Norwegian Garands in Action
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Jwirecom109
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Link works fine for me, thanks for posting cool to see
Wow, very cool! Reminds me of the days from the drill team when I was an air cadet. Some of our drill movements were very similar to theirs though we didn't have the band playing at the same time.
Does Canada have a similar military team for presentations like the Norwegians ? If so, I hope they are equipped with Ross rifles
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Does Canada have a similar military team for presentations like the Norwegians ? If so, I hope they are equipped with Ross rifles
.They would be better off to take all that spare time and manpower and work up an effective capability to deal with incidents like that nutbar who shot up all of those people earlier this year.
Nobody is imune from this anymore, not even a peaceful little socialist heaven like Norway.
Nobody is imune from this anymore, not even a peaceful little socialist heaven like Norway.
More than likely. I remember my air cadet boots having a hardened rubber sole and with a metal plate and you would kill your heel trying to make crisp "cracks" like those Norwegians.
A couple of my buddies would put some well placed thumb tacks on the bottom of their boots before special parades and it worked out quite nicely unless you got caught by an NCO
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RememberTheSomme
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Well said.
Even taking care of their own soverignty would be a plus. They've dropped the ball on this, right up through Cold War days of the 20th century, leaving a gap in their defense that would have to be filled by none other than those shameful, as mentioned here,.... Canadian Warfighters( They are called soldiers by the way, really..... WhoTF brought this metrosexual terminology into common use for a soldier?).
They were standing on guard for thee, being mobilized throughout WW1 and being a non- participant to places like The Somme, Passchendaele and the like. We were there, The Germans were there. Where were you?
In WW2 their main action was doing a complete surrender after just viewing the Swastika for several minutes. Just a put on in my mind to pretend not to be a Nazi sympathzing country offering all its natural resources to Herr Hitler.
"Yea but they were outnumbered you see". Well,.... so were the Poles, and they gave Herr Hitler a black eye while standing alone, of such a degree, the nazis never forgot this lesson, and even Herr Stalin insured the Polish officer corps were murdered by the thousands, to prevent any organized resistance to his glorious Socialist view of life for the Warsaw countries.
Rant over.
Brought on by one disrespectful comment by someone trying to underrate and compare our veterans from all wars, to a Big bag of Norweigan pompt and ceremony on a hockey rink, and saying "we can't even compare to them".
If by comparing, the benchmark being
, then the answer is no,....... we can't touch them at that.Happy New Year to all CGN'ers. All the best for 2012!
It's interesting how the various Nazi-occupied countries have developed their own myths/beliefs about the extent to which active resistance ocurred during WW2. In every case there was a range of responses to the Nazis ranging from outright collaboration through passive non-co-operation to active guerilla warfare. France was especially interesting where it seemed that anyone who did anything from pi$$ing in a German's beer to blowing up a railroad could claim to have been a member of the resistance.
Countries had to measure their degree of resistance to the realities of the situation. Finland did the best, bar none, in fighting against the invader. At a point even they had to accept the inevitable and sue for terms with the Russians, even at the cost of fighting the Germans who they were originally allied with. One sad fact is that the Nazis found fertile ground for recruitment in most of these countries with considerable numbers of their nationals joining the SS. Norway had some 15,000 of these volunteers. All of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark also had varying numbers of their nationals enlisting with the Germans, a fact which disturbs their preferred view of history.
Norway had a population of less than 4 million during WW2 and only has a million more today. It is a big country relative to the population and is tough to defend militarily. We became part of this equation in the late 1960's when the Trudeau Liberals withdrew us from a meaningful NATO role in central Europe. After this we took up the contingency tasks of sending the AMF battalion and CAST brigade to defend the Norwegian flank against the Ruskies. For those of us who were involved with this it represented a forlorn hope with vivid historical precedents in both Hong Kong and Dieppe.
Countries had to measure their degree of resistance to the realities of the situation. Finland did the best, bar none, in fighting against the invader. At a point even they had to accept the inevitable and sue for terms with the Russians, even at the cost of fighting the Germans who they were originally allied with. One sad fact is that the Nazis found fertile ground for recruitment in most of these countries with considerable numbers of their nationals joining the SS. Norway had some 15,000 of these volunteers. All of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark also had varying numbers of their nationals enlisting with the Germans, a fact which disturbs their preferred view of history.
Norway had a population of less than 4 million during WW2 and only has a million more today. It is a big country relative to the population and is tough to defend militarily. We became part of this equation in the late 1960's when the Trudeau Liberals withdrew us from a meaningful NATO role in central Europe. After this we took up the contingency tasks of sending the AMF battalion and CAST brigade to defend the Norwegian flank against the Ruskies. For those of us who were involved with this it represented a forlorn hope with vivid historical precedents in both Hong Kong and Dieppe.
We've got nothing on them... but then again some of us are preoccupied with war-fighting
Professional soldiers can fight wars and troop their Colours, each when the circumstances require it. Others have the fantasy of being "Sgt Rock" or "Captain America". The drill performance was outstanding demonstration of what professionals can do.
