Re: The Tragedy of Canada's Military

On 2024-11-14 2:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

No this isn’t a Monte Python skit about the Ministry of Silly Walks. It's the
Canadian military on Remembrance Day after nine years of leftist
virtue-signaling and DEI hiring practices.
  https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1856525088209645568/pu/vid/avc1/720x870/TdRvChZXmRWAk4tv.mp4?tag=12
 Scruffy long hair, unkempt beards, slovenly appearance, can’t dress the lines,
no uniformity in dress or cover, out of step, many out of shape - basically a
gigantic, shambling pile of shit. If they can't even march together in sync
how could they ever coordinate on a battlefield? No unit cohesion whatsoever.
And speaking English is no longer a requirement to join the Canadian military,
so that just would just add to the battlefield confusion.
 Don’t be too hard on them, though. At least they have tampons in their
washrooms.
 Meanwhile, over in China...
  https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1856786600774279168/pu/vid/avc1/960x540/YRtAfV1zXys_co9J.mp4?tag=12
 

As promised, my friend who spent most of his adult life in the Canadian Armed Forces had this to say about your post when he finally replied today:
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Most of his observations are correct, although if I remember my military slang, a "cover" is head dress. Different branches of service and even different units wear different types of head dress on parade, for example tan berets are the CSOR unit while red berets are the Military Police. In this case, the Naval contingent was wearing the peaked caps, with one member wearing a Sikh turban in naval colours. I wasn't clear what units these actually were since I didn't get a glimpse of unit titles or cap badges. I am guessing these were actually Reserve units on parade, which isn't much of an excuse, really.
The weird, robot-like precision of the Chinese military on parade is due to the extreme measures they take during parade rehearsals. I recall seeing pictures of them being lined up using string, even the level of their chins were dictated by a piece of string.
http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0926/c90000-9618252-7.html
So while they were practicing this, what are Western soldiers doing? Hopefully more useful training like map reading or range time (although that isn't always a given either).
Hopefully, sanity and reality return to the Canadian Armed Forces, but "we" have relied on the US to prop us up for so long, it might be a hard habit to break
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Rhino