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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tank purchase to cost $1.3 billion for questionable results |
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:39 am
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| The continuing excuse for tanks has been to protect solders driving on Afghan roads. But tanks can't carry soldiers, they're useless for that job. A tank is a big cannon on tracks, there's no room for infantry; that may seem obvious but I'm amazed at how many people don't understand that. Tanks are... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Foreign Deployable Force |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:19 pm
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| I really do hate that term. We're not peacekeepers, it's just a role we fulfill. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tank purchase to cost $1.3 billion for questionable results |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:11 pm
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| Our current fleet is 30 years old, we were going to buy new ones in the early 90's but that was scrapped along with the Sea King replacement project. I have difficulty putting 100% faith in such a biased article, that clearly comes from a biased anti-military site as well. Actually, new tanks were ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tank purchase to cost $1.3 billion for questionable results |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:58 pm
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| We need APCs such as the LAV III, not tanks. As the article states, everytime a soldier died from an IED there was a call to buy tanks, but tanks can't carry infantry so they're useless to protect infantry from IEDs. We have some old Leopard 1 tanks. From the time we purchased them, they were never... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Canada to get own Green Berets? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:43 pm
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| Ditto to the British Para's. It's all in how you control the actions of the unit. You can punish or clean house without disbanding an entire regiment. They were simply the fall guys for high commanders that didn't want to bite the bullet on their own mistakes. |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Any serving or former military people here? |
| CanadianTrucker |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:41 pm
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| I'm a reserve Officer with the Grey and Simcoe Foresters. However I'm on a Class B contract as a Pl Comd teaching infantry courses. |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Foreign Deployable Force |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:39 pm
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| *pokes the fires Couple things. We have more than 8,000 personnel in the army, it's actually around 22,000, the army isn't just the combat arms (as an infantry officer I suddenly feel dirty extending that olive branch to the wogs). Also, we do have a presence in the arctic, they're called the Ranger... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Any serving or former military people here? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:20 pm
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| 5 1/2 currently serving Infantry |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: Canada to get own Green Berets? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:17 pm
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| It's amusing to look back on some posts and see the train of thought. CSOR being co-located with JTF-2 instead of in Pet etc. The other purpose other than supporting JTF-2 in a more direct role, is being able to deploy a company within 48 hours, the current Bn's don't have this capability and we nee... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tank purchase to cost $1.3 billion for questionable results |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:46 pm
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Appearances can be deceiving!
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Tank purchase to cost $1.3 billion for questionable results |
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:36 pm
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| I do wonder if the tank purchase was wise. I am one of those people who believes the tank's role has been replaced with other technologies. On, the open battlefield, I don't see how useful it could be against rocket batteries or artillary since they will still have more range. Helicopters and aircr... |
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