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Are you kidding me?!Bruce Monkhouse said:You have nothing better to do with your time while in Mexico? ullhair:
This is the BEST Recruiting thread ever! :nod:
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Are you kidding me?!Bruce Monkhouse said:You have nothing better to do with your time while in Mexico? ullhair:
Bruce Monkhouse said:You have nothing better to do with your time while in Mexico? ullhair:
army08 said:Week left and budget is getting dry... only really beach and cheap food left.. after some time in the sun, just shower and chill with some yoga. Jogging running earlier in the day. Casual swimming. I've been looking for pull up bars but can't find any. I don't feel like drinking only one day of heavy drinking on the catamaran ride over to Isla Mujeres.
Spend the evenings surfing the net. I spend a lot of time online, reading the news. I've been learning some Spanish via youtube though, as well as watching the odd stand up comedy routine.
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My budget is quite tight now.
Emilio said:Im not Mexican? ???
army08 said:I submited the application because I would follow through, I've been willing to serve for over 5 years now, however I have had, and continue to have some geopolitical reservations. I'm a moral individual, and I do have issues of conscience when it comes to human rights. [font=arial[color=black]]I was against the grounds of Afghanistan [/font] [/color] - I felt it was consolidated and the public was lied to. I have a general idea of what to expect in terms of potential military deployments over the term of service since I have had I feel enough exposure to the situational development, I don't think there will be any suprises. I also think this is really getting close to the end of the line for modern warfare.
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army08 said:you also say I was "against foreign operations". I think it is safer to directly quote my statements rather than perhaps leading to taking them out of context.
You have a valid point people who think and have reservations can be a liability. I operate on good faith. But no I didn't oppose Afghanistan
army08 said:None the less I really pissed off the wrong people, none the less, I soon after got a second opinion and it eventually sorted out as "does not support original diagnosis." The original diagnosis was total bollocks. You may have had the situation of reading a report and seeing out of context information, hearsay, and complete fabrication, well that's what its all about. I've dealt with a lot of such nonsense.
I've applied anyway online for regforce, as stated I don't think it will go through. I'm pretty sure a CSIS secret clearance will come into play eventually and if they depend on paperwork or people who have openly falsified documentation either by out of context reporting, nonexistence of evidence, or fabrication of evidence, then the clearance will fail.
Ah, and I also have an assault charge on record, for yes again, a consipracy and purgered trial in which someone said I pushed them whilst attempting to buy a pack of cigarettes, but only appearing 23, about 10 years ago. I am eligible for pardon, but I won't recognize it and I've been suggested to have a special appeal as I was unable to get the royal prerogative without exhausting appeals. The courts would not investigate or press the charges related to the purgery, which I pursued soon after, and my appeals at the time were ignored. None the less, I did not 150% honest do what they said I did. The judge even admitted in open court to making a false statement about my statements as grounds for conviction and changed the opinion that took many weeks to determine on the fly.
fake penguin said:Also its not black and white, while you can support some things, I think not only myself has reservations that aspects of Afghanistan were not the ideals that Canada or Canadians aspire to, and much was learned.
Can you explain that statement?
The true moral arbiters of proper conduct, natch.army08 said:While the public is not told the whole story, the standards exercised by NATO forces in Afghanistan were far below the expectations of the diplomats sitting in conference rooms and halls.
The University of Patchouli's Human Security faculty called - they'd like to have their selective analysis back.there have likely been books written on these things and a lifetime worth of reading in one off articles, perhaps I can recommend some of these if it is of interest to you.
The key is though that there were some nasty occurrences in Afghanistan that arn't what would be expect of Canadians in Canada. Afghanistan was a major shift in the mores of Canadians for use of their military. From the Post-War period up until around Yugoslavia Canada had a strong image as Peace Keepers. Iraq in Gulf Storm was moralized due to the media message on the liberation of Kuwait, and the war at that time didn't go much beyond protection of a country being mauled by a much larger and militarily superior state, the idea of Kuwait as just another province of Iraq was one that didn't have any authority, so it was moral. Even if it wasn't a democratic state, unlike Iraq, or as Iraq was supposedly suppose to be. The Bathist movement was a very strong movement ...blah-blah-blah... Canada has ongoing had a higher moral standard than the United States, and in opting to support a war that was started before UN authorization and contrary to the UN charter and rules of war, it presented a moral issue, and as stated when international law is ignored, the standards that law abiding and respectful Canadians expect are not being met. So in that regard with those factors, I am hopeful you have a better impression of what I meant in those statements, I don't think it is neccesary to really go more in depth than that.
Scott said:The doctor said no to firearms. I'm about to say no to the keyboard (as it applies to this site)
Fair warning.
Journeyman said:Are you kidding me?!
This is the BEST Recruiting thread ever! :nod:
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Can I just share my honest opinion?
Vanguard said:I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread! Don't mind me at all. op:
HTFUAlberta said:Kinda like watching a bus crash... You should look away but you can't!!!