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Brigadier General Rob Roy MacKenzie, not wearing his "popcorn"
Vancouver Police Department Medal with his undress ribbons... probably
because the ribbon can't be ordered from Logistic Unicorp. |
A kind reader recently spotted Brigadier General Rob Roy MacKenzie, who is now the Canadian Army's Chief of Staff for Reserves, parading around wearing a phoney medal. While the General demonstrated admirable and lengthy service in Afghanistan, it seems he has felt it necessary to dress up his group with a totally unapproved popcorn medal. Aside from being an Officer of the Order of Military Merit and having earned a slew of honours for service overseas in unpleasant places, the General has "enhanced' his group with the Vancouver Police Department 125th Anniversary Medal. The medal, which cost $20,000 to issue to members of the VPD and others "supporters" was funded through the Vancouver Police Department Foundation... a rather colossal waste of money that could have been used in a more constructive manner than creating another police popcorn medal.
It is more than a little embarrassing to have a General Officer prancing around wearing a popcorn medal that is not authorized at all. Even more so as he stands beside a veteran of the Second World War who served in France & Germany and Italy amongst other places. Of course the Second World War veteran has NOT enhanced his group in any way. Where is an RSM to call the General out on his medal wearing buffoonery?
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Brigadier-General Rob Roy MacKenzie taking the salute, while wearing
the Vancouver Police Department 125th Anniversary Medal. Another popcorn police gong, totally unauthorized for wear with anything but a Halloween costume. |
I always thought those gold general officer cuff rings looked ridiculous. The bloody Liberals should have left both the rings and the cheesy looking gold maple leafs they re-instated in the old "CF trash can".
ReplyDeleteI was the General's platoon WO when he was 2nd Lt.I saw him to day and advised him that he was on this site.He acknowlaged that he should not have mounted that medal and assured me it was coming down.
ReplyDeleteI blame his sgt maj for not calling him on it sooner
Delete@langet completely disagree - the pips and crowns are confusing, old, and unnecessary. The bars were much simpler; and a Canadian solution. I hope they go all the way and reinstate the bars for the army.
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ReplyDeleteHow do you like his salute? He is literally patting himself on the head. Such a shitty salute usually reserved for the navy.
ReplyDeleteMacKenzie is a good man. He's done more soldiering than you petty-minded losers put together. If he was wearing that Police medal, it's because he earned it the hard way and was authorized to wear it by a "higher" authority. He didn;t just stitch it on himself! He was a sniper in the Vancouver Police tactical team and knows his stuff. Indeed there was a direct cross-pollination between his Police and Army service which complemented each other and enhanced the respective institutions. But I don't expect you to understand any of that. You people (and I use the term loosely) need to get a life. This is shaming gig you're on is just tacky and infantile. And the language used: "parading about", "prancing about", and "popcorn medal" shows not only a marked lack of understanding of the nature of service and a complete lack of respect, but reveals your petty troll agenda rather glaringly. I hope you're not ex-military yourself, because no self-respecting veteran would behave in such a way. Shame on you. You're behaving like some embittered corporal for life Range Control shithead. I have no doubt you'll remove this comment because you're a sniping, cowardly keyboard warrior. Pathetic!
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