The American flags are flying at half mast today as well as the British, ours are fully raised though, so I guess that’s a good thing in a sea of bad news.
Our day-bags are packed and ready in case we have to leave right away… we are ready to enter the scrap.
Traning’s over.
A Canadian soldier blogs from Afghanistan.
(Via Matt’s Thoughts
Also – don’t forget to check in at Cjunk, where the coverage of operations in Afghanistan has been outstanding.
Know Your Enemy.
“They acted the way that we expected they would act and became decisively engaged and had insurmountable difficulties breaking contact with us.”
72 Taliban killed in Canadian-set military trap
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Less than three hours after taking command of Canada’s battle group in southern Afghanistan, Lieutenant-Colonel Omer Lavoie sprang what amounted to a carefully laid trap on Taliban insurgents that left as many as 72 militants dead with Canadian troops suffering no casualties and Afghan forces only a handful. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687233/posts
Lobster and crab legs on the front lines??? War is hell if the Oysters Rockafeller don’t show up!
Just kidding, although I’m sure the gang over there wouldn’t mind one less lobster meal a month if it meant they could get decent transportation. To send out your troops in glorified SUVs instead of getting them the equipment they NEED is a travesty and doesn’t speak well of those REMFs who are sending them that crap.
Good to read a blog like Matts and not some pith poor report by a journalist looking to make a name for themselves.
Canada has always had a great military and our boys and girls have the right attitude and demeanor to represent us well.
I am happy our Prime Minister is giving them the tools they need to do the job, just could be a little faster
God bless Matt and the rest of our military.
Neale and the Star reported his blog was ordered deleted. It’s still in the Google cache though, check it out quickly.
We should get our soldiers out of Afghanistan. We recall parliament to have a vote on the issue. If the Gov’t loses their should be an election. We should not support a fool like Bush. He’s stupid that’s for sure. What university gave this guy a degree???