Kevin Patterson

Retired soldier, Sapper, Ex Paratrooper, I try to tweet fun and interesting stuff, but sometimes get sucked into crappy Twitter stuff.

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@MarcKieley @CanadianArmy Congrats on a successful command, but let’s be honest, no one looks forward to working at HQ 😂. Enjoyed your tweets, @Army_Comd_Armee should leverage you on effective use of social media. I haven’t seen an officer use social media as effectively since US Army @TedMartin1775

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@towhey The CO and RSM are often in social settings together, more than you probably think.

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@MarcKieley At 03:30 with an unnamed CO of the Cdn AB Regt after the Regt hockey team lost a game

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but is it possible that the @ottawacity has purposely snarled traffic in the city to try and get more riders on @OC_Transpo

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@m_Janelle @MarcKieley And don’t forget 4 years towards a pension when they graduate

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

If you want to know why all the deeply silly “dog rape” stories were published this week, it’s because the paid pro-Palestinian influencer squad were ordered to get ahead of this, genuine horror story.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On this day in 1945, American soldiers opened the gates of Dachau and walked straight into hell.

Battle-hardened U.S. troops from the 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions thought they had seen the worst of war. Nothing prepared them for what they found on April 29.

A “death train” from Buchenwald with 40 rail cars stacked with thousands of rotting corpses. Inside the camp: piles of bodies, living skeletons shuffling through the grounds, the overpowering stench of death, disease, and starvation. More than 32,000 prisoners remained — many Jews — ravaged by years of slave labor, medical experiments, and systematic cruelty. Just days earlier, the SS had sent more than 7,000 on a final death march. Thousands never made it.

Dachau was the original Nazi concentration camp, operating since 1933. What started as a site for political prisoners became the blueprint for industrialized dehumanization. By the end, the crematoria couldn’t keep up.

The soldiers were physically sickened. Some wept openly. Others, in raw fury after seeing the horrors, killed SS guards on the spot. The scenes were so devastating that General Eisenhower personally toured the camps, determined that no one could ever call this propaganda.

Dachau was not an extermination camp like Auschwitz, yet more than 41,000 people were murdered or died there.

These were men, women, and children whose only crime was being Jewish — or simply being in the way of the Nazi machine. For years, the world had closed its doors to Jews, trapping them. Immigration quotas. The 1939 British White Paper that slammed shut the gates of Mandate Palestine even as Europe burned. Jews had nowhere to run.

That is why Jewish sovereignty is not optional.

A strong, independent, Jewish State of Israel is the only promise that never again will Jewish survival depend on the mercy of others, the conscience of foreign armies, or the goodwill of hostile neighbors. Israel gave the Jewish people a home, an army, and the power to defend themselves.

Am Yisrael Chai.

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@MAGAMIKE1953 @SenatorShaheen And you have made the Senator’s point.

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@JaysonGeroux @CWGC There is also the graves of a number of soldiers from 23 Fd Coy RCE who were responsible for evacuating the trapped paratroopers across the Neder Rijn River. Every British paratrooper who made it out of Arnhem alive owes their life to a Canadian Engineer.

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@Churchill4wit @greta Only America would start a war and then berate their allies from a defensive alliance for not joining in.

[Jayson Geroux @JaysonGeroux]

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"Sadly Today I Close My Eyes And Dream,
And Once Again, My Son, I See Your Smile. Mother."

– The statement written on the tombstone by the mother of Private Robert Edward Bailey, the Royal Regiment of Canada, killed in action...⬇️

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@fjmaloney1 @MidOfficer I always liked the guideline, you can talk to the press as long as you stick to your specific area of expertise. I’d you’re a C6 gunner, then talk about your C6

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@MLB120012 @GadSaad I’ve known her since she was a 2nd Lt and couldn’t agree more

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@1981Descartes @GadSaad Yes she has, you should read her bio

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@XCorpAdvocate @GadSaad She’s far more qualified than Pete

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@rthonb85 @davidpugliese What you leave out is that when Reservists are incorporated into the RegF and trained for a mission eg Afghanistan they are valuable Mbrs of the team who carry out their assigned tasks to the highest standards.

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

WOW 🇨🇦 a fentanyl DRUG TRAFFICKER is possibly avoiding deportation because of possible lung cancer? And instead will be treated by our medical system, while MILLIONS of honest tax paying Canadians can’t even get a doctor 🤯

OH, and he was ordered to be deported in 2019

[Kevin Patterson @xabspr]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Canadian Task Force 3-06 Aug 2006-Feb 2007