to do section attacks''dry runs no blanks'' and some house clearing style training, this training is extremely evident even at todays date with cadets on exchanges over seas ex'' maple leaf exchange, cadets get to assist in british armed forces training which includes section attacks with full pyrotechnics, and blanks firing of support wepons and various small arms L85 GPMG l96 etc...

other exchanges include germany and wales which include similar training.

So to conclude although most cadets do not recieve such training people in some key positions and courses do recieve '' tactical training'' which may in some way be beneficial to the sport but should not exceed their ''expertise'' in such feilds im an armoured recce soldier qualified para doing the job of an infanteer at 3rd bat vandoo and trust me what i ''thought I knew '' was a very big slap in the face lolol

Mike-L, you are in fact a huge dick. Note, you do not have one, you are one.

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But in all seriousness theres no reason to bring up an old thread just to try to insult me.. you aren't contributing to this tread, etc. If you have something to say to me PM me. And also please be a bit more mature an don't try to insult me with a weak line like that :p

That insult sounded like something you'd hear in grade school :p

I read this whole thread as I killed my diner and ate it with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I think the new post is totally raises the game in this thread. Up till now it was folks talking about playing hide the glowstick or their boyfriends other hobbies.

Now it's on!

Are you proposing an epic picture rebuttle thread to ensue?

One of those "ultra-commando" cadets that I grew up with is now in Afghanistan as a reg-force armoured soldier. I was never in cadets myself, just looked like a whole lot of drill and no real fun.

I can't believe I had to quote myself here.

Now, where's that picture of a beating a dead horse?

Yes I confirm, Final Phoolish Fotos.

Well im 37 yrs old , be it that im an ex cadet and ex military , i rememebr doing summer time stuff with reg forces , shooting fn's and ocassionally c7 but that was rare , although most cic arnt worth a dine ( we used to say that in a light breeze those bars would fly if they wernt sewn on correctly , lol ) but ocassionally some are , i know of one in particular thats was quite good but the parents though it was to warlike and too tough for the kids. Cadets nowadays is like cub scouts compared to how it was when i was in .

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Originally Posted by Killer Canuck
wait...Cadets get tactical training?

yes we do... not with real weapons but we do night ops and weekend exersises with them"

I don't mean to flame but that's just f*cking pathetic. I was in 32 Recce for 4 years and I think that ur cadet training pales in comparison don't ya think? Picture this: It's 05:00, you just got off duty at 23:30 the night before and now ur CO sees fit to take the whole platoon on a fixed pace run. Only this isn't ur average run, this is 20 km through the worst terrain u've ever seen with 75 kilos slamming into your back with every freakin step. Sound like fun? I didn't think so. So I suggest u quit proclaimin urself to be a goddamn super soldier just cause ur in the cadets. Capisce?