Does the average Frenchmen have more balls than us?
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So, what I hear you saying is.... there was a surrender, and the French were involved.
Got it.
You will. We haven't been pushed as far as they have yet.
Maybe we have, and we're just not noticing. Or reacting. This protest in France was over a gas tax. Very similar to the ones put in place in California.
I felt most of the brave people in Europe were killed off in two world wars and all that remained were pink pantied Eurofags. Perhaps I was mistaken.
Trump is noticed world wide far more than the elites would like. Mexicans are chanting "Trump was right" against the caravan of traffickers, free stuff army and poor, uneducated and soon to be dependent Dem voters. Brazil just voted in their own version of Trump and most are pretty excited to rid themselves of the Cali type crap that've had to endure for the last number of years. France, they probably figured they screwed up right after the election but I'd venture to guess were hoping for the best. It just had to boil over long enough to finally make its way to the streets.
Side note however, the 18th century French Revolution was not like the Broadway musical and movies portrayed it to be. If you dig deeper into the revolution you'd find the ideals and beliefs of the ones leading it were more much closer in line to the SJW/Antifa nuts than seen in the movies and on the stage. No one wants to go relive that one.
Leading to the quote: “Going to war without the French is like going hunting without your accordion.”
As for leadership, the head of French forces in the Gulf War, aka Sandbox 1.0, was
Also the head of the Franco-Iraq friendship society. He was persona non grata at all strategy meetings for les grosse poches!
Cheers, Sirhr
My Grandfathers plane was shot down in northern France. All he ever said was as a pilot, if you could ever make it to the resistance they would get you home.
No one realizes that if not for the French at Dunkirk the Brits would not have been able to abandon all their shit and escape with their lives and what they couldnt throw away and leave for the Germans.
Perhaps in that recent movie they should have shown the French with their backs up against retreating Brits and their rifles pointing at Germans.
I was stationed in Switzerland for 18 months.....the rigors of service.
On my down time Id go hike the Jura.
I remember at a mountain pass, La Col De LaFaucille, Just before you cross from the south to north side of the range their was a flower pot continually filled with fresh flowers and a French Tricolor and from what little French I could read I knew it was a memorial to a Resistance fighter that had died at that spot killing Germans.
A great place for an ambush and a pretty place to die, glad the fighter was remembered.
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Here found a view of the Jura as I pretty much experienced it from the Swiss side looking north to France....
Col De La Faucille is the low pass between the two ridges. La Dole is to the right and if you read "Achtung Panzer" Guderian was up there looking down on Geneva in the summer of 1940. 48 years later I ate beans cooked on a Coleman stove from where he gloated.
I used to ride my Cannondale mountain bike from the Lake Geneva level to the pass.
There is a road that skirts the Jura about two thirds of the way up on the left. Its an unpaved fire road in 1988. One day, hot summer, I said "Fuck it Im finding the top of this fucking mountain 'cause I have to know what that tower thing is!"
So I humped my bike up to a point where the trail got to steep and stashed it in the woods. Than I just kept walking as long as it was up. Pretty much the line I folloed was the ride from the pass right up the razors edge. The snow fields are summer pasture that are covered with cows and there bells when grassy. The stuff that shows granite is near vertical cliff that heards of little Chamois goats covering it making you wonder how the fuckers stayed on there.
I busted my balls in Tshirt, spandex bike shorts and only one bike water bottle of water but I got to that tower.
Its a memorial to a French air crash that occurred in the early days of flight. Cool as hell.
Started dragging other Marines up there when off duty and we carried a two burner Coleman stove in an alice pack all over that ridge line right and left cooking beans and hot dogs.
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pmclaine (I'm gonna start calling you John) THOSE kinds of stories are the best. You and a number of others here, share experiences such as those. Definitely adds a kick to history. With no erasing whatsoever!
Thanks.
Thanks.
you wore spandex,,, were they pink
Dude huffing and puffing from sunup to sunset I quickly discovered that shammy "taint" pad in bicycle shorts was a fantastic thing.
@ArmyJerry dont be slapping it over my hotness....
Pics are rough, starting to yellow, old 35mm and these are digi snaps of them in the photo album......
Loved this bike...shame they are not made in the USA anymore. Bought this one at the PX in Heidelberg.
Chamoix cliffs
Metal tower at highest peak this photo....On the far right where the ridge becomes a finger leading down to the summer pasture there is a dark circle that is a cave. I have a picture of me in that cave. We walked down that ridge/ Looking at it now it was probably pretty dumb. This view is well to the left of the earlier picture of the Faucille pass. The big ass tower in that picture is part of the ski mountain and its telefrique system.
Couple of Marines having lunch at the base of the air crash memorial. Tower almost looked as if it was made from the remains of the plane....
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There are memorials all over South Korea. One on a mountain near Daejon (IIRC) was very popular. One weekend end my commander, 1stSgt and I decided to hike up. We were all fit (at the time), but it was a fair challenge. About halfway up we stopped for a water break. A little old Korean lady who looked like she had worked the rice paddies since birth hiked past us laughing. 1st Sgt said she didn't know it was difficult.
Yeah, but look at what Arriva does, they do store tons of nuclear waste and even import it. They may be better at recycling it, I don't know, but there is waste and they do store it in large buildings under these hexagon or octagon shaped tiles. France has it's own nuclear nightmare.
The idea to store it in salt mines may not be the best idea either. It fell to shit in Germany or France or somewhere. If water ever gets in there, it fucks it all up. And it will. No telling what that area will look like in a million years, when it's still glowing hot. It's not a permanent solution. But it's one they're embracing here. Hanford, what a mess, it's just leaking tons of shit right through rusted out containment tanks. Right into the ground water. No telling what WA will look like a million years. If they don't clean that place up, but my god, how could you?
The only permanent solution I THINK is putting it in a solar furnace. I think France has a big one. Supposedly can vaporize a drum of waste. Don't know how many drums it can process though. But if it works, they need to be building a shit ton of 'em here.
Some more interesting reading about their neighbors:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/05/british-government-publishes-full-brexit-legal-advice/
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/05/british-government-publishes-full-brexit-legal-advice/
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