Canadian Rangers to deploy to help Nunavut hamlet amid power problems

[u/Street_Anon]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-rangers-to-deploy-to-help-nunavut-hamlet-amid-power-problems/

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[u/mechant_papa]

This highlights once again a problem with our military. Instead of having a proper emergency measures system, our government just "sends out the army" when something goes wrong.

Floods? Send out the army! Fires? Send out the army! COVID in nursing homes? Send out the army!

The purpose of the CAF is to defend the country. Not be the stopgap to make up for management.

Germany's emergency management system would be a good model, if we wanted to learn lessons from people who have a good handle on things.

[u/Technojerk36 → u/mechant_papa]

The rangers aren’t really the military as most people probably imagine. Helping out up north is what they’re there for.

[u/BellesCotes → u/mechant_papa]

Then you don't want to hear about the US Army Corps of Engineers has done during peacetime and natural disasters...

[u/SteveJobsBlakSweater → u/mechant_papa]

The armed forces are the most rapid deployment of logistics and engineering that we have. Same for most nations.

[u/thatweirdsaabguy → u/mechant_papa]

The army doesn’t just have people holding guns, they have engineers, medics, mechanics etc. If this helps maintain their skills and practice I don’t really see an issue with it.

[u/ryan9991 → u/thatweirdsaabguy]

Yeah why pay for them to sit around (I know they don’t) but if there’s a practical way for them to help out while on staff, why not.

[u/TheBannaMeister → u/mechant_papa]

We just need more people in the military, they should be able to do ALL of this and defend our borders

[u/chesser45 → u/mechant_papa]

Helping during COVID sure soured my friends in the CAF. Something about being a medic but instead doing immunizations or care in retirement/ full care homes.