Training
The Camerons train regularly at Connaught Ranges in West Ottawa and at CFB Petawawa. Members of the unit can expect to train a minimum of one night a week and one weekend a month. Often, the pace of training requires soldiers to parade more often.
Training consists of basic soldier skills, individual battle task standards, and more advanced training operations based on contemporary training doctrine, much of which has been developed in recent years in Afghanistan.
In 2006 the unit underwent a noticeable shift in training focus. New training was conducted in cordon and search operations, urban patrolling, and vehicle checkpoints. There has also been an increased emphasis on high intensity urban fighting.
2006 also saw the opening of a new Regimental training facility in Bells Corners, a western suburb of Ottawa. Located in the Lynwood Mall on the south side of Robertson Road, the location houses B Company, a sister rifle company to A Company which trains out of Cartier Square Drill Hall located in downtown Ottawa.
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