Who says Canadians can't fight?
Who says Canadians can't fight?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Right on bro.
I have seen shots made by Newfoundlanders just like that on Moose
You see, Canada still has desolate wilderness frontiers, and the old shooting skills are passed down from father to son.
I once had the privilege of witnessing a WW I Newfoundlander in his 80's win a long range shootin contest over scoped rifles, with a Lee Enfield Mark I Rifle in .303 caliber , on a 1000 yard range in Norris Arm, Newfoundland. The wind was blowing and bucking like hell. This old timer was deadly. No one else could shoot acurately in that wind, even with scopes.
I have seen Newfoundlanders hunt adult seals from a rolling boat in a long swell. They would shoot the seal through the eye at 200 to 300 yards , so as not to ruin the value of the pelt. And the guns were rested on the gunwale. Newfoundlanders are excellent riflemen, especially the seal on Moose hunters. I have seen them target practise on Loons on a lake at 1000 yards, just for the hell of it. They would try to just come close, and of course the splash of the bullet was immediate feedback on the placement of the round. (Its so uninhabited in most places that any bouncing water shots were no danger.) After seeing this and doing it myself, I know that shooting long range at water targets is the fastest way of learning sniper shooting skills.
The other thing you should know is that the Canadian Government would not allow Newfoundlanders to serve with the infantry combat soldiers in WW II because so many died in WW I , they were TOO fearless. A Newfoundlander who wanted combat infantry in WW II had to change his residence to another province, and them volunteer there.
It is from these taditions that Brigadeer General Hillier comes, the Commanding Officer of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Many Canadian soldiers have the necessary basic shooting skills even before the go into the military. I expect the Taliban will feel the Canadian sting very badly, and after what was done to Trevor Greene, the Princess Patricia Rifles will go out into the barrens after them. The Canadians will be right at home in those isolated mountains.
Any sizeable Taliban group will be denied the former safe harbor those Mountains had come to represent.
I'd say that Harper made his feelings known to the MoD. Whether we who Freeped Harper had any efect in this policy , to turn the Patricia Pats loose on the Taliban, is now a moot point.
General Fraser has taken the bull by the horns, and our Scottish Canadian Regiment will run the Taliban to ground and death, or make them scoot right on back to Quetta , Pakistan, with their farting, sodomic asses on fire.