Deployed: Canadian Army Reservists Overseas, 2017, CWO Chris Tucker, Part I
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In 2016, Mike Vernon interviewed 48 Alberta army reservists--serving and retired--about their experiences while deployed overseas from the Middle East, to Africa, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. These two segments about peacekeeping in the Balkans are taken from the subsequent video documentary Deployed: Canadian Army Reservists Overseas (2017)
"We should have been more prepared when we got here...This isn't Cyprus. This is a shooting war. We're showing up for a shooting war and we're not prepared for it."
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