The Canadian Armed Forces are in truly dire straits and it is time for senior leadership to admit this to their political masters. It is also time for Canada to start begging NATO allies for help. We can no longer fix the mess on our own.
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10 years of liberal waste and wokeness. You voted for this.
#1 problem , turdeau and his liberal buddies
I can't believe this is happening to our military
I mean these soldiers are out there sweating ,training and working hard to defend this country at least the federal gov could give them everything they need.
They protecting Canadians and the gov s ass too,
So sad, god bless our military forces
My dad would be disgusted if he saw what was going on today !
He was a war vet
Federal gov needs to step up to the plate and take care of the military they fighting for him , so sad he don't care !
Dude, after releasing after 40 years of service, I can assure you that there isn't enough money to cooerce me back into a training system!
Trudeau and many more destroyed our Great Armed Forces to only be a paper Dragon.
As a 30 year veteran of the Canadian forces I’m utterly embarrassed I get my haircut on the base used to see the shit I see so it doesn’t surprise me sometimes I don’t even tell people I served in the Canadian forces I just say I’m a mechanic on civilian street
Wait, why buy someone else new shit to have their old shit?
How about get rid of this communist woke mind virus that has been infiltrated the top command down start getting the troops squared away no purple hair or SJW BS clean cut a shaved. No matter your religion head shaved and to wear the same head dress as everyone else….Females squared away ie bring back segregation of the sexes. Just to name a few
Over burdened with way too many officers … in 23 years … I served under 2 good officers. The rest were useless..
I am 60 now, and would defend Canada, but not the current political party (Liberals) seeing that they have consistently the cause of the demise of the CAF with their funding cuts, and woke agenda.
Raise our contribution to 2% of GDP immediately. Engage more security groups to remove the backlog of background checks.
As a medic who was in the recruitment centre
in Edmonton for 6 months in 2022 I can say that it's not the medical side that is the problem.
How can you expect a "suitable candidate" who probably has a full time job and is a productive citizen to accomodate the 0800 1500 hours of
a recruitment office?
Recruitment needs to step up and start working on alonger schedule with hours that are designed for these suitable candidates. Don't make them take a day off work to do a 1 hour medical.
We have a operation called Op Bold Eagle every 6 months. We work on a weekend at a reserves recruitment centre and process 30+ candidates.
When I was working at the Edmonton RC we would have 6-8 part 1&2 medicals a day and 1-4 candidates would be ablw to make it. I can here you say "well if it was a priority…" Yeah yeah Sgt how many years have you served… Im sure all your troops right now are DAG Green and hardcore killers.
If we treat recruitment as a priority and actually start accomidating the ppl we need. Ppl who want to serve their country and are medically fit BECAUSE they are productive and BECAUSE they have made things like not abandoning their own work/ and team a priority. We should see more medically fit applicants not just apply but be processed in less than 2 weeks.
Right now we have the best hours for those who are unemplyed, not going to school and living with their parents. We are simply not taking this issue seriously and id like to see more initiative from the OCs and COs, whose duty is to the people of Canada, start suggesting what needs to be done and not what they would like to make the job as cushy as possible.
Well said. Now which one of our elected leaders has the backbone and the balls to do something significant!…..jc.
There's nothing the government, this, that, ANY government can do to solve the personnel issue so long as there are legitimately better employment opportunities for Canadians in the civilian world. Unless they're one of the specialist branches (SARtechs are paid the highest among the enlisted ranks, a corporal with SAR makes as much per month as a Major in the infantry and its more than a Captain who's a pilot in the Air Force), there are better wages to be had for such skill sets. The basic officer cadet at the Royal military colleges is making less per month than a basic full time employee at Mcdonalds. A waitress at a pub typically earns more than a private / aviator / sailor 2nd/3rd class does per month.
Canada needs to remember the quote: "you go to war with the army you have, not not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
Sorry, I don't understand the "Winchester" reference. Can someone fill me in?
With the CAF being treated like a forgotten orphan you would think there might be monies for other things. Cash and technology to help China go green? PARDON! Canada has become so un-reliable and insignificant we are rarely asked to partake in anything meaningful.
This will hurt trade with other countries as we are seen as sympathizers to the enemy and non-supporters to our friends.
God you get more and more biased every Op-Ed video. While you've been decrying personnel cutbacks since 1991, its clear your out of touch with facts about our equipment. As someone else pointed out, the M777 howizers were new off the assembly line, we queue-jumped a USMC order to take a number that was slated for them (and we only donated 4 of them to Ukraine). We first deployed a squadron of our own Leopard C2s which were plenty of tank for the theatre at the time but then we borrowed the 20 Leopard 2A6Ms when the perceived IED problem got worse. We also only donated 8 of the non-upgraded 2A4s which we had been using for training vehicles, not the modified 2A4M CANs or the 2A6M. Yes The CH-47Ds were bought used but the 15 CH-57Fs which replaced them were bought new. The LAV fleet is being totally revamped with 616 LAV 6s and another 360 LAVASVs for support roles, plus there's the purchase of the 500 TAPVs. Despite the years of war correspondance you're still just an ex-army private who hasn't served in over three decades grasping at straws repeating the same things over and over.
It's sick how people think we should be supporting Ukraine or anyone else in the world.
Discipline discipline discipline
Je me souviens
As a Canadian I'm embarrassed….Second hand used military crap….
Only Jesus can save you!!! Stop running away from him!!
Canada's military is becoming a laughing stock
at least to me it is
It may be time for Canada to call it quits and finally acknowledge that the Canadian Armed Forces have no relevance in a multicultural Canada.
I don't have any faith in CAF aka the gae brigade.
That covid party money could have done a lot good instead of buying experimental flask of poison from bigpharma