Posted on 04/04/2023 2:59:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Canadian soldiers are training Ukrainian military, but a backlog with the Canadian Forces reimbursing the soldiers for food costs is causing financial hardship for families back home
Canadian troops in Poland are having to buy their own food but aren’t being reimbursed, causing hardships for their families back home.
The Canadian soldiers are in Poland to train Ukrainian military personnel but since Canada did not send military cooks on the mission, the troops were told to eat at local restaurants.
But there is a massive backlog with the Canadian Forces reimbursing the soldiers for those costs, sending some of them thousands of dollars into debt. Their families contacted this newspaper to complain about the situation they say is causing financial stress at home.
After this newspaper inquired about the situation, the Canadian Forces confirmed Monday that there are problems with payments of per diems and the reimbursement of other expenses. The Canadian Forces is now promising to speed up the process.
“We apologize to the members and their families for the distress this has caused, and thank them for their patience,” said Capt. Nicolas Plourde-Fleury, spokesman for Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC). “We want them to know we have implemented measures to better support them moving forward.”
Approximately 100 Canadian military personnel are currently serving in Poland as part of a contingent to train Ukraine troops.
“In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.”
-Rudyard Kipling
Deploy troops with no provisions for chow. That’s a show of force.
Castreau messing with the military again?
Kipling was only partly right.
During Vietnam, we were treated like @#$% by a large cross-section of the American public.
Turdeau and his evil whore Christia Freeland couldn’t care less.
Had enough of this WEF BS war yet people?
[Of curse, Kipling died in 1936, and he could never have imagined what would happen, though he did have a great imagination.]
They don’t deploy with a logistics train????
It sounds as though Canadian Forces’ financial department is incompetent.
Well the good news is, in Poland you can eat really well cheaply.
I suspect the things they think are “important” get paid promptly.
Is this like USAF deployments where you stay in a hotel and eat at restaurants? Us Navy guys rarely have to worry about such things as being reimbursed on deployment. We sleep in a rack and eat in the mess. Yeah, I know, better than the Marines and GI’s but not nearly as nice as the AF “per-diem deployments”.
Justin, as always, you are a real f*** up!
What’s that old saying? Oh yeah this:
“An army marches on their stomach.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
Guess Canadian’s aren’t French enough to remember?
My sincere gratitude for your service. Especially in a thankless situation like Vietnam.
When we flew commercially, in uniform, it sure as hell seemed to us as a large — and loud — cross section (that’s why the first thing we did when we landed was go to the nearest restroom and change out of our uniforms and into civvies; though in several instances we were still identified as military: The haircuts; the bearing). Also, a lot of our former classmates — with whom we were friends while in school — suddenly wanted nothing to do with us. Well, as we said of those former classmates back then, “@#$% ‘em.”
I served from 1970-1974. We were not very popular.
I thought then, and I still think now, that it was an honor to serve my country.
The poutine is probably lacking.
They only got a small fraction of that money. Biden used it for his other projects Manchin wouldn’t vote for.
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