I was arguing with a soldier that was complaining about being deployed to help during floods in the Ottawa region, they were saying that they had better things to do including training…
So yeah, I think the mentality has changed or maybe it was a right wing nut job that was there to learn to handle a rifle and that’s it…
From my point of view the army in Canada is the federal “labor force” much more than a defense force and those who insist on wanting to be grunts with rifles should be assigned to the UN peacekeepers for a bit to see how they love getting deployed on the ground in zones where shit hit the fan for real…
Yeah, that’s the deal. We were taught that ‘armed’ is just an adjective on ‘forces’, and that we were a force that happened to be armed: a force first and armed second.
Training is neat. I’d bet after a while, though, saving lives can be done more directly and effectively with a shovel and a radio than synchronized walking to a range and back home to polish a bayonet.
I’m sorry that solder represented Canada so poorly, even to ourselves. We can become better again.
I mentioned the peacekeepers and that’s something that made me proud of our army back when I was a kid, seeing them trying to help in Bosnia I felt like our army was doing something great for the world… Not so much today and sadly the peacekeepers aren’t what they used to be either…
I was arguing with a soldier that was complaining about being deployed to help during floods in the Ottawa region, they were saying that they had better things to do including training…
So yeah, I think the mentality has changed or maybe it was a right wing nut job that was there to learn to handle a rifle and that’s it…
From my point of view the army in Canada is the federal “labor force” much more than a defense force and those who insist on wanting to be grunts with rifles should be assigned to the UN peacekeepers for a bit to see how they love getting deployed on the ground in zones where shit hit the fan for real…
Yeah, that’s the deal. We were taught that ‘armed’ is just an adjective on ‘forces’, and that we were a force that happened to be armed: a force first and armed second.
Training is neat. I’d bet after a while, though, saving lives can be done more directly and effectively with a shovel and a radio than synchronized walking to a range and back home to polish a bayonet.
I’m sorry that solder represented Canada so poorly, even to ourselves. We can become better again.
I mentioned the peacekeepers and that’s something that made me proud of our army back when I was a kid, seeing them trying to help in Bosnia I felt like our army was doing something great for the world… Not so much today and sadly the peacekeepers aren’t what they used to be either…