ExFlyer

It is not a bill. It is just private members paper...nothing will become of it. What panic artists here..LOL

And will get nowhere except with the cons here LOL

Because. WTF does that mean??? My opinion is to cut off Haiti from anything Canadian. Don't like it? Tough shit.

And that is not counting how much money and support we gave after the earthquake. That corrupt country needs top be cut off and we need to stop allowing Hatians into Canada.

Your "Canada" maybe LOL In our Canada we call yours Quebec LOL The problem in Haiti are the lazy ass men sitting on stoops smoking instead of working.

It seems insane to me that Haitians are a hopeless cause by self inflicted wounds. People like Trudeau, Macron or Biden and their citizens are tired of shoving money into a hopeless cause.

What practices am I defending? I have never accused you of anything, let alone of not being a good soldier. A military members death is from many actions, be they in combat, training, operations or even suicide. None of which is a greater tragedy than the other. The cause is varied and no single action/event/reason can be blamed. We have had numerous discussions and yes, we have disagreed but that is what discussions are about. If we agreed on everything there would not be discussions, there would be a comment and that is it. Just because my experience is different to yours and others does on no way mean I am on high ground, it just means we experienced different things. We all have opinions based on what we have done/seen/read/experienced. I do take vigorous actions against some wannabes and say so frequently but, he is an exception. For sure we have had very different career paths. I have been to every Air base, both Navy bases and a few Army bases top to bottom and West to East of this Country and do have a flavour of the Military, in general. As a private tech in a squadron and in in many parts of Canada to a CWO in various roles and projects in NDHQ. No, I have never been in combat but, have seen and experienced my share of deaths. You comment about PP making it better is a wish at best, as in my tenure neither conservative nor liberal have been military proponents. Both have done only what is necessary when all else fails. This country has only once since I joined been pro military and that was when we started losing lives in Afghanistan. That was a short lived time frame though. We pulled out of there 10 years ago. Canada has not been in combat since. Have we lost people since? Yes, for a variety of reasons.

No one is going to sue Canada for the pittance we give. LOL

And I also have stated I have little experience with Army, only Air Force and a wee bit of Navy. Issue? I am only providing my experience, which is quite different than yours. Yes, being overweight has it's consequences. All I was trying to get across is that this is not a new phenomenon, there have been overweight people in the Military way back when i joined. We do not have squadrons the sizes of American squadrons. All our squadrons are quite small. I am very familiar with SAR so I mentioned them. When I was in Edmonton 447 and 450 Tac Hel Chinook squadrons only had 4 each. 408 had I think 12. 435 Hercs had only 5. I was in Edmonton during which we crashed 3 Hercs, 1 Twin Otter and 2 or 3 Hueys.. A number of friends aboard them. We are not a big Air Force. Things change, all the time.

I( was an aviation tech and then a flight engineer. We never let things pass. As a tech, the consequences of letting things go are far too dangerous, many people can perish. Our lives were on the line every time we stepped into an aircraft. You do not let faults pass, you cannot pull over at the nearest cloud to fix your mistake. Unfortunately, I have had many friends perish in crashes, be it in Labrador helicopter crashes, Hercules crashes and in Cormorant crashes. Not including SAR techs that perished in operations or serious career ending injuries. So I have had tragedies as well. Of course, as you say, none of the Airmen I dealt or worked or served or rubbed elbows with were "real soldiers", just Military men and women doing what they chose to do and their duty to the County. I am not or never been on "high ground" but have carried caskets of my fallen friends on the low ground. I do not paint you in any way, i just said you are very Army centric. There is more to the Military than Army. There were risks when you joined and there were risks when I joined and, there will always be risks when in the Military.

Like I said, you are a disgrace to the Uniform. It is good your turned it in. So now, as a disgraced ex military all you can do is besmirch, demean and, belittle it and the many men and women proudly still serving this Country. Yes, you are a total disgrace. tu es culus

You are a disgrace to the Uniform.

Yes, your attitude is exactly what they say "warrior image is rooted in an outdated hero archetype which emphasizes combat/kinetic functions performed by those who are strong, stoic, and physically resilient (along with being white, male, and cisgender)." Your constant linking to 1, 2, 300 year old regiments and banter is so not now. Get with the times. Get out of your basement and smell today LOL Link is needed, not your cut and past, otherwise yours is just another rectal pluck..

And you doogie, you make my point loud and clear. "And ex military do nothing but make is sound worse, crap on the military, cry at all the faults and do not encourage anyone to join to serve out Country. " Ex part timers video playing basement dwellers like you do nothing for the Military. If you recommend anything to a Zoomer other than an office job and video games, "he would just roll his eyes and laugh at you"

Haiti is a waste of time and effort. We already have Quebec, why would we want another French problem??? We (the world) have sent billions upon billions of dollars for decades and sent police and sent military and this country is still a peice of shit. I have friends that had to go down there and said they are the laziest people on earth. They do nothing to help themselves . The men sit on stoops and smoke and then go screw the women and make babies.

And ex military do nothing but make is sound worse, crap on the military, cry at all the faults and do not encourage anyone to join to serve out Country.

You may have used the word "military" but your comments are very much Army (and specifically infantry) related. Fitness levels used to be tested every year,. Don't know about now. Way back when, there were many "300 lb" military people too (well not 300 but certainly well overweight). Clerks, supply techs, vehicle techs and drivers, cooks, aviation tech and so on. Out of shape folks have always been there. Over my years, the PER system changed quite regularly. It was never a static system. Lets not re-hash military pay again. I do not know about Army, let alone 2RCR. I do known that as an aviation tech, our shifts were 12 hours long most of the time, 7 days on, 3 off and 7 nights on, 4 off. Serviceability depends on the fleet and flying requirement. No parts is the primary reason for sitting on the ground. Aircrew wanting to fly (yes, wanting) is another. I have a Godson in Cold Lake (an avionics tech) and he says that even before they bought the Aussie aircraft, they were not buying new components and letting contractors just repair the components. They also are only keeping minimum aircraft flyable as there are not and have not been any tasking in a very long time. I have a guy that used to work for me that is a lead FE at a Tac Hel Sqn. He is also not flying much. Flying to keep up aircrew qualifications is the main reason for flying. Oh and 50% serviceability is not unusual, especially if you have small squadrons. In my first squadron, 30% was normal. 3 Labradors, one in heavy maintenance , one broken and one on primary standby was not unusual. The Buffalo's were the same. 407 Sqn next door to us was also in the same situation. One on patrol, one in maintenance and one available for training depending what functions were actually working. I remember one year in Edmonton when 447 Sqn was having a change of Command parade and they could not get a Chinook aircraft in the air for a fly past, they towed them past the dias LOL. Their aircraft were on the ground for over a month quite regularly. Yes, "my Military" is long gone but I sure wished I had the pay back then that they have now. My pension would for sure be better, almost doubled.

Who except you gives a rats a$$ about the french foreign legion? Bottom line is out Army is short of personnel. With bitter and twisted basement dwelling part timers like you doing nothing but sh1t all over out military and post videos of hundreds of years old army crap, how do you think they are going to recruit?

the French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own. Legionnaires need war, certainly, and Afghanistan is winding down. But there’s always the hopeless battle against rogue gold miners in French Guiana . . . https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables

So doogie, why are they not in the Army?? It is all crap. No one wants to be a soldier...except in your video games LOL So, if they are cursed...move on.

What a load of crap. You have no soldiers because no one wants to be a soldier....period. Just like no one wants to be an Airman or Sailor.

It is not this government that started any decline in military recruiting. it has been going on for decades. How many "golden handshakes" or FRP's or whatever else have we gone through during our tenure in the Military? All government screwed us. I think opening up to "purple hair, huge beards, manbuns, or that identify as multi genders" is as a result of no one joining so, they relax requirements and standard. Relaxing standards is also a decades old thing. Remember when we had to reduce requirements and standards to get women to become infantry or fire fighters or pilots or military police or on ships? Again, you are narrowly focused to Army only when the military is all branches and the relaxing of standards affects all branches. There are standards that are specific to different occupations, not all military occupations require the same standards. As far as I know, PER's are still required and are merit based. If I recall, only the Army had field promotions given by Commanders. I sat on quite a few promotion boards and titties and skin colour were not factors. (in the aviation trades). Nothing funny about military being from Newfoundland or Maritimes, they were provinces with the lowest employment opportunities. Those were the times where folks did not get paid to do nothing so, if ya wanted to eat, ya had to find a job and the Military was a job (as were oil sand work in Alberta, many many maritimers there too).

I disagree. Here in Ottawa, 2 of the safe injection sites are shut down because they cannot service all the addicts. There are more addicts now than ever before. There is no consequence to being an addict and with free drugs, it has become an entertainment choice. The safe injection sites and free drug program is an abject failure. Has done nothing except make more people addicted to drugs.

Who is surprised???

Email reveals that Ottawa told Canada's top soldier not to call budget changes 'cuts' "Canada's top soldier was told he couldn't use the word "cut" in a memo to soldiers about the federal government's budget plans for the military, newly disclosed documents reveal." https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/email-reveals-that-ottawa-told-canadas-top-soldier-not-to-call-budget-changes-cuts/article_7080ea7a-dc96-11ee-babc-dbcc3e0f74df.html