France: la gloire de ses armes

[TicketyBoo]

In the light of this week's tiff with our neighbours, Ppruners may be interested to gain an insight into French military doctrine via the French Army's official magazine. Check out

http://www.flashbunny.org/content/frenchmagazine.html

[TheShadow]

The Frog He Would A Whoaing Go

Subject: French Policy Change


PARIS-- In a stunning reversal of policy, French President Jacques Chirac announced today that the French government will be supporting the War on Terror after all. Five hundred soldiers from the elite L'Abandonnement du Field d'Honneur Battalion (French Surrender Battalion) of the Legion Etrangere (Foreign Legion) are in the process of shipping out to Iraq where they will assist the elite Iraqi Republican Guards in their inevitable surrender to the overwhelming might of the American Armed Forces.

"Eet ees important to be haughty and insufferable when surrendering," said General Philippe de Peepee, the Commanding Officer of the Surrender Battalion, who has personally surrendered in over 200 battles going back to Dien Bien Phu in 1954. "We French are ze world masters at surrendering, n'est ce pas, not like you arrogant Americans who never surrender. Ha, I spit on your filthy American victories."

President Chirac also announced that his government will be sending 3000 advisors from the elite Force du Collaborateur Francaise (French Collaboration Force) to assist the Iraqis in collaborating with the Americans while pretending to be part of a nonexistent resistance movement.

[shack]

I wonder if you would like to repeat the above face to face with a member of the Foreign Legion. I should imagine that the average Legionaire would have you swallowing a little quickly.

[TicketyBoo]

The average Legionnaire would not be French.

[shack]

You are a bit out of date my old.

[maxburner]

To quote Groundskeeper Willie (on the subject of the French): ''Cheese eating surrender monkeys.'' And who said it was just a kid's show.

[Training Risky]

FOR SALE

1 million French WW2 era rifles,

never fired and only dropped once

[BEagle]

There are some extremely unpleasant and xenophobic e-mails flying around as a result of our French chums' refusal to suck Spam bum. Personally, having worked avec les grenouilles in the past, I have a lot of respect for their natural Gallic stubborn manner. All Frenchmen take it as a birthright to outsmart authority - whether that's the taxman or whoever - so licking the crimplene-clad ar$e of Uncle Spam is hardly a national characteristic!

Let me think, Chardonnay, Medoc, Camembert, Brie...........or Cold Duck and Monterrey Jack? Hmmm

[KENNYR]

Training Risky........dont forget their tanks. One forward gear, ten reverse!

[Baron rouge]

For sure all those Xenophobic smart arse will report to uncle Sam to make war for the hegemony of America upon the rest of the world.

You are pathetic

[BEagle]

Salut, Baron - et allez la France!








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[Flatus Veteranus]

Shack

I thought most of the other ranks in the Foreign Legion were Brits, who have usually done a stint in our grunts and could not settle in civvy street. N'est ce pas?

[ORAC]

Breakdown of present membership of the Foreign Legion by nationality:

53.5% French speaking of which 47% are French.
12.5% Latin.
11% German.
75 Anglo-Saxon.
5 Slavic.
11 Others.

Officially there are no Frenchmen in the Legion.

Total Estimated Strength Today = 8,500 Officers, Sous-Officers, NCO’s and Legionnaires. So all Anglo-Saxons make up less than 1%.

Foreign Legion database. And if you want to join to bump up the percentage, the nearest recruiting office to the UK is in Lille.

[Squawk7777]

geez! This shows your complete lack of knowledge about the Fall of France. Get a life!

sorry ORAC I didn't mean you. You posted quicker than me.

[SPIT]

I think their motto is WE ARE BETRAYED POOR FRANCE because that is the excuse they always make ??

[BlueWolf]

ORAC, xenophobic stereotypic preconceptions are no fun if you go shooting them down with facts

[opso]

Bluewolf is indeed correct. ORAC, I choose to ignore your researched facts and and stick with the much more entertaining xenophobia and pomposity. And so any other ostriches can support a blatant disregard for facts:

The French Foreign Legion is >90% manned by brits who found the British Army too tough and have opted for the easy option.

You can now say that 'somewhere' you saw that the Foreign Legion is over 90% manned by brits who found the British Army too tough and so you can feel justified in airing your views. OK, admittedly, I just made that quote up, but what's wrong with that?

[Baron rouge]

ticketyboo, shadow, maxburner, training risky, kennyr, spit, what a courageous lot of ****...rs.

You probably never hold a gun in your life, but you are supporting the courageous political whimps who govern you.

What a fait indeed to pour bombs on unarmed citizens of IRAK once you have made sure they have no arm to defend themselves.

And to forge proufs like blair and powel you should be ashamed of youselves.

Thanks God, people of England and the USA are more sensible as they rejected en masse their governement will to go to war.

[Training Risky]

Barone...

This is why there is a PROFILE button, so that you can check out a member's details before you talk sh*te!

If you had done this you would have seen that although I am not on the front line yet, (staying on the touchline with the fat wheezy boys with a note from Matron for this one).....

...I HAVE held a weapon, haven't been to war yet, but I'm only 25 so there's time yet.

Also, I'm fed up with this Gaullic, peacenik assertion that the planners have every primary school and hospital in 'Irak' on the target list. To think this is so, is ludicrous. (Maybe in this conflict there will be less NATO intel passed to the other side than there was in FRY!...)

With all the controversy this war is attracting, don't you think we are going to to all we can to reduce collateral damage?

And maybe, just maybe, the reason those poor people don't have any arms to defend themselves is because SH and the Ba'ath regime has a stranglehold on them and forcing this war on 'Irak'!

PS: Have you served? Or did Daddy pay for your ATPL? Would he pay for mine?

[Baron rouge]

TR, profile button is not everything,

You were not even born that I was flying my Jaguar over hostile territory, strafing and having SAM shot at.

Go and whipe your a... You are just a spoilt brat unable to think by yourself and so easily convinced by your prime minister lies.