Canadian Armed Forces

Mr. Belzile describes the high level of training received by the Canadian military in Cold War Europe

Mr. Belzile discusses how your troops can ruin your career quicker than your superiors.

Mr. Belzile describes patrolling the Korean Demilitarized zone, and some aspects of living there.

Mr. Belzile discusses his deployment to Korea, via Japan.

Mr. Belzile discusses developing a command structure in a unit and mutual respect between officers and NCO’s.

Mr. Seale explains the training process received as an officer with focus on courses relating to the structure of the military.

Mr. Paterson talks about his life being threatened after sending troops in to no man’s land to pick up oil drums.

Mr. Paterson talks about the differences between working for the UN vs NATO.

Mr. Paterson talks about being in command of a platoon in Cyprus and he talks about the job the platoon did. He talks about how the platoon improved the area even though he did not think that is what the UN wanted to accomplish.

Mr. Paterson talks about why he thinks we won the cold war.