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Our friends pretty much thought:
"Oh my God!

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They're going to war!"
Yeah!

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That's what we got a lot.
No, we're just going to school!

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Ha, ha! Don't worry!

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We're in the Air
Force. Engineers.

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We have no military experience
in our family whatsoever.

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And we weren't cadets or
anything, so... we knew that...

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We came in blind.
Yeah, pretty blind.

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You see movies and stuff
about basic training and then...

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So, basic training
was very scary,

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'cause you're expecting it
to be what it's like in movies,

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but it was not, so...

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So, it's definitely scary,
but it's exciting.

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But no, it's a place for people
who want to be leaders.

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And everybody who goes
to university and college

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has a little bit of "I want
to save the world" in them.

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And it's a direct way
to help people,

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which is, I think,
a big draw to RMC.

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And you get to be a leader.

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We were in almost
every single sport

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we could possibly manage
to be in.

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Through high school
and elementary school,

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we played, like, you name it:
basketball, volleyball,

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alpine skiing, javelin,
rugby, hockey, soccer.

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And in order to go to
our hockey tournaments,

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or whatever, we had to be
performing well in school

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or else we weren't
allowed to go.

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In Grade 10-ish,

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we said that we were
interested in RMC.

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And we just kind of
put out feelers.

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And then, the athletic
department contacted us

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and recruited us as athletes.

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For all three female
varsity sports,

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so volleyball,
soccer and fencing.

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And we could decide which one
that we wanted

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to be recruited for.
We went out for fencing.

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And we have always been
interested in trying new sports

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and see what we can dip
our toes into.

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So, we went for that.

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But our personalities fit nicely

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with the weapon that we chose.

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Jen is a saberist,

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and the sabres are typically

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more offensive and aggressive
on the piste.

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I'm foilist, which is
a little bit more calculated,

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which is exactly what
our personalities are.

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So, that was nice to find
something that really fits you.

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Yeah. And for the record, we
did try fencing the same weapon

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against each other one time.

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One day, we tried it 'cause
we thought it could be fun.

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And it went exactly how
our coach expected it to.

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And we just ended up getting mad
at each other.

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So, then, we were:
"OK! We will back off."

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What was interesting about
the OUA championship this year

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is that, when I went back
after the competition was over,

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and I calculated the points
that we had to acquire

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in order to get
our final placing,

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the Kane sisters totalled

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about 53% of the points
for the whole team.

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So, I think that's
quite phenomenal.

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The ability to problem-solve

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is a huge factor in fencing,

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because we are faced
with a series

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of technical
and tactical problems

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at lightning speed that
you have to solve on the go.

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So, I think that's good
for people in general.

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But I also think that's great
for military personnel.

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My priority is
developing officer cadets,

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using the sport of fencing

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as the tool
that brings us together.

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The students that come to attend

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the Royal Military College
are different in the sense that

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they are not just here
for fencing.

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They are not just here
for a degree.

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They have a deeper requirement,

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and that is
to serve the country.

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And so, I think the fit
is really good in terms

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of their pathway as future
officers in the Armed Forces.

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The biggest draw for RMC,
for me, was the fact

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that so many people graduate

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and have no idea
what they're gonna do,

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have no secured job.
And then, they're like:

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"OK, I'll take a master's."
And then,

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they are more in debt and
they still have no secured job.

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At RMC, we are graduating
and commissioning

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and have secured jobs
and have a pension...

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and in the fields that go
with our degrees.

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We love being together,

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but we are also excited
to explore individual lives.

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I think we might actually talk
more that we are separated.

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Because, like Aly said
a lot of times, it's like:

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"I know. I've been there.
It's OK."

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But we're going to have

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new things to teach
each other. So...

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