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I'm Sergeant Sean Carroll
from Antigonish, Nova Scotia,

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a Drafting and Survey Technician
with 1 Engineer Support Unit,

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in Kingston, Ontario.

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And I'm Master Corporal
Cameron Wallace

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from McCord, Saskatchewan,
a Drafting and Survey Technician

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also with 1 Engineer
Support Unit at CFB Kingston.

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Drafting and Survey Technicians,
or DS Techs,

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provide deployed and domestic
survey and drafting support

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to the Forces and
other government departments,

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using the latest
survey equipment

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and computer-aided
drafting software.

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As surveyors, we ensure
that camps and structures

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are situated in the
right locations and laid out

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in the correct orientation.

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As draftspersons, we generate
the final construction drawings

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from the engineers' designs,
that the tradespeople use

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to actually build the project.

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There's so much
that we could do, right?

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We could be outside,
surveying the ground.

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And then back inside, taking
that data that we collected,

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putting it into the computer
and then producing a design

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and then going out
and staking it out again.

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And from Corporal to Sergeant,

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you're usually involved
in every step of the process.

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Drafting and Survey Technicians
work as both surveyors and

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draftspersons and are required
to be proficient at both.

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What makes a good Drafting
and Surveying Technician

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would be somebody that pays
very close attention to detail,

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that's very meticulous.

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Also, honesty plays a huge role,
just to build that trust

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between you and the people
that you're working with.

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We work with the latest Global
Navigation Satellite System

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enabled survey equipment,
and work with both Auto CAD

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and Auto CAD Civil 3D
for Computer Aided Design.

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As a Drafting and Survey Tech
in the military, we're trained

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in the many technical aspects
of Drafting and Survey

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but we're also trained
to develop our soldier skills

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because we need to be able
to work in a combat environment.

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The camaraderie is great
within the drafting / surveying

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section, and again a lot
of really unique experiences,

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from being responsible
for laying out hundreds

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of tents for a major exercise -
it can be yourself and

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your partner tasked to do that
before the main body shows up.

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So you get to kinda see
stuff falling into place.

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I've been deployed
to places within Canada

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such as Rankin Inlet, Inuvik,

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Wainwright, Alberta,
Petawawa, Ontario -

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outside of Canada, I've
been deployed to South Dakota,

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Latvia, and Kuwait.

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To become a DS Tech, after
your basic military training,

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you'll attend
the Canadian Forces School

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of Military Engineering at
Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in

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New Brunswick for the technical
portion of your trade training.

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When you're done at Gagetown,
you'll be posted to either

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CFB Cold Lake in Alberta,
CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia,

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or CFB Kingston in Ontario
where you'll go through 2 years

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of on-the-job training.

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You'll be working alongside
experienced DS Techs

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who will mentor you as you
develop your new trade skills,

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working on
a wide variety of engineering

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and construction projects.

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And because it's such a
small trade, everyone will get

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the opportunity to continue
to travel and deploy,

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and stay current
and stay on the tools.

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I didn't join to ride a desk,
and the working ranks -

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it goes right
from top to bottom.

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The most attractive
part about being a Drafting

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and Surveying Technician
in the Canadian Armed Forces

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would be the deploying side.

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Just seeing a different
part of the world, seeing how

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another country operates
and helping out that country.

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I've always wanted to join
the military as a kid -

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I went in blind, not knowing
what I was getting into,

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and it was one of
the best decisions I made.