“Our replacements coming from Canada have been slow coming in,” Gen. Hillier told reporters at Kandahar Airfield as he completed a visit with troops.
“We're going to accelerate that program and have them here in a week.”
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Military Fine Tuning Troop Replacement
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"to shorten the time from the current 21 to 30 days. We're going to accelerate that program and have them here in a week.”
Obviously Hillier feels volunteers will want to leave their trade and become a "pongo". I recall what "volunteer" in the forces was. You, you & you have just volunteered. It must be a comforting thought to be on standby and know you are to be ready to replace the next dead or injured and someone is on standyby for you..
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