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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
I guess that when these events took place, that general was a colonel. Anyway, Nick Nolte did a great job of portraying a professional, human, humane, and overwhelmed officer. My hat is off to Canada for sticking it out when other nations removed their peacekeeping troops. I also have the highest regard for the Candians who served there. I would not have performed as well under those conditions.
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Nope he was a general back then too... he's retired now...
Basically he fell apart after what he saw, and couldn't stop; in the end he was found dead drunk with a pistol to his head along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa (think the Mall in DC) and had to be talked out of sucide...
I can't off the top of my head think of any of the troops that served there that don't have some type of emotional or stress disorder...
My unit was put on emergency stand-by to fly in; but Canada lacked (as still does) the rapid transport capability to move troops into a hostile enviroment... so without UN (and in our case US) support for an emergency intervention we sat there because we couldn't deploy... perhaps the lowest I ever felt was then, because we could get the radio sit-reps, and we knew how desperate the situation was.
