The First Boot In ISIS's Butt Ain't Ours

COL Ted Mc — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:19:42 -0500

From "The Associated Press"

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CN_CANADA_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP

Canadian soldiers exchange fire with ISIS in Iraq

TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian soldiers opened fire on Islamic State group extremists in Iraq over the last week in what was apparently the first ground firefight between Western troops and ISIS.

Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations command, said Monday the soldiers were visiting front-line positions with Kurdish peshmerga forces when they came under mortar and machine-gun fire. He said the Canadian soldiers fired back in self-defense.

The Canadian special forces soldiers, whose job is to train and advise the Iraqi military in their battle against the Islamic State group, were at the front to help plan an Iraqi operation. Rouleau said the Canadians used sniper fire and "neutralized" the machine gun and mortar without taking any casualties.

[EDITORIAL COMMENT:- I believe that "neutralized" has the same meaning in the Canadian military as it does in the US military (at least amongst those who put "boots on the ground"). {I think in the air force it means "painted a sort of off beige", but I could be wrong there, and the Navy still sticks with the good old traditional "sank".}