2Cdo wrote:
I've worked with them on a few occasions and what I saw were troops that had a bravado and esprit de corps that was off the scale but didn't have the initiative that an average Canadian soldier has.
No offense intended, Brother, but the CF and the USMC have different ideas about what our ideal missions are. Thus you won't see a lot of enthusiasm coming from the Marines when it comes to doing the kind of missions that the CF excels at executing. On the reverse, when I've had CF attached for joint missions what I see are highly effective troops who feel and express a kind of exultation at the operational liberty they experience with a US combat detachment.
We suck at what you do best, true. But you guys rock when you come along for what we do best.
Your snipers, for instance, are
outstanding but you'll notice that their logbooks look best when they are with a US combat detachment operating under US ROE.
Your troops are exceptional, no doubt. But your commanders are almost unwilling to employ them even when they've been deployed to combat zones.
No specifics, for obvious reasons, but I've seen CF get fired at and then pull back on orders arguably to 'calm things down' and then I've seen US forces get fired at and the typical concurrence is to advance on the enemy and pacify them by force. The Brits tend to operate the same way, except for certain organizations in their military.
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