CORNWALLIS NS Video Clips.
FROM WHEELCHAIR NOMAD DIARY...2003 CC Leaving Annapolis Royal we followed Highway 1 to Cornwallis and Digby. We drove through Cornwallis, taking photographs. I was amazed at my reality for this naval training base with the reality I saw tonight, a sleepy deserted collection of empty white two storeys H shaped dormitories, and an unkempt parade square along side a quiet country roadway. There wasnt even a fence and we had free access to drive around. Then, as a first year officer cadet in that summer of 1967, the base was a place of incessant stress, scrubbing, waxing and polishing floors, ironing uniforms, spit polishing boots and brass, early morning running, double time marching, saluting, inspections, punishments, classes, and weekly exams. I seldom got off the base, had no transport and a social life limited to drinking with other cadets. The object of the training seemed to be creating a pressure cooker situation to weed out those unsuitable to be naval officers through limited sleep, a hectic schedule and unrelenting humiliations from those in charge. Cadets did quit or were dismissed and sent home but I survived along with three other Queens University friends Martin Perry, Chris Rogers and Jim Rose
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