The Army (Specifically the Canadian Forces)

[cleverlymadeup]

Just a mildly intriguing thought, where are the Canadians deployed at the moment? More specifically, what are the actual odds of someone having the chance to kill someone else in battle. The only Australian's I am aware of involved in conflict are our elite S.A.S. troops (not the Saturdays and Sundays reservists, the other ones) and I didn't even know Canada had an army even though logic dictated they would.

ummm we're in afghanistan, if you havne't noticed from the thread, that's where the bulk of the forces are

a large chunk of the UN forces are actually canadian and we mostly do peace keeping, much like the aussies during ww1 and ww2 we were under british command cept for a few battles, which we kicked serious butt in, i personally like the one where we tunneled under some germans and made a cave under them and then blew it up

treated well enough by your fellow countrymen.

i try to treat the army ppl well, unless of course they belong to Princess Patricia's LIGHT Infantry or they're part of a mobile shower unit and then i poke fun of them cause well look at what units they belong to

 

[raemiel]

The only Australian's I am aware of involved in conflict are our elite S.A.S. troops (not the Saturdays and Sundays reservists, the other ones)

Australian troops do a lot of work in the pacific with timor and all that. I've got a friend who signed up as a grunt and has since been posted in the Solomons a couple of times. The army has been good for him discipline-wise, but he has come back messed up each time after a tour of duty. Australian troops are also in Afghanistan and Iraq additional to the SAS, though they've started returning home and pulling out at last.

All that stuff saying a soldier doesn't question if the war is right or not is true. But that is when they're on the ground and following orders. One can still debate the right and (quite obvious) wrongs of the current conflict if one is a soldier or a civillian.

Another friend of mine is a reservist and spouts all the rubbish about doing something for his country. There is no chance of him being posted anywhere unless he says he wants to be. My friend who has served overseas never bursts forth with rhetoric on duty to his country.

Honestly, if you want to enlist then do it for yourself. Don't feel a debt to your country or to the people who are keeping us 'safe'; they enlisted themselves and hopefully thought as much about the consequences as you hopefully are too.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Australians are little known for our submarine fleet

Australian submariners are possibly the worlds best (they protect an island, they have to be) and at any time they are deployed in theaters of war around the world, they are not talked about often but they are well equipped, well trained and time worn into some of the most lethal marine vessels to date.

If in was to join the military, it would be the Navy... but not as a submariner, ive seen some of the innards of a sub and rubbing against other people day in and out does not appeal all that much.

 

[Gitsnik]

Australians are little known for our submarine fleet

Australian submariners are possibly the worlds best (they protect an island, they have to be) and at any time they are deployed in theaters of war around the world, they are not talked about often but they are well equipped, well trained and time worn into some of the most lethal marine vessels to date.

If in was to join the military, it would be the Navy... but not as a submariner, ive seen some of the innards of a sub and rubbing against other people day in and out does not appeal all that much.

Yeah I worked for the Aussie Sub Corp. and still spend my time saying "damned squids".

@Raemil: Know what you mean about reservists, have some here in the office and it's not pretty.

 

[stompy]

Yeh, with a kid on the way, I'd think it'd be quite selfish of you to enlist, just so you can do what you want, while you leave your partner without support and your daughter without her father around.

There are other ways of serving one's country than joining the military.