JM on the Canadian military
This post immediately followed a mention by Alpo that his 7-year-old son has become something of a history buff and, during a recent discussion with dad about WWII, blurted out: "Canada has an army?"
Joe follows:
There was a time...
Posted on June 7, 2005 at 02:04:50 PM by Joe Mama
But that was before I was even born. During my lifetime, we championed the role of "Peace Keeper" but over the last 20 years, have let that slip away too. Now were behind some second-world countries on the peace keeping front. Pathetic. The military has fallen in to total disarray to pay for the generous social programs we've got going. But we can afford to let it rot, as big brother to the South will never let anyone touch a hair on our pretty little heads, right? Pathetic.
Did you know that, today, our current army way, way up North (like Antarctica or whatever) consists of some volunteer aboriginal peoples who "keep an eye out for anything suspicious"? That's a quote from the documentary last night. I was stunned. They are all given the signature red caps (WTF?), the narrator informed me, with this real stoic tone. Classic. Hey, Nukanyuk, if you see some Nordic motherfucker planting a flag on our soil, light a ton of whale blubber on fire and we'll see the signal in Ottawa and get right out there, unless our choppers break. What. The. Fuck. The average Canadian military helicopter is so outdated it requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air.
Last thing – the family-in-law is in town (shudder). My FIL is entirely full of shit, pretty much all the time. During the TV show I mentioned above, he told Mrs. Mama (I ignore him as best I can – eye contact only encourages him) that some time ago (IIRC he said it was the 60's) there was an exercise where 20,000 US troops and 5,000 Canadian troops engaged in war games way, way up North. He went on to say that we had trounced the Americans! Because it was –40 degrees (this is literally what he said – I'm not making this up) the American troops refused to get out of their tents. Now, I'm no history buff, but I was mentally calling "BULLSHIT!" the whole time. I did everything in my power to chill. I don't even bother anymore. I just ignore him. I hate that fucker. I swear to god Mrs. Mama is adopted.
Joe follows:
There was a time...
Posted on June 7, 2005 at 02:04:50 PM by Joe Mama
But that was before I was even born. During my lifetime, we championed the role of "Peace Keeper" but over the last 20 years, have let that slip away too. Now were behind some second-world countries on the peace keeping front. Pathetic. The military has fallen in to total disarray to pay for the generous social programs we've got going. But we can afford to let it rot, as big brother to the South will never let anyone touch a hair on our pretty little heads, right? Pathetic.
Did you know that, today, our current army way, way up North (like Antarctica or whatever) consists of some volunteer aboriginal peoples who "keep an eye out for anything suspicious"? That's a quote from the documentary last night. I was stunned. They are all given the signature red caps (WTF?), the narrator informed me, with this real stoic tone. Classic. Hey, Nukanyuk, if you see some Nordic motherfucker planting a flag on our soil, light a ton of whale blubber on fire and we'll see the signal in Ottawa and get right out there, unless our choppers break. What. The. Fuck. The average Canadian military helicopter is so outdated it requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air.
Last thing – the family-in-law is in town (shudder). My FIL is entirely full of shit, pretty much all the time. During the TV show I mentioned above, he told Mrs. Mama (I ignore him as best I can – eye contact only encourages him) that some time ago (IIRC he said it was the 60's) there was an exercise where 20,000 US troops and 5,000 Canadian troops engaged in war games way, way up North. He went on to say that we had trounced the Americans! Because it was –40 degrees (this is literally what he said – I'm not making this up) the American troops refused to get out of their tents. Now, I'm no history buff, but I was mentally calling "BULLSHIT!" the whole time. I did everything in my power to chill. I don't even bother anymore. I just ignore him. I hate that fucker. I swear to god Mrs. Mama is adopted.
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