Strike said:
If anyone has any more errors to submit let me know (and PM your name and rank w/ unit so I can back up the more personal claims) and I'll see what can be done about it. At least make sure that a caveat is sent out to media who request the doc.
Here, I'll give you a start:
"22 April
• IED strike against a LAV III near Gumbad kills Bombardier Myles Mansell, 5th Field
Artillery Regiment, Corporal Matthew Dinning, 2nd Military Police Platoon, Corporal Randy
Payne, CFB/ASU Wainwright Military Police Platoon, and Lieutenant William Turner,
Land Force Western Area HQ."
A simple query of any news outlet shows that these men were in G-Wagon when they were in killed. If you aren't going to get the details right, how can I trust the big picture stuff as being generally accurate and useful.
2 to 10 September
• Operation Medusa800 coalition soldiers on the ground: 1 PPCLI C Coy in the South,
coming through Bazaar-e-Panjwai, with Bravo Company in the North, fighting southward.
On one flank was Task Force 31, comprised of coalition–mainly U.S.–Special Forces and
also Task Force Grizzly, an American company; with a Danish squad in position to the west
and a Dutch Company patrolling the perimeter to the North.
C Coy, 1 PPCLI, very active in the summer, was home by this point. C Coy, 1
RCR was there, along with
A Coy of
2 PPCLI. Again, the devil is in the details. Was any fact checking done?
2 March
• Trooper Michael Hayakaze, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, is killed when his LAV III is struck
by an IED in Panjwaii.
Trooper Hayakaze was not in a LAV III when he was killed, he was in a tank. Details....
23 April
• Major Michelle Mendes, Chief of Defence Intelligence, dies in a non-combat related
incident at Kandahar Airfield.
That's quite an under-ranked CDI....
10.8 August 2009
• Ninth Rotation (Roto 8 ), Phase II, Op Athena [August 2009-February 2010], deployment of
1st Battalion PPCLI Battle Group.
1 PPCLI and its affiliated sub-units were not in Afghanistan in August - the first elements would arrive in mid-September. Ahh, who needs accuracy with dates for a chronology....
15 November
• Operation HydraJoint Canadian-Afghan operation (C Coy, 1 PPCLIled by Lt.-Col.
Jerry Walsh; 2nd Kandak, 1 Brigade, 205 Corps ANAled by Lt.-Col. Sakhi Mohammed Barriz) to clear insurgents from Nakhonay and Hajji Baba villages in the Panjwaii district, in
addition to clearing the area of IEDs.
Elements from every sub-unit of the Battle Group were on Operation HYDRA, not just C Coy.
12 February
• Corporal Joshua Baker, Loyal Edmonton Regiment, died after a training accident at a
shooting range near Kandahar.423
13 February
• Corporal Joshua Baker, Loyal Edmonton Regiment, killed in a training accident northeast of
Kandahar city.425
Did he die twice?
Anyways, that's what I picked up from a 5 minute spin through the document. You can also add numerous spelling mistakes, editing errors, and incorrect military terminology/abbreviations that one wouldn't expect in an internal document. All these mistakes listed above could have been verified through open source documents; most of them news reports (that the document used incorrectly).
I wouldn't have put my signature on this paper....
