I wonder if that is the reason nobody wants to join and others won't stick it out after initial engagement. Let's face it and be realistic. 4 terms of the liberal/ socialist disintegration of Canadian society doesnβt provide anywhere near a warm fuzzy for most people. If the government doesnβt care for you, why would you care about the government. Canadians didnβt leave Canada, the government left them.
Well I have a bunch of guys I work with on the weekends from 1 PPCLI & 3 PPCLI, and a Sgt in the Lord Strats, who are all very much planning on leaving the CAF once their contracts are up.
Obviously the broader reasons are there.
But there's also the not so broad & not so obvious reasons they've each decided they are done...
- No live fire while qualifying on the new pistol (they managed to save $30M annually by changing/limiting PLD, but don't have enough money to buy ammo for the folks qualifying on the new pistol?)
- The Army actively interfering in the lives of members outside of work. (Maybe its more accurate to put that on their unit's CoC tho)
Example - a guy asked his CoC for an afternoon off to go to a specialist appointment about some minor matter. I cant even remember if it was an injury or not...
Long story short the whole situation escalated to the point where he was given some time off for medical leave (which he didn't really want) but he still worked at the bar one or two nights a week...his unit didn't like that...
So members of his CoC would come to the bar a few nights a week to make sure he wasn't working.
And then they started sending their wives in to quickly report back whether he was working or not.
And then the wives had their friends start popping into the bar to look for him...
All this shady shit behind his back just to make sure he wasn't sitting working (which is just sitting at the table near admission scanning ID's) plus they made his life difficult at the regiment for a few months...
Cool guy. Easy going. Quite capable, and extremely competent. Friendly. Personable.
Think he's resigning? Nope.
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One of our other guys is a Sgt at his unit, and he isn't extending his contract either. ("Too much bullshit..." is his reason why)
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We have a TACHEL MCpl who's thinking of extending his contract and putting in for a transfer, but who's also very much thinking of leaving the CAF...
So a decade of Liberal woke nonsense has definitely hurt our military, we all know that. And it definitely is playing a huge role in our challenge to attract & retain talented young people.
But we shouldn't underestimate the role individual units play in getting their members to give a big middle finger to the CAF & leave.