Direct Action Podcast: Retired RCMP ERT Operator, Ryan Tennant

So yeah, past elections.

When on the course, back then our course was like a selection part two.

It was around 50% attrition rate.

Like in the first hour, we lost five guys.

Mm-hmm.

And we're just sitting in a classroom, again, it's from all across the country, run a canot, and you're like, they just walk in, the instructor cadre, we did like a nomenclature test or something on the guns.

And they're like, okay, you know, name five names that I don't remember now, because it was, I didn't know them for more than an hour.

Like, come see the instructor staff, and they get up, they start walking.

Never forget, they're like, grab your book.

We're like, grab your book.

And they're gone, they're on a flight home.

No shit? Yeah.

Wow.

We're like, whoa.

Whoa.

This is real.

Yeah, it's real.

It's a bit of shit.

This is super

real.

So selection part two, but the course itself, old school.

As much as they can yell, as much as they can make you run, whatever.

I didn't come out as a trained assaulter.

Right.

And do you feel like at that time, because, you know, and we're going to get into it in this chat about our philosophies and, you know, the importance of training and, you know, delivering material adequately and doing the best that we can.