[ridenrain]

Huge numbers are found and removed to each casualty, but every casualty is huge news here in Canada. The media are not interested in touting our victories.

From The Torch:

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But here’s what we as Canadians don’t already know: that the Taliban victories plastered all over our media, and imprinted upon the national consciousness in 2008 represented less than 4% of the total IED incidents in Kandahar province during that time. And that percentage has nearly halved from the year before, when it was 7%.

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From the graphic above, it’s obvious why we’ve been taking increased IED casualties - it’s the sheer number of IED attempts, not our inability to counter them. I asked the Captain about this increase in IED attempts, and here’s what he said:


The reason the insurgents are turning to this strategy is that it’s the only one available to them.

http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.c ... ntage.html

[bootlegga]

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Scape Scape:

The CAR future was already in doubt long before this happened. It was not producing bang for buck as compared to the mainstay regiments. For the amount of equipment, training and personnel required to keep the CAR in fighting form they could have an entire regiment in its stead. So even without the history of discipline problems the CAR was already on thin ice. This just made that transition faster if not more dramatic and perhaps even more politically feasible but the fact was they were destined to be decommissioned just like the US decommissioned the South Dakota, a ship that did it's job with honor but was too expensive to keep afloat.

So by disbanding a Regiment full of "bad apples" (boots insinuaton) the problem was solved. Anybody realize that when the troops moved on they scattered back to their parent regiments, thus scattering the "problem throughout the CF Infantry Corps? Great planning

I think one effect of splitting them up and simply making them regular troops was isolate them and make them less likely to want to wave Nazi flags and piss on each other, especially given the fact that they no longer train exclusively with US/UK/French special forces (which in most of the cases were a bad influence on them). Taking away their special status probably did more to eliminate those bad apples than anything else.

As well, according to the CF brass, all the bad apples were discharged and/or imprisoned. Whether or not that was actually the case is anybody's guess. My guess is that they succeeded far better than the government expected them to.

Given that we haven't had any CF hazing videos surface in more than a decade, and there haven't been any incidents similar to Somalia in the eight years we've been in Afghanistan, I'd say the brass did a good job of stamping out the bad apples.

The CAR, like it or not, is dead, and the CSOR is its modern replacement.

[PENATRATOR]

CSOR, vastly mis-used.

Trust me, there are many remnants of the Airborne regiment still serving both excellent, and very bad, they were not all "stomped out" or punted.

[bootlegga]

Well, I was giving the CF the benefit of the doubt. I guess the skinheads and rambos are just better at hiding their BS now than they were when the CAR was still in existence.

[2Cdo]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Well, I was giving the CF the benefit of the doubt. I guess the skinheads and rambos are just better at hiding their BS now than they were when the CAR was still in existence.

The vast majority of those "bad apples" from the Airbornes day are in fact no longer part of the CF. But that being said, there are still racist assholes in the CF just like every other profession in Canada.