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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
it is ####ing horrible. I don't think that the general populace has any idea of the operation requirements the military has been under since Roto 0 in Yugo.
It has been non-stop of 20+ years, flat out, balls to the wall.
The damage to Kit has been huge, but the damage and draining of people is even worse.
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The funny thing is that the current government is going to remove the jets and replace them with with nearly 900 training personal on the ground.
First of all, and as stated properly by the Conservatives, that kind of mass deployment is murderous on a forces that basically had its equipment beaten to sh%t, and the force exhausted.
Second of all, and this makes me laugh, we have a romatized view of what training is. You know we teach them to shoot guns, and march all pretty. But training doesn't all happen behind the wire. Training involves special forces operations going on patrol and going into danger areas to train troops there. We've already seen Canadian Operators in active battle against ISIS and we'll see it again.
You can't sit in a camp and teach someone to patrol and do intelligence gathering and select targets and call in air strikes. You know this UCB. You have to go out on that patrol with them teach them field craft and target evaluation and be able to monitor how your trainees are doing on the ground.
If you're going to to this the training will fail every time.
A 900 troop deployment will wear out our troops and put them in harms way again. That's fine its what they do and what they're paid for, but I think the Liberals are being dis-engenous in how they're making everyone think that there's no danger involved and they won't be involved in the fighting.
They will be involved in the fighting and there will be far more mission creep then there was with the air force deployment.