IPCP - Becoming an Infantry Platoon Commander in the Canadian Army

Following Basic Training in St. Jean sur Richelieu, the next three phases of training for an Infantry Officer take place in Gagetown, New Brunswick. In August 2020, with the uncertain times surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, a new pilot course was put into motion to streamline my next 3 phases into a single modernized program with mentorship, lethality, and tactics at its focus.

This is the Infantry Platoon Commander Programme.

127 candidates would be loaded onto it. Around 60 would graduate.

This video is shows some of the highlights of this course, but in reality only shows maybe 20% of what we experienced. The most memorable, exhausting, and intense moments were never filmed obviously. It was an exciting challenge to document this journey, not knowing how I would do, and knowing it would involve editing at least a year's worth of footage into a product appropriate for publishing on the internet.

Thank you again to all of the staff for dedicating such a long duration of time and effort into ensuring we were going to battalion as the most capable officers the Infantry School could produce.

Thank you to my course mates, with whom I have forged lifelong friendships with, and whose determination and ferocity, and selflessness kept me motivated in the lowest of times.


0:00 Intro/Quarantine
1:27 Infantry Internship
3:52 Beginning of TEM
4:50 BMOQ-A
6:42 AFFRSO
8:23 LAVTOCC
8:58 Battle School
12:03 Assessments
14:35 Final Assault on Groningen Village
16:57 Thoughts and Advice
19:36 LAV Range
20:38 Graduation
21:30 Cameos
24:08 Final Words

Music:
Neffex - Go Hard (Instrumental)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Onwards
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) - Season 1 Lobby Music
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) - Season 2 Lobby Music
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) - Season 4 Lobby Music
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) - Season 6 Lobby Music
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019) - Coalition Victory Theme
Battlefield 3 - Thunder Run
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Terror Billy
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - Radioactive
Infraction - War

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