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Hello, let me begin with saying that I have searched the forums for information, and contacted local recruiters about it as well. Basically, I've been the minimum age required to join a reserve unit for a while now, I've known that I wanted to get into the CF/Reserves for a long time now, but I'm now stuck making a decision between the Army Reserve (infantry) or the Armoured Reserve. I understand that the Armoured Reserves are reconnaissance units use the G Wagens and not any AFVs, I have also read here that some units are periodically stripped of their G Wagens, but after talking with some people affiliated with a local unit (Governor General's - Toronto) that they are equipped with those vehicles, so with that being clear, to what extent do the armoured reserve units train recce? I'm very interested in both aspects offered by the two branches, combat and recce, but seeing as I'm going to be in the reserves for the next while (going to switch to regular after University if I decide I'd like to stay) I'd like to enjoy myself as much as possible, so what would be a general breakdown of what the two branches would do, during regular training/exercises?
Do the recce units actually do train in things other than mounted patrols/convoys (as I read in a few posts here), would there be a decent amount of combat training/exercises? Hopefully this thread doesn't come off as being too jumbled or anything, I just want to know as much as possible about what the two branches would do on a regular training or exercise, the unit's websites were of no real help, on line articles and actually speaking with some recruiters didn't either :-\
Do the recce units actually do train in things other than mounted patrols/convoys (as I read in a few posts here), would there be a decent amount of combat training/exercises? Hopefully this thread doesn't come off as being too jumbled or anything, I just want to know as much as possible about what the two branches would do on a regular training or exercise, the unit's websites were of no real help, on line articles and actually speaking with some recruiters didn't either :-\