Canadian Special Forces 2016 | "We Will Find A Way"

Excellent video! The Canadians have the older version because they only put 1.2% into their defense and their military is gutted for the most part.

I went to a Canadian exercise in 2018 and 2019 at Canadian Forces base Wainwright. We had American active duty, Army reserve, National Guard and Marine Corps Reserve work both sides either opposing forces or the Allied forces. I supervised about a dozen Observer controller trainer teams for the Army Reserve as a Major. We did the after Action reviews and sent slides up to Army North Fifth Army. When I went in 2019, I was the double-slotted deputy commander of a brigade. We coordinated all administrative duties of all US forces both active, reserve and guard that came to that exact exercise. The exercise is the final training before a battalion minus goes to Latvia every year. British participation was very minimal when I went. Not so now.

https://youtu.be/FZpnYduO0M8

I was a camp McCall as well in the summer of 2006. Civil Affairs qualification course. I know yours was a lot more intense. I didn't have a Robin sage exercise.

Sir, what year did you attend the Q Course?

LTC (Join to see) - I loved Robin Sage, except for the bugs ;)

If you're asking me, CPT (Join to see), I attended and completed SF training in 1970 as an enlisted man. Back then, there was no 18 series. After, SF Phase 1, I went to the SF weapons course, which was then entitled, the Weapons NCO Supervisor Candidate Special Forces Course. SF Phase 2 occurred thereafter. Upon completion, you were designated a Heavy Weapons Specialist (11C/11B) or a Light Weapons Specialist (11B/11C). The training was the same for all weapons specialists. Upon completion, I was designated the former since I was an 11C at AIT. Robin Sage wasn't named Robin Sage until long after I left Fort Bragg (1974, I think)!
Neither the SF tab nor the SF Branch existed back then. There was no SFAS. I was commissioned in the Signal Corps on 16JUN73, and SC was my basic branch until I retired. I was never a Special Forces officer, although I did receive a letter asking me to branch SF when the branch was created. When the tab was created, I simply sent a bunch of paperwork to Fort Bragg and I received orders awarding the tab sometime thereafter. Many, many soldiers did the same.