A French soldier's view of US soldiers in Afghanistan

American Thinker ^ | 9/9/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[Renkluaf]

Doesn't really need a comment.

[Steely Tom]

Pretty amazing. I hope the guy who wrote that doesn’t get in trouble.

May God bless our soldiers.

[Renkluaf]

Yeah, that was my thought as well.

[madison10]

Brave to the core.

[max americana]

so no WW2 jokes from our guys about Hitler in Paris?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Effin A!

[SMARTY]

I remember reading that during the second WW, Europeans were aghast at the appearance of Americans.

I’m pretty sure it’s a nutrition thing. Americans were/are heavier built, stronger and more developed... AND taller

There is a window of development for that stuff and if nutrition is poor during formative years... you can’t ‘catch up’ later.

One European said ‘We couldn’t believe how tall and big all of them were...’

[max americana]

There was an FR article back in 2004 about a Spanish journalist who was embedded with our troops for 10 days, and he had some anti-US leanings due to the Iraq War. After they protected him so many times, he became pro-US as the soldiers in that company became his best friends even after the war..

[Alberta's Child]

I guy I know who saw action in several military campaigns once told me that Belgium (surprisingly!) has the best soldiers of all the NATO countries. What he found most impressive about their soldiers was that they had very little "specialization" among them, and they were all trained to deal with almost any situation that came up in the field: infantry operations, sniper ops, fixing a Humvee that broke down in a convoy, translating in X different languages, etc. It seemed like they never had to call someone else to a situation to deal with something that was beyond their capabilities on the spot.

For whatever that's worth ...

[Midwesterner53]

Thank you young man. God bless you and may you be safe and happy.

[rlmorel]

I seem to remember this from years ago!

[Starstruck]

Obama tried to take that quick response away from our military with a buffer of lawyers.As an aside, after my military service I spent 45 years in engineering. We worked with companies from many countries. What made us more effective was the ability to make decisions individually while they would have to form a committee to make the decision. It would sometimes take weeks. If we were individually wrong, it usually didn’t take weeks to correct the problem.

[Tucker39]

When VietNam fell, my church adopted a SVN refugee couple with a small son and daughter. All 4 accepted Christ and learned English. Those kids became instant Americans. And how they grew and filled out. The boy became a husky 6 footer, Bible college grad teaching school. The girl blossomed into a gorgeous woman, with Hooters never ever seen on a native in Saigon. I can only credit the Lord and American groceries with how those kids turned out.

[dfwgator]

I have no problem with the Vietnamese that came here. The vast majority are an asset to this country.

[notdownwidems]

I have no problem with the Vietnamese that came here. The vast majority are an asset to this country.

I agree, I have a friend from Vietnam (came to the U.S. in 1975, boat people) and he is top notch! Tall too for a Vietnamese, maybe 5'10"

[MichaelRDanger]

This?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/05/embedded_journalists_won_over.html

[L,TOWM]

The Belgian Air Assault Regiment has had the reputation since the ‘60’s as being one of the most capable SF outfits in the World. They learned a lot of hard lessons in the Congo jungle...

[Reily]

Yes and I believe I have read that there is no evidence its real! Meaning that it comes from a French soldier!

[JOHN ADAMS]

Guys — it’s not just the American diet of hamburgers and milkshakes.

Several times a month I play back in my head the magnificent tribute by a Marine general to two Marines who sacrificed their lives while preventing a terrorist from blowing up a barracks and killing several hundred Marines and Iraqi soldiers working with them. I know most people on this board are familiar with General Kelly’s speech, but I think about it a lot and it’s worth repeating:

The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.

The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God.

“They never even shifted their weight.” This is what the French soldier was talking about.

https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kellys-speech-truck-bomb-2017-4

[dfwgator]

Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins, and creatine

Thank you Dr. Cade.