Thanks for posting this. It is informative and what they are doing needs to be encouraged. It is tragic to see the Afghan people so torn between allegiances. Then again, they have been doing it for hundreds of years, unfortunately....Nicola must be absolutely gutted. I feel so sorry for her.

This is an excellent doc. video showing what it is like on the ground - very good work. Thanks

sad story but great report. thanks for putting this up!

That last part where the camera zoomed out made me cry

Great tips, Armchair-General sennakayne..

nice work canadian helping ppl ^__^ gud.luck guys more power in take care always on ur mission =)

You know.....All we can do is try......Try to leave, Try to help, Try not to hate,and Try to feed... As a Warrior I have a job. I love my job and I hate that people hate me because I do what I have to do. Until you really understand and go over there you will then see why, but until then YOU may hate me and I will take that hate from you and hold it....Never Sorry for what we do because we love it.......I pray for the day when the world really needs us.....Pray we will be there for YOU...

hahha at 2:30 when the guy is trolling that girl hhahahhahahha i'm dead XD

I can see why that woman is an officer. She understands the social side to this war, and the consequences of not 'winning hearts and minds'. NATO needs more soldiers like her in Afghanistan.

was that soldier playing online game? they have internet there? is so I wana join the army for sure haha

if they're on "our" side then we should treat them in such a way. I completely agree.

That guy is playing Ghost Recon AW2, I recognized the graphics and setting right away.

hey ferriss great job choice get the taiban for me please

what game was he playing?? :D looked nice xD

lol at the soldier playing a video game, bless him

I can speak fluent farsi and english and good russian. I wanna go with the army and help the afghans. Where do I go to for recruitment?

thanks for the info artinyyk....dan

LoL, let me guess. The LAV rescue vehicle is HEAVIER than the normal one? Reminds me of problems we had when the CV90 got stuck in swamp areas where we trained. The Leopard 1 rescue vehicle was twice as heavy. Goes without saying that you cant drive a 40tonn tank into a area where a 20tonn got stuck...

what is a main bearing..the lav 3 has 2 bearings around a planetary gear hub in each wheel..there is no main bearing, they are sealed off and if they broke you could still move

@ezy227 if she is trained and wants to be on the frontline she can, an extra pair of hands to help win this war. She is brave enough to fight for her country, i give her respect for that cuz i'd be shit scared carrying that gun in my hand and knowing that i could die any second.

If we go in and fight we get criticised, if we do nothing we get criticised, if we have an opinion we are criticised, we are even criticised for just being who we are. We are blamed for all the world's wrongs, expected to address them and criticised for doing so.

2:22 Tim Hortons coffee mug!

What is the game that the guy is playing? :O

Sad... Just shows that we need to stand up to the plate! Any Europeans (UK not included) reading this, you guys really need to give us a hand! And I'm specifically calling out the France, Itlay, Germany etc., we and Afghanistan need you guys to fulfill your commitment to the mission.

I think we, as people, need to pick our wars. I hate when they say they have 'exhausted' all options; if they exhausted all options, they wouldn't be in Afghanistan and/or Iraq... Thank god they're "out" of Iraq now...

sad story :( that women should make women all over the world proud shes a real trooper

simple rules"if there's love there's peace if no love there is no peace..go for love if you want peace.go nikcola's love is the the easy way to make peace..

artinyyk, I used to be reasonably schooled in history, who is Shinseki ? thanks...dan

They should never put the civilians at risk if there is even a small chance of having to leave them to their luck, they should never of established contact with them. This is a sad story, poor people they really suffer a lot.

Candada KICKS ASS!! Thank you guys for the support. We are forever indebted to you

She is not a Pl Comd. She is a Sgt, meaning she is a section comd. As a PRT her job is to provide aid, the Infantry Pl with her is not under her command, they are there to protect her.

If they were JTF2 they wouldnt of allowed them to film. Most likely a high ranking NCM, or and Officer. ~Thanato

i wish i have money to help good poor people in afghanistan.

@black00dice No, but the troops that were helping them with medicine and supplies left, leaving them alone with no one to help them, and as mentioned on the end, they are going to suffer from retaliation for helping them against the taliban

@scoutbr00 yea, i think they should continue getting supplies by any means necessary

I think this is why this war is going so slow and victory is a long way. If you promise something, you gotta stick to it. Abandoning people while they practically have execution waiting for them is terrible and above all immoral. We need more troops in Afghanistan to create a stable situation. This way of working is not going to do any good, not for anybody..

i think nicolas is doing the right thing by winning the trust of the people

How do the Lav compair to an m113 or bradley?

War is hard, and saddening. :( We need more ressources, I don't understand how we could not provide them with all they needed...

Breaks my heart to see those children's faces. We will probably never know their fate after we were ordered to dismantle and leave the area. Shame, crying shame.

they have some serious mustaches

what game was that

Does anyone know what ended up happening to that village ?

More soldiers. More workers. More suplies and MORE THINGS. Help those people.

Every task is extremely daunting.

What the hell type of vehicles are those at 2:55? If they run over an IED with that they are done.

@ArticToaster - i'm sure all the niceness disappears when she pulls on the trigger, impossible mission.....ironic that the guy is playing war games in the real sense and later back at the base, one giant absurdity, maybe they'll put up a monument to it someday!

ya they say you can never buy an afghan, you can only rent him

after watching this, i guess it will be hard for coalitions to win in afgan. one hand we try to help them get rid of taliban, the other hand we make them feel unlucky to sided with us coz we leave them when they start to get our trust and being left for the taliban to punish them..if we want to win againts taliban, come and stay and bring a lot of nicolas who sencerely want to help not just there for the shootout.

I felt so sorry to her and the villagers.

2:10 call of duty? XD Possible but I thought it was Ghost recon aw or something, check 1:54 XD

@MrSav720 lost in paperwork and bureaucracy problems. If you ask the soldiers on the ground, they are wondering why they can't have clearance to do anything either.

@scoutbr00 if they dont got more medic stuff how are they supossed to continue. i know it should i feel bad for them. but if they cant, they cant.

Make sure you have the supplies before you ask the people to come,very simple things to get right ,rgarding the water pumps come on to fix 12 pumps surely this should not be an issue ,,,,

@shooterist ghost recon advanced warfighter for the PC, it looks different than the console versions.

was that guy playing a video game???

there trying the best they can, its not really the falt of the canadians, we r under supplyed and dont have enough man power over there to really complete the job, we need to get more of our guys out there and get this job done.

This video got to be shown to those who oppose increasing the number of troops and resources.

No they are not old or disgarded models. They are the same basic gun but colt canada modifies them to better suit the enviroments and needs of Canda

I noticed that the US Army's soldiers are the most pumped during fighting

Well the only recent general I ever trusted was Eric Shinseki. So bring him back and I think we'd have a chance rooferdan.

All nations have bad companies, the US in particular considering they have the largest presence and largest army in the conflict. There's always the good and effective, and the bad and ineffective. People will be people, and people make mistakes and are imperfect.

The UK US and Canada are the three main countries helping out over there we are the ones doing the most at the moment

wat game was that guy playing on his laptop at 1:54

Canada doesn't use American vehicles, The APC used in the video is a LAV III.

man I wish we could have helped at least just that one little town we almost gained their respect it seems, then we abandoned them while the taliban has made them a target. Hopefully the rest of the world will understand this issue and be more involved in it soon!

@yassamena17 also im from the U.S and i think Canadian soldiers are some real heros. on a different note they did some good shit in world war 2 and they didnt get the credit that they deserve seriously when i was learning about ww2 in high school i heard about canada's efforts like once the whole time and when i looked it up i saw that they did just as much as the british and americans did.

dependence is horrible. they force it on the people. they are not helping for the benefit of the people, just self interest. :(

This is what happens when you allow the Canadians aid the people, they encourage the people to help them and then leave them for the Taliban. Americans would never do that!!

That's awful! Almost everything went wrong then they leave. And after ALL THAT, we STILL don't know the outcome of the story for ANYBODY in the video!

Are you talking about how long it took to get the supplies? It's a war zone. Getting supplies is an extremely hard thing to do. Not all supplies can be carried on by helicopter. There are so many complications.

poor civilians, the campaign should have continued

@MrMk2908 maybe but they also put candy on the ground and underneath there was a bomb and wen the child went to pick up the candy they blew it up this was so the parents of the childern would have to takecare of their child and not go off and fight the red army.

I think it's Ghost Recon. But I'm not sure which one.

@Otacon237 I did not ask you to 'prove' anything, you might want to read back my replies. I think you look into matters like these with an one sided perspective. You might want to consider that they didnt do it just to help the locals, it was because the locals might help them or might refuse to help the Taliban. Since you are such a smart person who studied 'military history', can you explain the different reasons for invading Afghanistan?

I don't see why they can not just get spark plugs flown into them along with other things.

exactly!!!!!!

I hope obama authorizes the extra troops, they sure as hell could use them.

20 years you making jokes on this poor people😢😢

What is Canada doing their????How would you like it if another powerful country do the same thing to you?

it was my understanding that they were special forces and giving her shit, but she did the right thing without taking crap from them.

More afghan troops are needed, with better screening procedures.

damn wheels :s use track vehicles

exactly

"they've made themselves targets" because of you guys.

if they spent a small amount of the billions they do on war and put it into aiding each village, you'd wonder whether that would have more longer lasting effect than all the bombing etc does...

since when is it "OK " to ask these simple villagers to assist and expose themselves to western forces only to later abandon them to a terrible fate at the hands of the talliban....what a discrace!

his from ailbak, what does it mean?0:09

I meant in regards of having to leave and not having the proper resources.

trust me bro the marines get shit all compared to the army, i have friends in the marines the army is a whole division so they get much more funding, marines is a small branch of front line troops

Finaly! Someone truly understands why we need to finish the job! If only the Euros can get off their asses and step up... Canada needs a little breather!

Sad about the villagers, they don't really have a choice but co-operate with whichever force is near them. Can't blame a village for not co-operating with NATO if they know NATO is going to leave after a short time and leave the village to be punished by the Taliban savages. Awkward situation.

if they kill all villagers, they don´t have to bother with making friend with them.

It is embarrassing for every army. The officer exposed here is a regular occurence. Every army has good officers and bad officers, and mediocre officers. It has always been that way, and it will continue until the end of armies and military, indeed the end of the world which sees war as progression, which is our current world, which will always see war as progresssion.

Because there are people like the Taliban out there. There are always bullies in the world that have to be dealt with.

There is more harm done to the credibility of the coalition forces as a result. They came out from nowhere, broke their promises and disappeared because they were ordered somewhere else.If I were a local,I cannot bring myself to believe such a large army,rich country and they couldn't replace my water pumps.

4:27 Lolz....they pull the guys turban up....and he jumps

@Otacon237 shes not in charge she's like a PR person.

they wont tell the canadian forces because if they taliban finds out that the villagers are rating them out they will watch there families and fellow friends die.

well if you think about it there's got to be hundreds of requests for things like this, and it simply cant all be done. im sure there are a number of reasons for this, low on funding, or maybe the just cant find the parts, simple as