[arm958]

In fact I have deployed with Canadian troops on an exercise in Greece in 1979. What is your experience with Canadian troops?

Off the top of my head, I've deployed with German, British, Polish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Danish, Macedonian, Norwegian, French, and Polish soldiers. I've shared sleeping quarters and eating facilities with all of the above. Big deal. If anything, I learned to respect most of them a lot more after working with them (I don't know about French politicians, but I can assure you that French soldiers are not surrender monkeys.)What does that have to do with your entirely undeserved insult of the Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan? You do know that Canadian sniper teams were lauded by U.S. soldiers and commanders for there skill and bravery in Afghanistan, don't you?

1979? I imagine half of the U.S. and Canadian Armies were potheads back then. You know I'm right.

[Old Student]

Somewhere between 1979 and 1982 I worked with a former Canadian paratrooper who had moved south and joined the USAF. He was a photographer for the Thunderbirds, our Aerial Demonstration Team, and then moved to the Base Photo lab. Most assuredly NOT a surrender monkey! It is the Canadian GOVERNMENT that does the surrender-monkey bit. Their soldiers are tough, competent, and agressive, they just work for the wrong country.