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BigRed Gunner
24th August 2010, 02:51
Hey everyone I'm heading to Gagetown for training going to Whiskey Battery, I cant wait to go. I'm driving out there from Sault Ste. Marie, ON I figure its about a 2day trip or so, but the only question is what do you guys think of New Bruniswick, cool, amazing, different, whats your opion on, New Bruniswick....
Flashman
24th August 2010, 07:35
Hey everyone I'm heading to Gagetown for training going to Whiskey Battery, I cant wait to go. I'm driving out there from Sault Ste. Marie, ON I figure its about a 2day trip or so, but the only question is what do you guys think of New Bruniswick, cool, amazing, different, whats your opion on, New Bruniswick....

Hahahaha.

Enough said.
pat16
29th August 2010, 16:13
Well, as a New Brunswicker, I shall say you will see things are very different over here, and it kinda sucks. The roads are horrible, the people are nice and welcoming but, there's not much to do.
CaptWhiteway
29th August 2010, 16:14
On a plus side, the pizza delivery guys can deliver to a 6 figure grid refrence.
Flashman
29th August 2010, 16:28
On a plus side, the pizza delivery guys can deliver to a 6 figure grid refrence.

I'm not sure who would let them into the secure training area for that to happen....

Myth.

Arcs.
Flashman
29th August 2010, 16:34
Well, as a New Brunswicker, I shall say you will see things are very different over here, and it kinda sucks. The roads are horrible, the people are nice and welcoming but, there's not much to do.

The people, and the highways are the best part of New Brunswick. The NB portion of the Trans-Canada Hwy is unbelievably well maintained, and engineered. As for Gagetown, I don't have anything positive to say.
pat16
30th August 2010, 05:00
Hahah well it's only the highway that's well maintained here in the north part of the province. The general roads in the cities are horrible. :p
Lerch
30th August 2010, 19:30
I spent just shy of two years in Gagetown, starting with DP1 at the school and then bouncing around to 4AD Regt after awhile...

I LOVE New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (I have a second family in Truro and Antigonish), but I have a certain loathing for Gagetown itself...so if you can get into Fredericton or even Oromocto often, you'll be better off :p
N. McKay
31st August 2010, 04:22
I'm not sure who would let them into the secure training area for that to happen....

Myth.

Arcs.

You'll never be accused of having too much sense of humour!
Flashman
31st August 2010, 07:30
You'll never be accused of having too much sense of humour!

I was voted funniest person in my grade every year of high school.

Myth.

Arcs.
Lerch
4th September 2010, 08:30
I was voted funniest person in my grade every year of high school.

Myth.

Arcs.

Your arcs are off, though we did actually get pizza delivered to PV a few times, and of course I took my ML out for snack runs whenever I was working out of PV...
Flashman
4th September 2010, 09:17
Your arcs are off, though we did actually get pizza delivered to PV a few times, and of course I took my ML out for snack runs whenever I was working out of PV...

Petersville is not Gagetown proper - we both know that the atmosphere at those two places is slightly different.. it's like comparing Connaught to Petawawa.
Lerch
24th September 2010, 15:50
Petersville is not Gagetown proper - we both know that the atmosphere at those two places is slightly different.. it's like comparing Connaught to Petawawa.

I won't contest that, it's like apples and bananas, just saying though ;) training area all the same.
Zipperhead
25th September 2010, 06:45
Petersville is not Gagetown proper -

In all fairness though - you were talking about delivering pizza to a grid reference. Gagetown proper is just the hard-stand north of Range Control - which is an open base. PV is the true heart of the training area - launching off platform for such beautiful locales as Scotty Dog woods, Blue Mountain sanitarium, etc.
Dieselboats
25th September 2010, 07:52
Blue MountainNow that brings back some memories...I spent the summer of 1987 there as a RESO candidate. Good times picking up rocks, building chin-up bars, formal dining instruction with Ike Kennedy, and the usual good times of INF phase training. Chilliwack was a nice change the following year (Combat Engineers did infantry training as a prelude to MILE training).