Thank goodness some are around and up to snuff with the help of in theater traing from US forces. These Canadian Soldiers ARE Canada's men of honor.They are too few.
The last of Canadas experienced true soldiers left as Paul Hellyer , then Canada's Liberal Minister of Defense, successfully weakened the Canadian Military by amalgamating the branches of Navy, Air and Army. Most of those with actual experience in war left the CAF then in the 60's.
Shortly after that the Scottish traditioned regiments were drummed down into reserve units except for one. The Princess Patricia Light Infantry, now in Kandahar. Imposed bilingualism was the final nail in the coffin for these experienced Canadian military traditions.Only those who were bilingual could be promoted or be officers.
Here are some of the last real Canadian Soldiers of the 1960's, marching down Queen Street in Fredericton where I had spent so much time as a boy. I was there that day:
After the weakening of the Canadian military by the liberals , Pierre Trudeau's new Canadian Culture began to welcome America's draft dodgers, not understnding that this was a further blow to Canada's military culture. Thousands of Canadian men of honor went south and enlisted, fighting in the Vietnam war. ...a secret the liberal governments of Canada do not want anyone to know. Many of them were sons of the men you see marching in this picture above. I rememeber 2 thousand men of the Blackwatch regiment on parade during Remembrance days of the early sixties, all kilted carrying FN assault rifles.
So those of us who misrate the Canadian forces in America, please do so because there is truth to it, but with an understanding of how the citizens of Canada have suffered by the actions of their successive liberal governments, especially those Canadians who have honor, for we are not yet gone altogether.
Also let Americans understand that the liberal Dims of the USA would do the same to the US forces as was done in Canada. Resist them and fight them now and in the future!
Thank you America!
For those who wish to know more visit:
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/mcculloch/story1.htm
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Initially, Camp Gagetown was the home base for many army regiments, including the Black Watch and the Royal Canadian Regiment, however defence cutbacks in the 1960s saw a gradual reduction. On February 1, 1968, the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy, were merged to form the Canadian Armed Forces. Following this unification, Camp Gagetown was renamed Canadian Forces Base Gagetown (CFB Gagetown).
In the post-unification armed forces, CFB Gagetown functioned as the primary combat training centre for Force Mobile Command (renamed Land Force Command in the 1990s). In the late 1980s, CFB Gagetown began to simultaneously refer to itself as Combat Training Centre Gagetown (CTC Gagetown) and many also still refer to it as Camp Gagetown.
Increased defence spending in the 1980s saw numerous new training facilities built and ranges modernized, and this continued into the 1990s as the Canadian Forces closed obsolete bases. CFB Gagetown continues to function as the army's primary training facility, although due to risk of forest fires in recent years, live-fire training has been pushed primarily to the fall-winter-spring seasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Gagetown