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Patriotic youths flock to military


Military | 206834 hits | Nov 10 8:48 am | Posted by: WDHIII
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Instead of shivering outside Calgary's cenotaph this Remembrance Day with a plastic poppy pinned to his coat, 19-year-old Benjamin Wallace will be lacing up combat boots. He starts basic training in Quebec today.

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  1. by avatar uwish
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:26 pm
    Bravo-Zulu!

  2. by avatar Pseudonym
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:56 pm
    Interesting how its the patriotic ones, isn't it? :P

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:06 pm
    The growing numbers of Canadians who have served in the military will mean you'll have a larger supply of leaders in the coming years for government and industry. This is a good thing. :rock:

  4. by avatar xerxes
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:13 pm
    Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?

  5. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:21 pm
    "xerxes" said
    Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?


    ?

    The last five Presidential elections had the following results:

    2008 - Obama

    2004 - G.W. Bush - National Guard vet

    2000 - G.W. Bush - National Guard vet

    1996 - Clinton - draft dodger

    1992 - Clinton - draft dodger

    Bush would count as having military experience since he was active duty ANG.

  6. by avatar PENATRATOR
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:24 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    Not to take anything away from the article, BUT, Bart have you heard the stat the in the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate with actual military experience has lost?


    ?


    1996 - Clinton - draft dodger

    1992 - Clinton - draft dodger

    .


    LOL

  7. by avatar xerxes
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:28 pm
    Good point. But let's look at 2004. Kerry had arguably much more military experience than Bush. Same with Al Gore. He served in Vietnam as well.

  8. by roger-roger
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:42 pm
    In the engineers they are saying they want a trained recruit to be a sergeant in 7 years.

  9. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:53 pm
    It's not unheard of. They were doing that 20 years ago too.

  10. by Canadian_Mind
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:16 pm
    Same with the armoured corps.

    I chose the right time to join. :)


    And the young people believe in what this country and the military stand for, aprtially because of A-stan. In my highschool grad class of 120 students, 5 have either joined, or are already in the reserves, and I know of a 6th who is trying to join currently.

    5% of the pop. isn't bad. accounting for Canada's pop. we woul have 1.5 million troops if we held that same ratio.

    Military just needs to be promoted more in area's where there isn't a military base, particularily Big cities like Vancouver, Toronto, etc.

  11. by avatar Tricks
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:52 pm
    I gots to wait another 2-3 years. Boourns.

  12. by Canadian_Mind
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:08 pm
    why?

  13. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:13 pm
    Tricks is still in uni.

  14. by avatar Tricks
    Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:18 pm
    "Canadian_Mind" said
    why?

    School.



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