Streaker Streaker:
Eisensapper Eisensapper:
So Canadian soldiers are all trigger happy? I would have loved to bring you along on one of our patrols. When we were attacked we could not call in artillery, because of the risk of collateral damage, most of the Taliban were able to get away that day.
Ahh... The ROEs...
I hear a lot of bitching from soldiers about the ROEs, which is very telling, don't you think?
I dont bitch about the ROEs we have now, they are pretty good. They will never be perfect but its alot better then when you are on a peacekeeping mission,
Example:
You can have a woman come running up to the gate of a camp crying in a foreign language it looks like she wants in.
A man in a uniform drives up in a car walks out with a gun in his hand pointed at the ground, he walks ups stands between you and the woman, without warning he shoots her in the head.
Without turning around he walks back to his car and drives off.
In the past ROE's in some UN engagements left Canadian soldier with nothing to stop this, besides yelling for the uniformed man to stop. This was a senrio I was given on my SQ training by a MCpl who was in Bosnia. I doubt this situation ever happened to him, but after reading the ROE's we were given it was very possible.