Canadians killed in Kandahar
 

Terry,

When I was in the Gulf in '99 we exercised regularly with the other Yank ships in the battlegroup. Everything scenario you can think of. Even more on our own. Drills for shipboard training. Even tho we were "In Theater".

One thing about the military is if you aren't actually doing what you are trained to do you are practicing. Over and Over agian. You can never do something too many times in simulation. And if you aren't practicing you are sleeping.

Everywhere I have gone we were never too long without some form of training. Off of Haiti we still exercised in between boardings. In the Adriatic. Everywhere.

What really maddens me about his whole thing is that the pilot was told NOT to bomb. He did anyways. And this isn't the only time this has happened. How many know that only a short while ago another hotshot pilot saw Canadian troops on the ground and was barely called off of bombing them into oblivion??? This wasn't the first time this happened. And it won't be the last.

There obviously wasn't ENOUGH control over those flyboys. The best way to describe them IMO is Gunslingers. They just want to kill. There is a fine line between doing this as they are meant to do and gunning for blood. He said he was taking enemy fire. How could he have been. They were shooting at inert targets on a range on the ground. All it comes down to is that he wanted his 'glory'. Well he has it. I hope he never comes near me. I'll show him what I think of his glory shot. It killed people on his side because he didn't want to listen to a direct order and he wanted to be known as the guy who wiped out a bunch of Osama's buddies when he is back at his real job standing around the water cooler after his weekend stint with the reserves. :rolleyes:

Well he wiped some people out. Allies. Canadians. In a marked training area.

I hope he can't sleep at night. :mad:

[ 18 April 2002, 20:37: Message edited by: DJ88 ]

Canadians killed in Kandahar
 

Hello,

I have to second Darren. In the military, work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep.... oh still more work, eat, sleep.

Remember it's Princess Patricia Canadian "Light Infantry". "Light Infantry" do not have the ammunition and equipment to target and fire at F-16. There are anti-tank weapons and stuff but no anti-aircraft artillery here. There are the occasional optical tracking rockets but I doubt they were kitted for that in this operation.

I guess best way to describe this for those who don't know is imagine you are flying at high speed in an aircraft and see someone doing paintball on the ground. Would you think they are a threat?

Canadians killed in Kandahar
 

I am also ****ed off the Bush cannot even warrant this with any attention. He has given only a small indication of the problem during his “busy” day. I know that majority of the American’s are just as upset about this as we are but it seems their government isn’t. of course if they were a bunch of Mexicans instead of Canadian then Bush would have shut down the country for a day of mourning. After all it was Bush who said that Mexico was the American’s #1 trading partner.

I am also upset that the US propaganda machine call “CNN” seems not to think this is as important as Blake getting arrested for murdering his wife or Robert Duvail breaking his ribs on a movie set. Typical of any military blunder. Hide it don’t talk about it and it will disappear.

I can bet anyone $20.00 that in 6 months from now nothing will be solved and our A%*&*&E Prime Minister speaking out the corner of his mouth will tell us that everything is being looked into and he feels that the American’s (Military) are treating it seriously.

What a joke this whole thing is. He should be brought before the Canadian Military justice and be sentenced to life imprisonment in a military jail, but only after he went to Edmonton to explain to the victims families about what happened.