Search results

When I speak of being polluted by the peacekeeping myth, I will break it down for you.  The young soldiers of today know little of what happened in yogo or cyprus back in the day.  While the media was broadcasting how great and noble peacekeeping was, these dude and dudettes were at school, or...

refusing!!!

They are a different breed of soldier in a sense that most of them haven't been involved with peacekeeping of any kind, nor have they wanted to.  The Ptes and Cpls in todays army joined for the reason of going to Afghanistan and fighting a war and killing the enemy.  that is what makes them...

I had 4 soldiers from my platoon killed on Aug 03 last year, and 10 wounded.  I know what stress is.  Everybody is different.  Like I said before, I had good buddies around me.  The difference between your husbands decompression and mine is this; We were the first to got through the...

Well then say what ya gotta say and can the sarcasm.  All that does is get people pissed off.  My point is, wounded soldiers getting paid all their allownaces for theater when they are not in theater is wrong!  You get hit, you get medevaced.  And as stated in this thread earlier, they get more...

Why woulnt they want to get back in the fight?  As for the money, thats what they say, so who am I to question whether they will or will not.  But as for getting back at timmy taliban, you bet your a**.  Like I said, a different breed of soldier.  Warfighters, each an every one of them.  And it...

Sarcasm is a wonderful tool. is'nt it?  Well done on using it so eloquently. The soldiers that fight in Afghanistan today are different from soldiers of other wars and peacekeeping missions.  The way that you sarcastically ridicule the possibility of a soldier being too damn proud to expect a...

Exactly. 

Alcohol is an excuse, nothing more.  If you know that you can't handle it, don't touch it!  If you still want to tie one on, ask a buddy to look after you.  DO NOT use it as an excuse. The tour is 6-7 months long.  But it is not all combat all the time. In fact, the old story of 99% boredom and...

Strongly disagree with this policy, as do people I know who were wounded.  It is a reaction to public opinion, a public who does not ahve all the facts all the time.  It is simple, if you are no longer in a dangerous area, you no longer warrant danger pay.  If not in theater, then no more...

Apparently, and I stress the apparently, the dudes got drunk, fought police and got arrested.  Big deal.  They broke the law of the host nation and will pay the price accordingly, which is bloody expensive I might add.  Blowing off steam is one thing, but I hope that this doesn't turn into a...

Just stating HOW it is these days from a ref force inf perspective.  Makes it quite clear that this attitude is applied to anyone, regardless of where they come from.

When it comes to the intergrattion of res troops in reg untis, there will always initially be the us and them attitude.  I am guilty as anyone on this.  That soon transforms into a different mindset, once the res soldiers have showcased their capabilities.  one of the main things for res force...

I find it hard to believe that we will see massed assault and arty missions again.  Those have been replaced by IED and suicide bombers who strike not only to kill, but in an attempt to install fear.  The enemy is a vreature of the past, and he has fought long enough against enough people to...

Combat is combat, no matter what war you are in.  As far as I can see, the hun popping off a few rounds of small arms is just the same as johnny jundi playing silly buggers.  Keep in mind, Jerry wasnt using sulcide bombers or IEDs either.  There is combat stress.  A Sgt told me that cbt stress...

I disagree with the comment saying the army is liable.  How?  Each person is different, and we all know that sometime in our service we may be exposed to horrible things.  History makes that quite clear.  How many times have you heard the phrase 'War is Hell'?  For anyone who joins the forces...

The army says you go for 6 months, then you go.  I am a firm believer that if you VOLUNTEER to stay longer, despite all the possible hazards etc, then you are the only person liable for whatever mental health issues thta may develop.  That is not being said as a hardass, I have seen war as well...

I have absolutley no problem with res troops going overseas.  From feb-aug 06 i had two in my section and more in the platoon as part og TF1-06.  But what concerns me, and I think this needs to be cleared up, is the fact that apparently by 2009, all reg force soldiers will have been to...

Mr Dion wants us to stop conducting combat and concentrate on reconstruction.  So what happens when the soldiers get attacked while building a school, ambushed on the way to hand out aid?  Are they expected not to fight back?  Mr Dion has some extremely poor advisiors me thinks.  Security comes...

In many levels of Government and the media there is too much emphasis placed on WHY we are there and what we SHOULD be accomplishing. There seems to be very little understanding that we ARE there and we ARE doing things that ARE making a difference.  Comments such as this article should be...