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The New Haitian Army - First Mission: Build Roads

Petite Rivere de L'Aritibonite - What if Haiti had a military force that was actively involved in nation building? SMILE... It looks like this is what Haitian Defense Minister Jean-Rodolphe Joazile has in mind...

New Haitian Military - First 30 Recruits

In case you were thinking that the new Haitian army will be in the "KRAZE ZO" business, think again...

Haitian Defense Minister Jean-Rodolphe Joazile says:

"Haiti's needs are not in the infantry but in technical service. The country is in a state of reconstruction. We need mechanics."

The first batch of what will become the new Force Armee d'Haiti have returned from eight months of training in Ecuador. Their first task is building roads. They will tackle Route Nationale #1 and a road from a northern beach resort, the Associated Press says.

These new recruits include 30 soldiers, 10 engineers and one officer.

Here are a couple of things you need to know about the these new recruits:

1 - They are not based in Port-au-Prince but in Petite Riviere de L'Artibonite, a small rice town in the Artibonite region, quite a distance from daily Haitian politics.

2 - They will not be carrying any weapons for now, maybe a hand gun but "no GWO zam fann fwa"

If the Haitian leaders truly want to build a army of professionals who can efficiently master the skills to help build a better country, I don't think the people will have any problem with that. in fact I think it will help to heal a big wound in our history.

After all, we do not have any enemies (that we can fight) so an army of professionals is a darn good idea...

Come to think of it... It would be interesting if the people in charge of building a new Haiti were actually "FOLLOWING ORDERS"

Order: Go fix the road...
Response: SIR YES SIR...

What do you think about that?

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Herold Cophy says...

I cant understand why some of country don't like Haitian army. For my answer, yes we need Haitian army we don't like army from another more »