British man allegedly beaten by Canadian soldiers
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As long as they didn't throw a puppy or record the beating it this thread should die fairly quick.
I mean they only tried to pick up his wife while her husband was present, put their arm around her, spit at her feet and smashed a bottle over the husband's head. Just as long as no puppies were involved then this is just a couple of bad apples. But Puppy Tossing indicts the whole US Military.
Why? It' what they were sent there for... to decompress. Sounds like they did just that, blew off steam.
I know the victim says he doesn't hold this incident against the military, but I sure as hell do.
You'd think an organization like that would, by now, be more than familiar with what happens when groups of stressed out workers 'decompress' in a place that affords them a sense of anonimity (ie, they don't know the population personally and vice versa). Surely oilpatch boom towns aren't the only ones that see high incidences of drunken brawling, rape, vandalism, and other crime when shifts change and exhausted workers roll into town to drink.
You'd think an organization like that would, by now, be more than familiar with what happens when groups of stressed out workers 'decompress' in a place that affords them a sense of anonimity (ie, they don't know the population personally and vice versa). Surely oilpatch boom towns aren't the only ones that see high incidences of drunken brawling, rape, vandalism, and other crime when shifts change and exhausted workers roll into town to drink.
It occurs to me that we have enough new members floating about, that I'd better point out that on our particular forum, purple text is used to denote sarcasm. Please don't think we all actually think these things. Well, eh1eh might, he's a bit of a jerk, but, other than that, we're being sarcastic.
Hmm.... Stressed-out soldiers, Brit wit, a little booze and a pair of ... uh ... people out on a walk.... There may be more hidden in the story than the story leads us to believe. Why are they doing R&R where there are known to be problems?
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It could be that they were drunk and a couple of jerks. It happens. Some guys are just plain azzes.
The whole Canadian military is under a greater stress than it has been for decades, with a questionable mission that includes the possible abuse of human rights, multiple combat deaths and injuries and no end in sight. Is it any wonder that this sort of release of pressure takes place. The soldiers involved are going to have to face the fire for this event, but the real blame lies with the federal government that is asking them to do to much with too little.
True and when these things happen one shouldn't. Unfortunatly, when you see a large pile of these situations and actions which I would call "unbecoming of a soldier" from one country's military, one seriously has to look at the military as a whole and what procedures and training is involved in the forces to prevent these type of actions, or at the very least, these kinds of people from getting in.
That it a total crock of BS. Inserting your political agenda into a "crime" is ludicrous.