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Article: Our militia: brainwashed by the regulars.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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According to LCol Thomas Pope Gilday, DSO, ED, UE, a prominent former Militiaman and a Special Service Force battalion commander at Anzio, Cassino, and later battalion commander and staff officer in Northwest Europe, "our current militia is completely brainwashed by the Regular Force and is wandering around like lost sheep."
Gilday describes himself as an old soldier who refuses to fade away and who hopes to be heard. He signs himself LCol, not retired, claiming, "the militia never retires." He contends that the Honourary Colonels of Militia units should not be required to go before the Chief of the Defence Staff and be told what to do. Rather, they should be ...