Quebecers don't honour veterans enough: minister

ripperjack wrote:Posted 2010/06/14
at 6:23 PM ET

I recall that the night of the referendum the R22er (van doos) tore the Canadian flags off their uniforms in anticipation of seperation. Most units such as the PPCLI or the RCR hate when they have to go in and relieve them as most of the time they have left the whole operation in a mess and all the progress that was made by the previous units has to all be redone.

The final straw that broke the camels back for the Airborne Regiment was the hazing vidio...it was blamed on 2 Commando (PPCLI) but was actually 1 Commando (Van Doo).

The commander of the Airborne Regiment in Somalia was a Van Doo.

Menard, the General that was just sent back from Afghanistan...you guessed it, a Van Doo. Baril, who was probably the worst Chief of Defence we ever had...yup...him too.

The recent negligent discharge of the tank round at CFB Gagetown that injured 12 soldierswas in a tank from the RBC (Quebecs best tank regiment)

The Combat Engineer regiment from Quebec was so ill prepared that when they had their recent readiness evaluation it was recomended that they not be deployed to Afghanistan ( the people doing the assesment were overruled)

The media constantly refers to them as "legendary" or "world famous"...when in fact most soldiers consider them to be essentially a bunch of clowns.

Now most of this is trueish. We often thought of the vandoos as a bunch of clowns indeed. I never took over on tour from a french Battle Group (2 of my tours being the first in), but have heard stories of it.
It's no wonder the Quebecers have no time for the Military; their background back to France is mostly stories of French Army Defeats. No one celebrates more defeats more than the French Military. They got kicked around in North America, got kicked in the groin in Mexico, lost the Franco-Prussian war, got pushed back by the Germans in 1914,got pushed back by the Germans even quicker in 1940, and got their ass kicked in Dien Bein Phu in Vietnam. This is what the Quebecers have to go on.