To be very frank, from my perspective, and I don't think it's changed, and also Colonel Hetherington's as a fellow CO, the time to try to get fit or even maintain fitness isn't when you're deployed into theatre and engaged in combat operations, as we were. The corollary to that is the absolute insistence on the high degree of physical fitness and preparation before going into theatre. So for that ten months I described, physical fitness was implicit, and doing hard physical training was implicit in all aspects of that ten-month training.
It depends really where you are. If you're back at Kandahar airfield, there are certainly a lot of opportunities to keep fit, if you're not in a front-line type of job. Weights are brought forward, and that sort of thing. But the reality of being deployed forward is a fairly limited ability to keep to a fitness program as you would do back in Canada. So it's imperative to be fit when you show up.
Having said that, walking around all day with 70 pounds of combat gear on assists your physical fitness level to some degree anyway.