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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster
There are different levels of armored transport vehicles, even in the Humvee lineup. You yourself said 1 dead Finn. Now look up how many canadians were killed and you will see that they are poorly trained and their armored transport vehicles are weak
And there are different areas and levels of "hot spots". The Finns were not deployed in as dangerous areas as the americans, Brits, Aussies and canadians. The difference is the Americans, Brits, Aussies are better suited because of their advanced weapons and gear, the Canadians not so much.
Since February 2002, 158 Canadian soldiers have died in the war in Afghanistan or in support of the war. Of these, 123 were due to hostile circumstances, including 95 due to improvised explosive devices (IED) or landmines, 21 due to rocket-propelled grenade, small arms or mortar fire, 11 due to suicide bomb attacks, and one died falling from a high ground position on a cliff during a combat operation that involved firefight. An additional 22 soldiers have died in accidents or other non-combat circumstances; 7 due to "friendly fire", 6 in vehicle accidents, two in an accidental helicopter crash, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots, 1 suicide death and 2 unspecified non-combat-related deaths in country. Additionally, one unspecified non-combat-related death occurred at a support base in the Persian Gulf. Canada has suffered the third-highest absolute number of deaths of any nation among the foreign military participants, and one of the highest casualties per capita of coalition members since the beginning of the war.[62][63] More than 2000 soldiers were injured during the war between April 2002 to December 2011. 635 soldiers were injured in action while 1412 were injured in patrol or non-combat situation.[64]
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Are you seriously calling a whole country a rat-hole based on how many deaths they had in Afghanistan? That's certainly a great measure of how good a country is.
Australia has had just over 40, but they also have less than half the troops there that Canada has, and who knows what areas they are in compared to the Canadian troops. I'm sure your vast experience with military training is more than enough to determine how well Canadian troops are trained and outfitted. Hell, you blamed a media conspiracy when I told you American troops also had green camo in some cases.
You want to talk about rat holes? Take a look in the mirror. Clean up your own knee-deep shit first before worrying about Canada's military training, or lack thereof.
