Study: Canadian Snipers "coping as well or better than regular soldiers"
This summary of a paper just out at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC):
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This paper reports on the research conducted in the first year of a three-year study on the psychological well-being of snipers. This research began with an interview-based study of 19 snipers who had served in Afghanistan and who were still serving as snipers in Canadian army units. The results of this study show that the snipers had elevated scores on a generalized measure of psychological stress, but their scores were not as high as those of a sample of nonsnipers (from another study) who had served in Afghanistan. This finding suggests that the snipers were coping as well or better than regular soldiers. When asked about specific combat experiences, the differences were more dramatic, however. Snipers experienced more combat than the non-sniper group and expressed more concern over their combat experiences than the non-snipers. In contrast to these findings, the snipers also expressed high levels of satisfaction with their careers and stated that being a sniper had been a positive influence in their lives. Given the inconsistency of these findings, it is proposed that this research be expanded to include more standardized measures of possible outcomes and a larger sample during the second and third years of the project.
J. Peter Bradley (Department of Military Psychology and Leadership, Royal Military College of Canada), "An Exploratory Study on Sniper Well-Being: Report on the First Year of Sniper Well-Being Research (FY 2008-2009)," DRDC, July 2010 (link to 37 page study at Scribd.com)
He no longer posts here due to personal commitments.
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anna
Norflok,
I am surpriced by what kind of mis-inforamtion you post on here.
It is obviouse to any insider that you have NO IDEA
about the Canadian Army, its structure, equipment and such.
You will do everyone here a great service if you would restrain yourself from posting such gross mis-information!!
ANYONE realy interested in the Canadian army can find the REAL info by keystroke!
He did serve in the Canadian Army and he was fairly well connected and tried to stay current. The post you presumably reference is dated June, 2008 and specifically cites another person as the source from an earlier posting on another site.
A lot can happen in two and a half years...
I'm curious. What's an insider in this case? A guy who was in the force discussed or a good web researcher? ;)
Canadian Govt to restore "Royal" title to Navy/Airforce
The Harper Government of Canada in order to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 and to celebrate the country's past military traditions, is changing the name's of the navy and Airforce back to Royal. However, the army will be branding just the "army" following British tradition on the naming subject. The names were changed in the 1960's as part of a move by the Liberal Government at the time to unify Canada's armed forces under various commands
This move as the article state's isn't without controversy as many say the money for the re-branding effort would be better spent. While some politicians especially from Quebec, see it as an effort by Harper to tie Canada closer to the UK.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2130125/
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