À la base des Forces canadiennes Trenton

So here I am in Trenton! 3 Navigator tests and 2 simulator sessions down. I only have 2 more sim sessions left and hopefully after that I find out that I passed both my nav and pilot tests. If that's the case then it's all up to my eyes after that!

I'm loving Trenton. I've got my own hotel room, the food here is restaraunt quality despite being massed produced. Probably, because military cooks put max effort in, otherwise they would be blading their buddies. I look out my window and I get more excited then I would be if I was walking into a room full of girls. All I see from my room is hangars, Hercs, and the C17 Globemaster. It's more beautiful then anything I've seen before. 4 jet engines and the capacity to move a lot of stuff. Let's just say Dad would be out of a job with Millers if I had one of those sweet birds. Shoal Lake would have to beef up their airport and someone might have to donate another quarter section for it. I can also see from my window an Antonov. Not sure if it's a full blown Antonov or just a baby, either way it's awesome. To bad the CF won't spring for a couple of those. Other things I can see are the Challenger (the kickass private jet that MPs, ministers, the prime minister, Governor General, and other people get to fly around in), the Polaris (Airbus transport plane used to transport troops back and forth between Canada and Afghanistan) and the CF Land Advanced Warfare Center, which is just a building but from what I can tell is the home of the jump school. I'm pretty sure I was disturbed from my sleep at about 0600 this morning by the jumpers doing pushups in the parking lot. It's safe to assume that they weren't doing normal pushups either. I'm going to assume they were doing airborne pushups, which is an excercise in teamwork. What I mean by that is that the platoon, flight, section, or what ever the unit maybe called lines up. The only person with their feet on the ground is the guy at the back. Everyone else's feet are on the shoulders of the person behind them. If you don't all push up at the same time then it's a difficult excercise for the entire team.

All in all I would love to be posted to Trenton in 4 years time or for On the Job Training. The simulator sessions are going good or so I believe from what I understand from the readouts it gives after each session. The Navigator tests were easy but because of the time restriction, nearly impossible. So hopefully I made it through them! Anyways I'm gonna head off for some lunch before my next sim session, then I think I'm gonna take a walk around to see what else is kicking on base.