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[Graywolf]

Originally Posted by XL Ed

Officially Canada was never there...

Officially, it wasn't a war. It was a police action.

People who sold arms, airplanes, and supplies, still made money from it.

[sportsterpaul]

That was it’s sole purpose, make some rich people much richer at the cost of many a good life, may they Rest In Peace.
This is the way the world operates, arrogance and greed.........rant over carry on.

[Graywolf]

[maltesefalcon]

[QUOTE=XL Ed;6014355]

Originally Posted by Graywolf

Officially Canada was never there...

My father was in the RCAF at the time and I wondered as a lad why we sat this one out.
It wasn't until much later that I realized why. Canada's armed forces by the mid-1960s were simply not set up to provide meaningful assistance.
Our front line CF-104s were the only air component we had. At the time they were set up for nuclear strike missions vs Soviets. In any case, they were not the best choice for ground pounding. That didn't stop Canada from switching roles later on.
Post Korea, we had a very small regular army and dwindling armoured component. In fact, Canada would be hard-pressed to provide anything better than a brigade strength land component which was already committed to NATO.
Our Navy was not much use either. Only one carrier and it was really only useful for antisubmarine and maritime patrol. Our destroyer force could challenge North Vietnam's meagre Navy, but there were few opportunities to do so.
We were in Europe 67-71 and I remember seeing plenty of Phantoms refueling on base. Plus plenty of GIs coming on base to shop in the PX.
Many of them were young draftees only a year or two older than me.
I always wondered if some of these soldiers and aircrew that I saw ended up in country and never made it home.

[Tim The Grim]

I took this last night a few minutes after having my body dematerialized on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” ride. Yikes !

[Graywolf]

Originally Posted by maltesefalcon

My father was in the RCAF at the time and I wondered as a lad why we sat this one out.
It wasn't until much later that I realized why. Canada's armed forces by the mid-1960s were simply not set up to provide meaningful assistance.
Our front line CF-104s were the only air component we had. At the time they were set up for nuclear strike missions vs Soviets. In any case, they were not the best choice for ground pounding. That didn't stop Canada from switching roles later on.
Post Korea, we had a very small regular army and dwindling armoured component. In fact, Canada would be hard-pressed to provide anything better than a brigade strength land component which was already committed to NATO.
Our Navy was not much use either. Only one carrier and it was really only useful for antisubmarine and maritime patrol. Our destroyer force could challenge North Vietnam's meagre Navy, but there were few opportunities to do so.
We were in Europe 67-71 and I remember seeing plenty of Phantoms refueling on base. Plus plenty of GIs coming on base to shop in the PX.
Many of them were young draftees only a year or two older than me.
I always wondered if some of these soldiers and aircrew that I saw ended up in country and never made it home.

Not that it matters, but I did not post that Canada was officially not there .

XL Ed posted that and somehow got the quotes messed up.

Look back at post 60570. All the quotes since then are still messed up.