I agree with Mr. TrudellBԪַs suggestion regarding adapting military helicopters to fight forest fires. Unfortunately, our armed forces are in such a sorry state of neglect that out of 25 nations participating in a two-week-long BԪַAir DefenderBԪַ exercise in Germany, the largest deployment exercise in NATOBԪַS history, including little countries like Bulgaria, Latvia and even two non-NATO nations Japan and Sweden, Canada is embarrassingly absent.
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