BARRIE Handling a weapon like a C7 rifle is one of the many lessons recruits will undertake during their ten weeks of basic training at Base Borden, but Day one begins with a lesson on COVID-19. When they wear their masks, how they sanitize when they are done in the bathroom, everything, says Captain Russell Storring, an instructor at CFB Borden. The whole process is explained to them in the first couple days, and its reiterated throughout the course. Basic training was put on pause because of the pandemic, but with protocols now in place, the routine has returned, and now the 27 recruits have to do it all.