Re: USMC and French Foreign Legion in Afghanistan
Please don't mistake the Legion for being French...
The may speak french, wear french uniforms, but they will always be the French "Outcast" military unit, wich the french can use in missions were casualties may occur, no need to cry tears over a none french soldier getting killed or wounded in a battle in wich the french people is not interrested in..
I personally have had the chance to have a buddy on one of my tours in Bosnia, a former Legionare of 2.éme REP who stoped his service after an accident in wich he had the oppotunety to stop as active and become desk soldier or leave for good, he choose last, and joined Danish army... Learned a shitload of stuff from him, and we ended up saving each others asses in some occations after that...
I respect him as one of the most proffesionals I ever laid my eyes on.. Of cause some are crazy, but aren't we all...