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"20 Questions - Sergeants and Warrant Officers"
I am looking for Royal Canadians willing to answer a few questions about their service up to and as a Sergeant and/or Warrant Officer of The RCR. The "20 Questions - Sergeants and Warrant Officers" survey is designed to present a few questions that help to share experiences encountered by Royal Canadians as they achieved and performed the admirable responsibilities of these ranks. I would like to get a few examples from each decade (that folks are around to contribute from) and from different battalions. A selection will find themselves on the regimental website, all responses with be archived for the Regiment.
Contributions will be posted here - http://thercr.ca/history/20questions_sgt_wo/20qs_sgt_wo.htm
The questions are offered below.
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20 Questions - Sergeants and Warrant Officers
Please provide: Name, rank achieved, years of service with The RCR (from - to)
1. What year were you recruited? What year were you promoted to the rank of Sergeant?
2. Which Battalions of the Regiment and in which Companies have you served?
3. What units have you served in outside the four Battalions of the Regiment?
4. How many years did you spend at each rank level before you were promoted to Sergeant?
5. What leadership training did you have to take before your promotion to Sergeant? When and where did you take this training and how long was the course?
6. Were there any particular events that inspired you during your advancement to the Sergeants' and Warrant Officers' Mess?
7. What do you feel was the most valuable lesson you received as a developing leader?
8. What was your first appointment on promotion to the rank of Sergeant?
9. When you commanded a rifle section, what vehicles, weapons and equipment did your section have?
10. What was your most challenging appointment as a Sergeant or Warrant Officer?
11. What did you find most rewarding about your responsibilities as a Sergeant or Warrant Officer?
12. What training experiences have you found most rewarding for yourself and your soldiers?
13. What training experiences did you find that best promoted your professional development as an NCO?
14. What operational missions have you served on as a Sergeant or Warrant Officer?
15. What was the most useful skill you learned that was taught as essential for a Sergeant or Warrant Officer to know?
16. What was the least useful skill you learned that you were told would be essential for a Sergeant or Warrant Officer to know?
17. What type of training do you think would have been more useful to receive, or to receive more of, before being promoted to Sergeant and assuming the leadership responsibilities of that rank?
18. What job or task have you had that you think every new Senior NCO should experience?
19. If you could give advice to a young soldier starting his or her military career in the Infantry, what would you offer?
20. If you could give advice to a young NCO about to be promoted into the Sergeant's and Warrant Officers' mess, what would you offer?
And, for extra credit:
21. Accepting that "no names, no pack drill" is a time honoured practice ..... what was the most outrageous act you remember a peer having to present himself to the RSM to explain?
Can you provide a photograph of yourself from that period of your career?
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