00:00Look at it realistically. Why does Trinidad and Tobago need its own army, its own defence force?
00:07Because if there's any major aggression or major attempt at anything, you will still need the help of external forces to assist you.
00:18What is the purpose of us spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on this thing we call our army, our regiment,
00:28our defence force?
00:30He says, while they look nice in their uniforms during the parades, there is no useful purpose the nation derives from the army.
00:38When it was suggested that the soldiers assist with national disasters, this was the response from the attorney at law.
00:46Let's set up a disaster relief task force. Don't call it an army and be paying them and you have them day after day with rifles,
00:55with guns, with ammunition, et cetera, doing nothing. I'm sorry to say I am really sorry to be so blunt this morning.
01:04But, you know, I thought about it and I asked myself, what do we achieve as a nation by having a defence force and an army?
01:15They really cannot defend us if we are under any serious attack by any external force.
01:20He says there are more productive ways these trained personnel can apply their skills.
01:26The police service is short of manpower, et cetera. Then maybe what you can do is a cadre of these officers,
01:34you then send them for the specialised police training, you know, and then you draft them into the police service because they would have skills that are useful.
01:44So instead of you then having this whole thing about, well, joint army police patrols, then you have an expanded police service
01:51because you keep saying that you are short of manpower within the police service.
01:56Mr. George says the training and discipline they acquire from the army is a very useful skill that many companies will be interested in for team leaders
02:06or supervisors who can get things in line and enforce rules and regulations.
02:11He also weighed in on the missing ammunition from the Komuto barracks.
02:16OK, if it is possibly an accounting error, then explain, well, how did that happen?
02:22What is it that you have to fire the accountant or the persons who are keeping a track of your stocks, your stores, your ammunition?
02:28Because, you know, a $25,000 mistake, $25,000 number mistake is not something that you would easily overlook.
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