And I thought yesterday's instalment was the worst there could be. You topped it today Mark! I'm wondering if Mark is away on vacation and Don Cherry is providing this content.
I can't find anything in their findings/research pointing to the shame the soldiers feel because they don't have any bad people to kill at the moment as reason for leaving the CAF. I'm guessing Mark left because he got a good package as part of the final downsizing of the forces due to there being a shortage of bad people to kill.
The good news is that PM Justin Tru-duh has read Mark's pieces on the military and has appointed him to lead the CAF.
Mark: Hello Mr Tru-duh. Mark here, reporting for duty.
Tru-duh: Promise me you'll lead by example and find people to kill and none of this stuff that's been going on here.
Mark: Yes Sir. Permission to speak freely?
Tru-duh: I guess.
Mark: I want to remove ourselves from NATO and go lone wolf. We'll decided who in the world are bad people and regardless of what NATO has decided, we will kill and rid the planet of everyone you and I think are bad. This will help us deal with the morale and retention problem.
Tru-duh: Sure, whatever. I have to go apologise to some groups now, are we done?
Mark: Well Sir, to be able to kill, we need weapons, ones that we can use to attack. We don't have any right now. Today we spend about $23 billion on defense each year. Despite that we can't kill any bad people. Russia spends $150 billion and the US spends $770 billion. Could you get the bean counters to cut me a cheque for say $75 more billion. I think we could kill some bad people with that kind of money.
Tru-doh: That's more than I carve off for my Mom. You need that much? Who are we going to kill anyway?
Mark: We can start at home to get some practice. I heard you calling some people here Nazis - maybe them? After that, I've got a short-list of countries that spend less than $50million on military. I'm sure they're doing something bad in those countries, we could just start a war with one of them.
Tru-doh: Hey, what do you think of these socks? Cool, eh? And how about my suit, can you help me in this one - I like them real tight.
Mark: You know Justin, I'm glad you're our leader now. If you were the big guy in 2014, you'd probably kept us in Afghanistan. Harper was such a sissy and he didn't have a clue how much we needed to have a war where we got to kill people. There wouldn't be a retention problem today if we stayed. Everyone had a purpose back then.
Excellent article Mark, thanks for writing this.
And I thought yesterday's instalment was the worst there could be. You topped it today Mark! I'm wondering if Mark is away on vacation and Don Cherry is providing this content.
Here's a link to a report from 2020 that discusses the problem of retention in the Armed Forces. https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/handle/1993/34939/Huddleston_Amanda.pdf?sequence=1
I can't find anything in their findings/research pointing to the shame the soldiers feel because they don't have any bad people to kill at the moment as reason for leaving the CAF. I'm guessing Mark left because he got a good package as part of the final downsizing of the forces due to there being a shortage of bad people to kill.
The good news is that PM Justin Tru-duh has read Mark's pieces on the military and has appointed him to lead the CAF.
Mark: Hello Mr Tru-duh. Mark here, reporting for duty.
Tru-duh: Promise me you'll lead by example and find people to kill and none of this stuff that's been going on here.
Mark: Yes Sir. Permission to speak freely?
Tru-duh: I guess.
Mark: I want to remove ourselves from NATO and go lone wolf. We'll decided who in the world are bad people and regardless of what NATO has decided, we will kill and rid the planet of everyone you and I think are bad. This will help us deal with the morale and retention problem.
Tru-duh: Sure, whatever. I have to go apologise to some groups now, are we done?
Mark: Well Sir, to be able to kill, we need weapons, ones that we can use to attack. We don't have any right now. Today we spend about $23 billion on defense each year. Despite that we can't kill any bad people. Russia spends $150 billion and the US spends $770 billion. Could you get the bean counters to cut me a cheque for say $75 more billion. I think we could kill some bad people with that kind of money.
Tru-doh: That's more than I carve off for my Mom. You need that much? Who are we going to kill anyway?
Mark: We can start at home to get some practice. I heard you calling some people here Nazis - maybe them? After that, I've got a short-list of countries that spend less than $50million on military. I'm sure they're doing something bad in those countries, we could just start a war with one of them.
Tru-doh: Hey, what do you think of these socks? Cool, eh? And how about my suit, can you help me in this one - I like them real tight.
Mark: You know Justin, I'm glad you're our leader now. If you were the big guy in 2014, you'd probably kept us in Afghanistan. Harper was such a sissy and he didn't have a clue how much we needed to have a war where we got to kill people. There wouldn't be a retention problem today if we stayed. Everyone had a purpose back then.