dy teams.Sixthly is aggressiveness: Most of the population at RMC is type A, with a high drive for competition. Cadets are trained to be aggressive and intense in everything they do. Recruit camp is all about getting the new recruits to adapt to driving themselves aggressively in all facets of college life. Competition between the squadrons are encouraged and reinforced with rewards like exemption from certain duties. Mandatory sports encourage people to engage in aggressive physical activities. Drill in itself demands a command presence and as such an aggressive manner of commanding or obeying commands.Finally there is the characteristic of stability: The maintaining of status quo is a large part of RMC culture. There are countless traditions and rituals that are not interfered with simply for the sake of maintaining stability. While history is viewed linearly, the future is not, as one cannot look straight into the future along a projected path. The future is uncertain and thus prediction is based on a series of probabilities. At RMC the culture is conservative in nature such that people try to keep doing things as they were done in the past. Even though trying to force a linear path on the college routine may conflict with the changing times. It is for these reasons that the new Enhanced Leadership Model has met so much opposition from cadets and staff alike. The entire Canadian Forces have adopted new policies yet RMC lags behind in implementation by almost a decade. A good example of this can be the harassment and alcohol type policies, which are only coming about in the year 2000, when they were to be implemented in the early 90s. Another example is that of the College Code of Conduct, which used many measures that were not in accordance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1982. Clearly stability at RMC is valued deeply.Having listed examples of the college's cultural characteristics, it is only appropr...
