From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:24:09 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>In a defined training area. Tell me Gene, when would you train for night
>fighting ? Midday while making everyone where dark glasses & setting up
>tape recorders playing owl hooting noises?
>
>So if one wanted to train realistically for night fighting in
>Afghanistan one might train at night using live ammunition in
>Afghanistan. Of course to prevent any confusion you'd mark the area as a
>training area.

About as daft a thing as I have ever heard. You have got troops being sent
into a war zone without training? They have never had live ammunition
training in their home countries? They never trained for night fighting?
What the hell were they doing before being sent overseas?

And what his this utter crap about Afghanistan's terrain being so unique
that only training there is useful? They don't have hills and mountains in
Canada? The obvious fact is that Canada sent troops to fight in a war for
which they had
no appropriate training, hence training had to be conducted on sight. It was dumb.

If Canada wants to play with the big guys, they had better be prepared and
they were not and still are not. It is a disgrace that their rush to get
troops into Afghanistan meant their training had to be done their. And let
me remind you, they took that hit from the US pilot not because they were
running around chasing Taliban or AQ people, but were conducting as
training exercise of all things. There is no excuse for that kind of
stupidity and no amount of phony excuses will make it any less stupid.

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