• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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…

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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…