"We've made some excellent progress to date," Lt.-Col. Jamie Hammond, the unit's commanding officer, said during a lull in training in the southern interior of British Columbia.
"There's a lot of training that will go on beyond this course, but right now I'm very happy with the quality of the people we've got, both the supporters and the actual candidates on the course."
The regiment will have its official "stand-up" ceremony at CFB Petawawa on Aug. 13.
At this point, the regiment has about 270 members, including headquarters and supply staff, as well as a training cadre. It is expected to expand to 750 over the next three to five years.
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(FFN Editors note: These same "Vigilant Guardian" drills were being run on 9-11 in order to deplete the NORAD air defenses and set up fake hijackings. More coming soon on these drills in August...)<br />
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False Flag News got this from <a href="http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=58878&issue=08042006">http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=58878&issue=08042006</a><br />
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Daily News Friday, August 04, 2006<br />
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Media Invited to Embed with Canadian Army<br />
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Members of the broadcast and print media are being invited to embed with the Canadian Army, and to experience a "battle rhythm" of combat-related activities and exercises.<br />
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Some 2,500 soldiers from across Ontario will be involved in what's called a "practise Full-Spectrum Operation" during EXERCISE VIGILANT GUARDIAN '06, to be held in Petawawa, ON from Saturday, August 19 to Sunday, August 27.<br />
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The exercise is described as a chance for reporters and news crews to experience the embedding process and to get an inside look at life in a Forward Operating Base; living with, patrolling with, and reporting on Canadian soldiers in an operation-like setting.<br />
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Opportunities include: cordon-and-search operations, presence patrolling, raids and vehicle checkpoints. As well, there will be opportunities to cover artillery live-fire and armoured reconnaissance.<br />
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I took this excerpt from <a href="http://falseflagnews.com/wargames/red_alert_us-canadian_exercise_vigilant_guardian_aug_17-26">http://falseflagnews.com/wargames/red_alert_us-canadian_exercise_vigilant_guardian_aug_17-26</a><br />
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Makes me want to yell WTF!, over.<p>---<br><br />
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)
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27 in the military, 9 tours and one more almost complete..
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
boflaade was using sarcasm and disgust , unless I miss my guess
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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U.S. Colonel Admits 500 Tons of D.U. Were Used in Iraq<br />
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By Jay Shaft<br />
Coalition For Free Thought In Media<br />
5 May 2003<br />
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In three separate interviews a U.S. Special Operations Command Colonel admitted that the U.S. and Great Britain fired 500 tons of D.U. munitions into Iraq.<br />
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He has also informed me that the G.B.U.-28 BLU 113 Penetrator Bunker Buster 5000 pound bomb contains D.U. in the warhead. Until now, as far as I know, the materials used to make the warhead of the G.B.U-28 have remained shrouded in mystery.<br />
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He also admitted that privately the Pentagon has acknowledged the health hazards of D.U. for years.<br />
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SNIP<br />
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J.S.: What about the health risks that are associated with D.U.? Or do you deny there are any?<br />
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U.S.C.: You are determined to get me to make a statement about the health risks aren�t you?<br />
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J.S.: If you will, I want to see what the behind the scenes view of D.U. is in the Pentagon.<br />
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U.S.C.: Well����� (long pause, followed by heavy profanity)�. Okay, I�ll give you some dirt if that�s what you�re looking for. The Pentagon knows there are huge health risks associated with D.U. They know from years of monitoring our own test ranges and manufacturing facilities.<br />
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There were parts of Iraq designated as high contamination areas before we ever placed any troops on the ground. The areas around Basra, Jalibah, Talil, most of the southern desert, and various other hot spots were all identified as contaminated before the war. Some of the areas in the southern desert region along the Kuwaiti border are especially radioactive on scans and tests.<br />
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One of our test ranges in Saudi Arabia shows over 1000 times the normal background level for radiation. We have test ranges in the U.S. that are extremely contaminated, hell they have been since the 80�s and nothing is ever said publicly. Don�t ask don�t tell is not only applied to gays, it is applied to this matter very heavily.<br />
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I know at one time the theory was developed that any soldier exposed to D.U. shells should have to wear full MOP gear (the chemical protective suit). But they realized that just wouldn�t be practical and it was never openly discussed again.<br />
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J.S.: So the stories that they know D.U. is harmful are true?<br />
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U.S.C.: Yes, there is no doubt that most high level commanders who were around during the 80�s know about it.<br />
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J.S.: So how do you feel about the fact that you exposed your own men to D.U.?<br />
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U.S.C.: F�k you!! What do you know about my job? I did what I had to do to take out the targets I was given. If it was necessary to use D.U., than I put it in my target analysis reports. I didn�t actually fire the rounds myself; I work in a remote office.<br />
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<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0305/S00050.htm">http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0305/S00050.htm</a><br />
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US DU More Deadly Than Gas<br />
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When this war ends, George Bush will have caused the poisoning of hundreds of thousands more humans than he said Saddam Hussein poisoned.<br />
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By Frederick Sweet<br />
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Frederick Sweet is Professor of Reproductive Biology in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. You can email your comments to Fred@interventionmag.com <br />
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SNIP<br />
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Many scientists believe that uranium oxide dust inhaled or ingested by troops in the Gulf War is the cause, or a contributing cause, of the "Gulf-War Syndrome". Of the approximately 697,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Gulf during the war, more than 100,000 veterans are now chronically ill. Cancer rates in southern Iraq have increased dramatically. For example ovarian cancer in Iraqi women of the southern region has fully increased by 16-fold.<br />
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More recently, Bush's and the Pentagon's reassurances were vigorously challenged by nuclear physicists and physicians at a scientific meeting, the World DU/Uranium Weapons Conference held in Hamburg, Germany during October 2003. New data suggest that orders of magnitude more Americans and Iraqis may have been poisoned by uranium from depleted uranium (DU) weapons explosions than Kurds had been killed by Saddam's gas in 1988. Review in Hamburg of the long term medical effects from DU exposures during the 1990s in Kosovo, Sarajevo, southern Iraq and from American veterans of the Gulf War reveal a frightening reality.<br />
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Conference scientists criticized as decades obsolete the Pentagon models used for reassuring the public about the long-term effects of inhaling uranium oxide particles from DU weapons. Citing the Pentagon model, the official 2003 Conference Statement concluded: "The knowledge on which this model is based is faulty and outdated. This is like comparing sitting in front of a fire with eating a hot coal."<br />
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According to the Conference, the mobility of the ceramic uranium oxide particles from DU weapons explosions is due to their re-suspension in dry weather. Measuring isotope ratios of U-238 and Pa-234m/Th-234 in water and air measurements by UNEP in Kosovo, Bosnia and Montenegro has showed this. Uranium oxide particles are available for inhalation long after the war is over. Anyone in the general area of their prior use is at risk, several years after their use or contamination. This had been proven by urine measurements in Kosovo in 2001. All of the people sampled showed contamination from DU. This was also shown by urine tests of Gulf War veterans made 10 years after their exposure.<br />
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After the Gulf War, Iraqi and international epidemiological investigations enabled the environmental pollution due to using this kind of weapon to be associated with the appearance of new, very difficult to diagnose diseases (serious immunodeficiencies, for instance) and the spectacular increase in congenital malformations and cancer. This had been found both in the Iraqi population and also among several thousands of American and British veterans and in their children, a clinical condition now called Gulf War Syndrome. Similar symptoms to those of the Gulf War have been described for a thousand children living in Bosnia where American aviation similarly used DU bombs in 1996, the same as in the NATO intervention against Yugoslavia in 1999.<br />
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<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0406/S00330.htm">http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0406/S00330.htm</a><br />
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27 in the military, 9 tours and one more almost complete..
I was being sarcastic.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
Accepted and I appologize for not making it clear, my disdain. No one can convince me of "glory" associated to the means and ways of killing other human beings.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
For instance, the series of annual exercises preceding were called "Stalwart Guardian". While the SG series concentrated mainly on training for the typical offensive/defensive scenarios of the good old days, VG is intended to put the soldiers into scenarios that are simialar to the sort of activities occuring in Afghanistan.
These exercises, as those in the past, are primarily intended for Reservists and it goes to show that the mission in Afghanistan is putting great pressure on the Reserves for volunteers.