Sort yourselves out
Memo to the folks at CanWest: the nickname Van Doos refers exclusively to members of the Royal 22e Régiment. Twenty-second corresponds to vingt-deuxième, which gets slurred into vandoo.
The nickname does not refer to every soldier from Quebec, or to francophone soldiers, or to any other made-up mishmash you care to fabricate.
The late MCpl Duchesne was not a Van Doo, he was a member of 5e Ambulance de campagne (5th Field Ambulance). Get it right.
Update: At least the CBC has the good grace to correct its story and admit to the error. Better not to screw it up in the first place, though.
And, geez, even Christie got this one wrong:
No, it was the Battle Group's third death. Not everyone in the Battle Group is a Van Doo, folks.
Up-the-chain-of-command-date: Looks like I'm not the only one who noticed.
The nickname does not refer to every soldier from Quebec, or to francophone soldiers, or to any other made-up mishmash you care to fabricate.
The soldiers were members of Quebec's Royal 22nd Regiment, also known as the Van Doo, which took over command of the mission Aug. 1. The two slain troopers are the second and third members of the regiment to die in Afghanistan since Sunday. In all, 69 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed in the war-torn country since 2002.
The late MCpl Duchesne was not a Van Doo, he was a member of 5e Ambulance de campagne (5th Field Ambulance). Get it right.
Update: At least the CBC has the good grace to correct its story and admit to the error. Better not to screw it up in the first place, though.
And, geez, even Christie got this one wrong:
It was the regiment's third death since it arrived on the ground in southern Afghanistan less than three weeks ago.
No, it was the Battle Group's third death. Not everyone in the Battle Group is a Van Doo, folks.
Up-the-chain-of-command-date: Looks like I'm not the only one who noticed.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 11:43 a.m.
3 Comments:
Babble . . . I'm with you on this one but I fear it's hopeless.
When the MSM call anything and everything on tracks "a tank" and with a barrel "a gun", the concept of unit identification and the corresponding unit pride and recognition is just beyond them.
Fred, this whole blog is just tilting at windmills. But some fights you take on, not because you can win, but because they're worth fighting.
From DND
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=2436
An attempt to clear this up
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