Carlos D.
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Read on the news .Canadian army to enlist landed imigrants --Just doesnt seem right does it?
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LANDED IMIGRANTS
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Carlos D.
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I think a landed imigrant is some one who just arrived to canada--apparentely before you had to be in canada for 5 years before you could join the militaryFrankie":3phpyc3o said:
CUZ
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OH. Landed imigrants = Just landed in the Country imigrants.
I too was baffled by what the term meant, thanks for clearing that up. Now I see your point and no that doesn't seem right, but maybe there's more to it that I'm just not understanding.
Cuz
I too was baffled by what the term meant, thanks for clearing that up. Now I see your point and no that doesn't seem right, but maybe there's more to it that I'm just not understanding.
Cuz
Carlos D.
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Im thinking that to --must be more to itCUZ":3aztgc4p said:
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rkm
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Must be nice to be in a fox hole with a couple guys who just got off a boat from Iran.
I found this. It doesn't explain the term "landed immigrant", but does say why they're considering allowing them in the military.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/natio ... 66&k=50301
"MONTREAL - The Canadian Forces may drop Canadian citizenship as a prerequisite for military service in order to boost the country's lagging troop strength.
Enlisting landed immigrants is just one idea being looked at by the Forces, Capt. Helene Tremblay said.
''If we want to meet our recruitment targets, it might be necessary,'' said Tremblay, a military-career counsellor at Montreal's Canadian Forces recruiting centre.
A decision is expected in the next few months, she added.
Maj. Andy Coxhead, a spokesman for the Forces' main recruiting group at Ontario's Camp Borden, confirmed in a telephone interview that discussions among military officials on the subject are ongoing.
No decision that threatens national security will be taken and any ''radical change'' to the recruiting process will require high-level approval, Coxhead said.
But change to the recruitment process is coming, he added.
Last year, 5,873 men and women joined the Forces 1,520, or 20 per cent, of whom were from Quebec.
With those numbers, the Canadian military is not growing at a fast enough pace and eventually would be unable to meet its international commitments, Tremblay said.
At any given time, 40 per cent of Canada's 63,000 regular troops and reservists are engaged in operational missions and pre-deployment, she said.
Canada's high-profile mission in Afghanistan, in which 26 soldiers have been killed, including seven this month, is one of only 18 to which the Forces is committed.
As a result, the military has undertaken a national recruitment program, known as Operation Connection.
The cross-Canada initiative aims to raise the military's profile and boost troop strength to 75,000 over the next five years.
At the same time, the Forces is looking at other ways to increase troop strength.
Speaking to a Senate committee this year, Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's top soldier, floated the idea of fast-tracking citizenship to landed immigrants who serve in the Canadian Forces.
The idea is not new. The famed French Foreign Legion was created by the king of France in 1831 to support his war in Algeria. Today, 25 to 35 per cent of its membership is French, and the remainder are from all over the world. After three years of service, the latter group is allowed to apply for French citizenship."
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/natio ... 66&k=50301
"MONTREAL - The Canadian Forces may drop Canadian citizenship as a prerequisite for military service in order to boost the country's lagging troop strength.
Enlisting landed immigrants is just one idea being looked at by the Forces, Capt. Helene Tremblay said.
''If we want to meet our recruitment targets, it might be necessary,'' said Tremblay, a military-career counsellor at Montreal's Canadian Forces recruiting centre.
A decision is expected in the next few months, she added.
Maj. Andy Coxhead, a spokesman for the Forces' main recruiting group at Ontario's Camp Borden, confirmed in a telephone interview that discussions among military officials on the subject are ongoing.
No decision that threatens national security will be taken and any ''radical change'' to the recruiting process will require high-level approval, Coxhead said.
But change to the recruitment process is coming, he added.
Last year, 5,873 men and women joined the Forces 1,520, or 20 per cent, of whom were from Quebec.
With those numbers, the Canadian military is not growing at a fast enough pace and eventually would be unable to meet its international commitments, Tremblay said.
At any given time, 40 per cent of Canada's 63,000 regular troops and reservists are engaged in operational missions and pre-deployment, she said.
Canada's high-profile mission in Afghanistan, in which 26 soldiers have been killed, including seven this month, is one of only 18 to which the Forces is committed.
As a result, the military has undertaken a national recruitment program, known as Operation Connection.
The cross-Canada initiative aims to raise the military's profile and boost troop strength to 75,000 over the next five years.
At the same time, the Forces is looking at other ways to increase troop strength.
Speaking to a Senate committee this year, Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's top soldier, floated the idea of fast-tracking citizenship to landed immigrants who serve in the Canadian Forces.
The idea is not new. The famed French Foreign Legion was created by the king of France in 1831 to support his war in Algeria. Today, 25 to 35 per cent of its membership is French, and the remainder are from all over the world. After three years of service, the latter group is allowed to apply for French citizenship."
Carlos D.
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The french foriegn legion is notorious for not asking any Questions -they have some pretty notorious criminals. there Discipline must be god awful strict
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Carlos D.
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rkm":ugqux7bj said:
probably be ok if you gave em a hug :D
Pretty common way to gain citizenship in the us. Lots of young immigrants in the military.
As for the ha ha remark about Iranians - we might want to recruit a few if we are going to be embarking on yet another invasion...we have had a hell of a time getting/keeping Arabic speakers for our current occupation. (and Iranians don't speak Arabic either)
As for the ha ha remark about Iranians - we might want to recruit a few if we are going to be embarking on yet another invasion...we have had a hell of a time getting/keeping Arabic speakers for our current occupation. (and Iranians don't speak Arabic either)
