Papers Please! British Paratroopers Met by French Border Officials at D-Day Reenactment!

[PatMiles]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/06/06/papers-please-british-paratroopers-met-by-french-border-officials-at-d-day-reenactment/

British paratroopers who led an historic reenactment to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French border officials immediately after they touched down Wednesday in a Normandy field.
The visitors reportedly were directed to quickly fold their parachutes and form an orderly queue. They then offered the requested documents and outlined the purpose of their visit to seated French passport control officials as directed, Reuters reports.
Around 320 British, Belgian and U.S. paratroopers took part in the multinational jump to recreate one of the defining the events of June 6, 1944.
“It is something we haven’t experienced before,” Brigadier Mark Berry, the British paratroopers’ commander, told the Sun newspaper.
“But given the royal welcome we have had from every other feature, it seems like a very small price to pay for coming to France,” he cheerily added.




Some 400 British, Belgian, Canadian and US paratroopers take part in a parachute drop to commemorate the contribution of airborne forces on D-Day. as part of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, in Sannerville, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

British citizens no longer have the right to move freely within the European Union and face stricter immigration checks since Brexit.
(Unless you are an illegal alien!)
The British paratroopers – the bulk of whom were supplied by he British Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade – exited three A400M military aircraft over Sannerville, mirroring the airdrop made eight decades earlier out of RAF Dakota aircraft.
Military aircraft from the U.S. and Belgium followed in formation, Reuters reports.



File/In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, U.S. paratroopers fix their static lines before a jump before dawn over Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944, in France. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)

Early on June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones along the Normandy coast.
The paratroopers landed behind German lines, tasked with disrupting German defences, capturing strategic bridges and establishing defensive positions ahead of the five main beach assault waves.

UNGRATEFUL FROGS!

 

[Holliday]

Ungrateful pukes!

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Reminds me of the 101st guy who visited France for the 50th.

Passport control asked him for his papers. Said “didn’t need them last time.”

French customs official says “Impossible sir. You have always needed a passport to visit France. When was it that you came across the border?”

Airborne trooper responds: “June 6, 1944. And I didn’t see a single one of you Frenchman for days after I landed.”

Sirhr

 

[buffalowinter]

Thats normal. Military personnel just don't cross international borders. I always had NATO travel orders, plus we had red diplomatic passports. My team got held up at Logan International to board a flight to France, because the French changed their Visa requirements that week. This was on a Friday night, so no one home at the French embassy. We had NATO travel orders. The airline let us board our flight to LaGuardia where we were to connect to our International flight to France. La Guardia didn't care and we boarded our flight without incident. Did get yelled at by the American Embassy in France for not letting them know we were in country.

One time we arrived at Heathrow in London and one of my guys was carrying his issued Leatherman. Customs inspector got all excited and wanted to confiscate it. I told him that it was US Government Property and we were on NATO travel orders. If he tried to confiscate it I was going to call the embassy. We are technically under the control of the embassy when we arrive in foreign countries. This has caused some problems. During a period of unrest in Honduras, the Ambassador co-opted an in-country A detachment for his personal security detail.

I got to meet the head of security at La Guardia when I went to check two cases of our weapons. They had to be guarded by our guys at all times. He was a great guy and gave us a tour of the Concorde SST. While we were in the aircraft, he got a call from the pilot asking him what he was doing in his airplane. He told the pilot to fuck off, that it was his airplane when it was on the ground. He reminded me of Sipowicz and of his role as chief of security at La Guardia in Die Hard 2.

 

[EddieNFL]

Thats normal. Military personnel just don't cross international borders. I always had NATO travel orders, plus we had red diplomatic passports. My team got held up at Logan International to board a flight to France, because the French changed their Visa requirements that week. This was on a Friday night, so no one home at the French embassy. We had NATO travel orders. The airline let us board our flight to LaGuardia where we were to connect to our International flight to France. La Guardia didn't care and we boarded our flight without incident. Did get yelled at by the American Embassy in France for not letting them know we were in country.

One time we arrived at Heathrow in London and one of my guys was carrying his issued Leatherman. Customs inspector got all excited and wanted to confiscate it. I told him that it was US Government Property and we were on NATO travel orders. If he tried to confiscate it I was going to call the embassy. We are technically under the control of the embassy when we arrive in foreign countries. This has some caused problems. During a period of unrest in Honduras, the Ambassador co-opted an in-country A detachment for his personal security detail.

I got to meet the head of security at La Guardia when I went to check two case of our weapons. They had to be guarded by our guys at all times. He was a great guy and gave us a tour of the Concorde SST. While we were in the aircraft, he got a call from the pilot asking him what he was doing in his airplane. He told the pilot to fuck off, that it was his airplane when it was on the ground. He reminded me of Sipowicz and of his role as chief of security at La Guardia in Die Hard 2.

You’re thinking of Capt Lorenzo. Sipowicz was a detective on NYPD Blue.

 

[EddieNFL]

Did the airborne accept their surrender?

 

[Mr.BR]

Meanwhile

 

[JoshPutman]

@sirhrmechanic

 

[buffalowinter]

You’re thinking of Capt Lorenzo. Sipowicz was a detective on NYPD Blue.

Yes, I meant both roles.

 

[sinister]

I did this leaving Port au Prince Airport in Haiti in 1994. The border official looked through my passport three or four times before just rubber-stamping it and passing me through the departure gate.

 

[Mudburner]

When I got transferred to Urosevac, Kosovo in 2011, the customs guy asked, "KFOR?" and I said, yes, and apologised.

DynCorps issued me a "Get out of jail, free" card.

 

[Darayavaus]

@sirhrmechanic
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A boy was upstairs playing on his computer when his granddad came in the room and sat down on the bed.​

"What are you doing?", asked the granddad. "You're 18 years old and wasting your life! When I was 18 I went to Paris, I went to the Moulin Rouge, drank all night, had my way with the dancers, pissed on the barman and left without paying! Now that is how to have a good time!"

A week later, the grandfather comes to visit again. the boy still in his room, but with a broken arm in plaster, 2 black eyes and missing all his front teeth. "What happened?", he asked.

"Grandfather!", replied the boy. "I did what you did! I went to Paris, went to the Moulin Rouge, drank all night, had my way with the dancers, pissed all over the barman, and they beat the crap out of me!"

"well, hell!" replied the granddad. "Who did you go with?"

"Just some friends, why? Who did you go with?"

"The SS"

 

[sirhrmechanic]

SS jokes offend me.

My grandfather died in one of the SS concentration camps.

He got really loaded on schnapps one night and fell out of the guard tower while on duty… broke his neck.

Sirhr