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Description
Major Mac Culloch shares the circumstances of a confrontation with workers on a logging operation.
Wayne Mac Culloch
Le Major Wayne Mac Culloch est né en 1953 au Cap Breton et il a grandi au Québec. À 18 ans, il a fréquenté le Collège royal militaire pour ensuite s’enrôler en 1968, à titre d’ingénieur militaire. M. Mac Culloch a été déployé trois fois en Bosnie et une fois en Haïti. Il a pris sa retraite après 41 ans de service. Il a ensuite travaillé avec le Ministère de la Défense nationale. Depuis 2004, M. Mac Culloch est un bénévole dévoué pour présenter le “Module de la paix” avec le programme Rencontres du Canada, partageant avec les jeunes l’importance du service et du sacrifice.
Transcription
The one situation I talk about frequently is one of the situations from rebuilding Bosnia and I paint the picture for them, the bullet point that’s on the slide is being attacked with chainsaws. It always gets a question and they say how did that happen? In essence, it’s a situation that I confronted an illegal logging operation and the fellows didn’t want to lose their jobs and they figured the easiest way to keep their jobs was to make me disappear. Once again you give them the situation, you say okay, you got two guys coming at you with chainsaws saying we will get you in twenty seconds, what do you do? And every now and again someone will say well why not try talking to them? And it is the answer that I used because really they didn’t mean me any harm they just didn’t want to lose their jobs. So I gave them a way of keeping their jobs and in fact me helping them keep their jobs by repairing the road that was in terrible shape. But the question that constantly comes up is, “Can you tell us about that story? ” It always sounds a lot more dramatic than what it was at the time because there really isn’t time to do anything but think your way through the problem. And I have been fortunate in that I have never had to draw a weapon.