View Full Version : A French Soldier's View of US Soldiers in Afghanistan
BMT (RIP)
12-17-2014, 08:10
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http://www.warriorlodge.com/blogs/news/16298760-a-french-soldiers-view-of-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan
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Honestly, not what I expected to read from a French soldier.
Very good article. Thanks for finding and posting it.
Team Sergeant
12-17-2014, 10:02
Great read!
Badger52
12-17-2014, 12:07
Wow (as to authorship)
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slimsflyfishing
12-17-2014, 14:15
Great article! Thanks for the post. Salute to all in uniform.
blacksmoke
12-17-2014, 15:30
Wasn't expecting that. Post clean up (police call) will make a man out of anyone lol! I wonder why no comments on the un-ending profanity and griping? Maybe because it pales in comparison to other western societies work ethics and the jobs all still get done.:lifter
The Reaper
12-17-2014, 15:53
Good read.
I find it hilarious that a Frenchman complains about Americans speaking English so badly he cannot understand it, after watching Parisians making fun of Americans who tried to speak French with them.
We bailed them out in WW I and WW II. In WW I they fought relatively well, but in WW II, they fell like a house of cards. Southeast Asia was not one of their highlights either, but we had our own struggles there.
Private MacKall, who Camp MacKall was named for, was killed by the French in North Africa.
They saved our chestnuts in the Revolutionary War. It was the French Navy that prevented the Brits from evacuating Yorktown in good order and fighting us another day elsewhere.
I had a French officer in a course with me. He and the Israeli competed for most arrogant.
I guess there are good and bad, like all of us.
TR
miclo18d
12-17-2014, 18:35
Wow! That was an amazing article and I was expecting the worst criticizisms. The writer even said how critical the French can be.
My team ended up MEDEVACing a french airborne unit and their afghan wounded (25 total wounded) from FB Robinson in 06. They were ambushed near Kajaki Dam and came to our base for help. We didn't even know they were in our AO. Needless to say, we found Spanish (7th GRP) as a common language to communicate with them.
We repatriated two of the French dead over the next few days. They were grateful. Polite. Non"freaked" about the whole incident. It was very surreal thinking back on it.
This is good and if we are honest truthful....we've all worked with our allies and been...well, eye opened.
We tend to under rate our own and over rate our opponents....and are then surprised when we walk all over them.
Never get cocky, just make a fair analysis.