Talk:Joint Task Force 2

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Old talk page: Talk:Canadian special forces

The CBC link in the Haiti 2004 section

I have found no evidence that CBC reported the role of JTF-2 in Haiti on the February 29, 2004 kidnapping of Aristide. If someone has the source from CBC, they should include it as a footnote/reference. There's a good chance that I just simply haven't found it yet.

There is, however, a source in the Canadian Press wire service from March 5, 2004 that I will add.

Ageless 09:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC) ageless[reply]

JTF1?

This doesn't really pertain to the article, but is there another/previous JTF, thereby facilitating the 2 in JTF2?

This extracted from the official JTF-2 website. In Canadian military terminology "joint task force" refers to any force that is made up of two or more elements (land, air or sea) of the Canadian Force (CF). Since JTF-2 includes personal from all three elements it is considered a joint task force. When JTF-2 was formed it was given the "2" designation because there already a JTF-1 in use. There has been attempts recently to change the name for JTF-2, however, there is a lot of opposition to any name change. L.J. Brooks 18:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re-editing of article

I'm in the process of re-doing the JTF-2 article. There is no an official JTF-2 webpage up and running and I'm using information extracted from it to update the page. When finished I will attempt to do the same for CANSOFCOM and CSOR. L.J. Brooks 18:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing with my re-doing of this article. I've removed a couple of items (e.g.) the snippet about JTF 2 members deployed to Iraq. The only info on JTF in Iraq had to do with the rescue of the two peace activists. There has been no mention in the Canadian press about JTF being deployed into Iraq. I also removed the reference to the Canadian Forces Armed Assistance Directions as there is very little info on this process. I still have to sort out some of the references because some of the links are no longer valid. L.J. Brooks 17:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Under the heading Command, control and organisation it states that there are believed to be 250 men and woman (in theory anyway, as Canadian law is very clear about government discrimination, making no exception for combat. A good example would be a female LAV III commander Killed last year in Afghanistan.) in the JTF2 and that this could have increased to 600, and gives a citation that doesn't say that. It states in the citation that's given there are believed to be 350 men a woman in in the JTF2. I'm going to change it to reflect that. Colin 8 16:13, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]