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A Canadian Story Wounded Vets — by M WWII’s Veterans react Interview with Great Escape to Budget 2014 VAdm Norman e espritdecorps CANADIAN MILITARY VOLUME 21 ISSUE 2 $3.95 HIGH-TECH WARRIORS: THE INTEGRATED SOLDIER SYSTEM March 2014 Issue $3.95 Cdn / $4.50 US Display until 7 April 2014 AFGHAN MOBILE BATTLE OF OGDENSBURG, STRIKE FORCE 1813 Publications Mail # 40069149 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Circulation Dept. 204-1066 Somerset St. W. Ottawa ON K1Y 4T3 march 2014 espritdecorps 1 espritdecorps.ca CPAC NEW AD COMING 2 Volume 21 Issue 2 COMMENT Scott Taylor publisher 4ON TARGET Experiencing first hand Volume 21 Issue 2 Publisher Manager green-on-blue tension Scott Taylor Julie Simoneau in Kabul Senior Writer Circulation David Pugliese Kim Davis ON FEBRUARY 12, there was yet another purchased for the Afghans by the U.S. Columnist of what is now known as green-on-blue The Commando is a very capable vehicle, Michael Nickerson attacks in Afghanistan. and very similar to the new fleet of tactical Contributing Editors Two uniformed members of the Afghan armoured patrol vehicles Canada recently Les Peate, Norman Shannon security force suddenly turned their weap- purchased from Textron Systems. Journalism Interns ons on U.S. coalition forces and opened The Commandos offer goodespri protection tdeMegancorps Brush, Laurel Sallie fire, killing two American soldiers. Both and boast some pretty serious firepower Special Events CANADIAN MILITThérèseAR Darêche,Y MAGAZINE Michèle Simoneau, Afghan attackers were then killed. in the form of a 40-mm automatic grenade Wendy van Beilen, Emily Walsh This was the first incident of Afghans launcher and a .50-calibre machine gun. turning on their NATO mentors in 2014, The day we visited the range, the Contributors in this issue but this tactic is certainly not new. To Afghan crews were being put through their Ted Barris, Joe Bissett, Michael Blais, The one that’sRobert Anthony read! Carswell, Michel Drapeau, date, Afghans wearing security force paces by NATO instructors as they en- Bob Gordon, Sean Howard, Michael Hurley, uniforms have killed 82 NATO soldiers, gaged static targets with both the grenade Joshua Juneau, Jerry Kovacs and wounded dozens more. launchers and .50-calibre machine guns. Regular Contributors A January 2012 incident of green-on- In addition to having one instructor Paul Culliton, Col. Michel Drapeau, Bob Gordon, Michael Hurley, Joshua Juneau, Chuck Konkel, blue violence that led to the deaths of perched atop each vehicle’s turret to Mark M. Miller, Rick Leswick, Steven Staples four French soldiers served to hasten the supervise the firing, there were about Esprit de Corps departure of French combat troops from two-dozen NATO officers milling about #204-1066 Somerset St. W., Ottawa, ON K1Y 4T3 Afghanistan. behind the line of Commando vehicles. Tel: 613-725-5060 • Fax: 613-725-1019 Since the outbreak of these attacks, My team was allowed to roam about www.espritdecorps.ca NATO instructors and mentors have been and film at will, but wherever we moved increasingly wary of their recruits and have we were always accompanied by a NATO Toll-free: 1-800-361-2791 taken additional precautions to protect “Guardian Angel.” Fully locked and E-mail: [email protected] themselves. loaded, these soldiers kept a very attentive Subscriptions On my most recent visit to Afghanistan watch on the assembled ranks of Afghan $34.95 for 12 issues • $95.95 for 36 issues in December, I witnessed first hand the soldiers awaiting their turn in the turrets. Esprit de Corps (ISSN 1194-2266) is published tension that exists between NATO person- Pugliese was the first to notice a pair of twelve times a year (HST (no. 135453157) included). nel and their Afghan charges. French soldiers brandishing rifle grenades Please send cheque, money order, Visa or Master- Card information with your subscription request. My team, which included Ottawa on the end of their assault rifles. Asking If you are moving or need to correct your mailing Citizen defence reporter David Pugliese them about the purpose of their armoured address, call us toll-free from anywhere in Canada. and Australian cameraman Sasha Uzunov, piercing ordnance, one French soldier was granted access to a live-fire training nodded his head in the direction of the exercise by the Afghan Army’s elite mobile armoured vehicles and replied curtly, “If strike force. These new units are to form anyone starts to turn their turret (toward the primary counter to Taliban threats and, us) … they’re dead.” as such, have received the best equipment Even inside Kabul’s Green Zone, a and most advanced training. veritable NATO fortress of concrete, The source of their mobility is a fleet vehicle barriers and guard towers in the An Army Patrol Pathfinder uses his kit bag to of Textron-built Commando armoured keep his C6 rifle above the salt water. (MCPL COLIN patrol vehicles, which were generously PUBLISHER ... CONTINUED ON P. 55 KELLEY, FORMATION IMAGING SERVICES, CFB HALIFAX) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40069149 Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: #204-1066 Somerset St. W., Ottawa, ON K1Y 4T3 espritdecorps.ca Tel: (613) 725-5060 march 2014 espritdecorps 3 V O L U M E 2 1 I S S U E 2 CONTENTS FAVOURITES p6 p42 p52 p54 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN THE NEWS THE OLD GUARD TRIVIA F E A T U R E S GAME CHANGER FOR THE ANA The Afghan National Army’s Mobile Strike Force – by David Pugliese – 8 32 HIGH-TECH 14 THE BATTLE OF WARRIORS OGDENSBURG The CAF’s Integrated A disturbance of peace, Soldier System Project February 22, 1813 – by David Pugliese – – by Michael Hurley – STORIES 18 COMMENTARY: 38 BETWEEN THE COVERS: Budget ignores plight of Canada’s The Great Escape: A Canadian Story wounded vets — by M. Blais; Who — by Ted Barris won? — by S. Howard; 2014 budget 44 PERSPECTIVES: fails veterans — by J. Kovacs; A cry for Scotch on the Somme: Discovering help — by Michael Nickerson dad’s wartime tall tales were true — by 22 INTERVIEW: Joe Bissett VAdm Mark Norman: The view from 46 HISTORICA CANADA: the crow’s nest — by Megan Brush In Memoriam: WRCNS’s Dorothy Butler 28 LAW AND ORDER: 48 WORLD WAR II: The CAF Grievance System — by Sable Island: 350 shipwrecks, 500 horses Michel Drapeau & Josh Juneau & a B-24 Liberator — by R.A. Carswell 30 PERSPECTIVES: 50 WORLD WAR I: A New Career for the Entrepreneur: Trench Raiding: The disastrous raid of Prince’s Charities — by Laurel Sallie March 1, 1917, Part IV — by Bob Gordon 4 Volume 21 Issue 2 FAVOURITES DEW ENGINEERING NEW AD COMING march 2014 espritdecorps 5 FEEDBACK 4POSTED IN Letters to the editor WAS IT WORTH IT? would be leaving Kabul and that I wouldn’t see them again. I was soon rotated to monitoring duties in the Pathan tribal areas on the Pakistan/ Afghanistan border. My only base was a house in Islamabad, which I rarely saw ex- cept for a few days between rotations to the frontier. This house was shared with the two other Canadians on the mission as well as a Canadian on the Afghan refugee de-mining training team. Imagine my surprise when, unannounced, one of the young men from my English language walks in Kabul ap- peared on my Islamabad doorstep on one of the rare occasions that I was actually there. I immediately offered him hospitality, tea, In the late 1980s, Canadian peacekeeping veteran Roy Thomas (pictured above, far left) coffee, sweets or a meal. This he politely served as a United Nations military observer (UNMO) in Afghanistan and Pakistan following refused, but instead asked if I would give the Soviet withdrawal. The Ghanian UNMO (second from right) who served with Thomas him a few English books. Having travelled at Shaghala in 1989 was the first black person the Pathans in that area had ever seen. lightly, I took him to a bookstore in a nearby Thomas was the first white person they had seen in five years.ROY ( THOMAS) bazaar. One hundred dollars later, my young AS THE LAST Canadian troops leave Af- Nations military observer (UNMO) sent in Afghan acquaintance left with a kitbag of ghanistan, a range of Canadians have ques- the second Canadian rotation to achieve English books slung over his shoulder. This tioned the value of our military participation the goals of the United Nations Good Of- was the last time that I saw him. since 2000. I asked myself similar questions fice Mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan In hindsight, thinking of this encounter, no about an Afghanistan mission that I served (UNGOMAP) after the Soviet troops had matter what analysts say about Canada’s with 25 years ago. Readers can decide for withdrawn. participation in UNGOMAP, it seems to me it themselves whether it was worthwhile based The young Afghan males were quick to was worth it. I think the other six Canadians on this Afghan anecdote. tell me that we couldn’t be seen together but who served on this mission have similar stor- The voice from the door spoke remark- that they would follow behind me engaging ies and share similar sentiments. In the case ably good English. My Canada flash and in conversation to practice their English. of our most recent rotations through Afghan- my activity of rummaging through English We had several such conversations. When istan, thousands of Canadians interacted language books identified me as English they suggested that we could meet together with thousands of Afghans. Contact with speaking at least to these teenaged Afghan in the house that I shared with an Irish these Canadians had an impact on all the males. and a Ghanaian UNMO, I knew that such Afghans they met.
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