[quidnunc]

LouD wrote: But - I would take exception to his comment regarding le Legion Etangere, however tongue in cheek. Whatever the shortcomings of the French (and they are many) the Legion is a fine fighting organization (maybe because it is made up of non-frogs) with a history of gallantry.

And how do we know; what evidence have we seen that this is still true today?

They certainly didn't show us much in Desert Storm I or Somalia.

While they're good at strutting along in that 'slow march' of theirs, I haven't seen any proof of their fighting prowess during my lifetime — outside of the movies.

[LouD]

quidnunc wrote: While they're good at strutting along in that 'slow march' of theirs, I haven't seen any proof of their fighting prowess during my lifetime — outside of the movies.

Maybe I just read too much Jean Larteguy at an impressionable age, or maybe it was the nights I spent drinking with Legionnaires in Marseilles...