May 25, 2012 By bowadmin (A film has a story and behind the story is voice and vision of the Director. This is the first of a new regular feature providing discussions with Director/ Producer Sco...
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Scott Kesterson, the first combat photographer to embed with Canadian troops engaged in combat in Afghanistan, speaks here about the stress Soldiers face following multiple employments. http://b...
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The following is courtesy of Wired Magazine: DANGER ROOM. By David Axe: Wired News The Caribou airlifter flies so low through the mountains and valleys of eastern Afghanistan that it’s invisi...
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The following post comes via Troy who blogs at Bards of War: I am very glad to see a story like this come out. For too long the heroic actions of Canada’s military has been ignored, overlooked...
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THERE IS NOTHING IN THE FIELD MANUAL ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT AFGHANISTAN. Your job is to build an Army to fight an enemy who attacks from the shadows and rarely shows his face. Your life is defin...
In their documentary VIETNAM IN HD they try to capitalize on their success of their excellent series WORLD WAR II IN HD COLOR. It's a natural follow up to a proven formula, and I applaud them for...
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I've been absent from this blog for just over a year now. Sometime, I might go into the reason for my absence. But not now. I have something on my mind that has galvanized me into returning. It h...
OTTAWA — A Canadian who served with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan is to receive an American bravery medal. Grant Derrick, a duel Canadian-American citizen, will receive the Silver Star on...
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BILL TWATIO, NATIONAL POST · THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 2010 As Christmas 1943 approached, Canadians read in the newspapers of a fierce battle being fought by their troops in Italy for "a key Adriatic ...
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Cpl. Steve Martin is shown in a Canadian military handout photo. Cpl. Martin, 24, from 3rd Battalion Royal 22e Regiment, was killed by an improvised explosive device, or IED, while on foot patr...
By PETER WORHTINGTON,Toronto Sun Last Updated: August 17, 2010 7:22pm They appointed him as the first veterans’ ombudsman on Remembrance Day 2007, and they’re firing him on Remembrance Day ...
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Villagers in a key rural district near Kandahar City are "fed up with conflict" and with what they perceive is a standoff between Canadian forces and the Taliba...
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A CANADIAN SOLDIER, SAPPER BRIAN COLLIER, WAS KILLED BY A BOMB IN AFGHANISTAN TODAY. Collier was killed while on a foot patrol in the village of Nakhonay, in the eastern part of Panjwaii Distr...
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LORNE GUNTER July 9, 2010 – 7:49 am Canada doesn’t send monsters into combat. Our soldiers are not bloodthirsty killers eager to “off” as many enemy as possible. They are as intellige...
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The bodies of Canada's latest fallen soldiers in Afghanistan are expected to return home Tuesday afternoon. Master Cpl. Kristal Giesebrecht, 34, and Pte. Andrew Miller, 21, were killed Saturda...
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Sgt. James Macneil of Glace Bay, N.S., was killed Monday, July 21, 2010 while on a foot patrol in Nakhoney, 20 kilometres southwest of Kandahar. Macneil was a combat engineer with 2 Combat Eng...
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – Sgt. Martin Goudreault was looking for a stockpile of insurgent weapons shortly after dawn yesterday when a makeshift bomb detonated, killing him. On his third tour o...
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Trooper Larry Rudd is the latest Canadian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan. Rudd, 26, died yesterday while on a resupply patrol to deliver supplies and equipment to Canadian soldiers near t...
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CFB TRENTON, Ont. - As the C17 Globemaster military aircraft carrying the body of Col. Geoff Parker drew closer on the tarmac, tears flowed down the cheeks of some of the hundreds of onlookers...
A CANADIAN SOLDIER WHO WAS TWO DAYS AWAY FROM FINISHING HIS TOUR in Afghanistan has been killed by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol southwest of Kandahar city. Pte. Kevin Mc...
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Yesterday marked another painful day for Canadians as the body of Petty Officer 2nd Class Craig Blake returned home to Canada. The 37-year-old father of two is the 143rd member of the Canadian F...
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Petty Officer Second Class Douglas Craig Blake, 37, was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated. He was on foot around 4:30 p.m. Monday May, 3, 2010 near the Sperwan Ghar base in P...
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN -- One Canadian soldier was killed and another injured when a blast from an improvised explosive device hit their foot patrol this morning southwest of Kandahar C...
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Ethan Baron, Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, April 03, 2010 KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - After an emotional Easter-weekend ceremony to honour nine Canadian soldiers who have fal...
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This is the first incident I've heard of German troops actually shooting back at the insurgents. Previously the caveats in their ROE required them to get higher command approval to even LOAD thei...
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