Posted on 09/11/2019 11:36:51 AM PDT by Renkluaf
A reader who, in this day of blacklists, must remain anonymous, sends this observation about our soldiers in Afghanistan:
It's not unusual for the French to comment on anything American and normally in the negative. What is rare is a Frenchman saying something positive about Americans; in this case heaping praise on our soldiers in Afghanistan. Blogger and veteran Wes O'Donnell has translated an editorial in a French newspaper from a French soldier serving with a prestigious U.S. infantry battalion. I recommend reading the whole thing. Here are some excerpts:
US soldiers are in top physical shape compared to the French, and it appears much better in infantry tactics. The soldier notes:
Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins, and creatine — they are all heads and shoulders taller than us and their muscles remind us of Rambo. Our frames are amusingly skinny to them — we are wimps, even the strongest of us — and because of that they often mistake us [the French] for Afghans. [snip] Even if some of them are a bit on the heavy side, all of them provide us everyday with lessons in infantry know-how. Beyond the wearing of a combat kit that never seems to discomfort them (helmet strap, helmet, combat goggles, rifles etc.) the long hours of watch at the outpost never seem to annoy them in the slightest.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Agree!
If you read about WWI many examples (particularly in the beginning!) of crazy crazy brave French soldiers.
Wasn’t that Audie Murphy?
Right but even in the depression, Americans fared much better than people elsewhere on the planet.
It’s the lesson that people all over the world should never forget:
What is good for the US, is good for the rest of the world... what is bad for the US is unbearable for the rest of the world.
Yes, indeed!
;^)
The Japanese bath house back in the day. where you shower first, then get into really hot water and soak awhile, and get out totally refreshed.
Another thing about the Japanese that got our respect. We’d pull into our shipyard after thirty days or more on the line. The shipyard workers were dressed in ragged old army uniforms. We saw they were cold, ragged and hungry. And yet with a whole shipyard full of things to slip away with,and sell they were too proud to steal.That got our attention and admiration.
And yet with a whole shipyard full of things to slip away with,and sell they were too proud to steal.
= = = = = = = = =
I remember our first ‘briefing’ and being told to avoid the vegetables, (found out cheap whiskey cure to that), Japanese still believed in removing the part of the anatomy that ‘committed a crime’ etc etc..
Had some great liberties in Westpac, a hell of an ‘awakening’ for an 17/18 year old in 1957 that had led a somewhat ‘sheltered life’.
Made two more trips on the APA then got a transfer to an LST to be homeported in Yokosuka in 1960-62....
(almost) made a lifetime out of 5 years....
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