[Newsbot]

Title: Patriotic youths flock to military
Category: Military
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2008-11-10 08:48:26
Canadian

[uwish]

Bravo-Zulu!

[Pseudonym]

Interesting how its the patriotic ones, isn't it?

[BartSimpson]

The growing numbers of Canadians who have served in the military will mean you'll have a larger supply of leaders in the coming years for government and industry. This is a good thing.

[xerxes]

Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?

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The last five Presidential elections had the following results:

2008 - Obama

2004 - G.W. Bush - National Guard vet

2000 - G.W. Bush - National Guard vet

1996 - Clinton - draft dodger

1992 - Clinton - draft dodger

Bush would count as having military experience since he was active duty ANG.

[PENATRATOR]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

xerxes xerxes:

Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?

?


1996 - Clinton - draft dodger

1992 - Clinton - draft dodger

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LOL

[xerxes]

Good point. But let's look at 2004. Kerry had arguably much more military experience than Bush. Same with Al Gore. He served in Vietnam as well.

[roger-roger]

In the engineers they are saying they want a trained recruit to be a sergeant in 7 years.

[SprCForr]

It's not unheard of. They were doing that 20 years ago too.

[Canadian_Mind]

Same with the armoured corps.

I chose the right time to join.


And the young people believe in what this country and the military stand for, aprtially because of A-stan. In my highschool grad class of 120 students, 5 have either joined, or are already in the reserves, and I know of a 6th who is trying to join currently.

5% of the pop. isn't bad. accounting for Canada's pop. we woul have 1.5 million troops if we held that same ratio.

Military just needs to be promoted more in area's where there isn't a military base, particularily Big cities like Vancouver, Toronto, etc.

[Tricks]

I gots to wait another 2-3 years. Boourns.

[Canadian_Mind]

why?

[SprCForr]

Tricks is still in uni.

[Tricks]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

why?

School.