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Chukles With The French

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Chukles With The French

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Any chuckles with the French ? Military or other wise ?

All this rubbish makes my day.


Hosting the Premier Regiment de Hussards Parachutistes. Good lads. Best kit I have ever seen. When they went out for a run they had the best shoes, vests etc .. it looked like something out of a recruiting video. Their CO was a brilliant bloke. Mega wealthy and had his own vineyard. Brought tons of wine with them. They were shown around London, bit of ballooning etc. Due to some unfortunate comments made to our German guests from 272 Fallschirmjaeger the year before at a company smoker everyone was warned about comments regarding our NATO allies of non-british origin. Best behavior or else. Some of the lads had to nearly bite their tongues in half as there were many, many opportunities for urine taking.

“Ave you ‘ad a jump in France before ?” etc.

Things were doing well until the aircraft – last item of the visit before they went home. All of us at the briefing. RAF giving it “Alpha’s” and “wind” and all that good stuff.

Finally:

“Any questions ?”

A wit from Mortars pipes up:

“What’s the name of the DZ sir ?” [ unmentioned to this point ]

“Uuuummm…..Froghill”

To his due, even the OC had to suppress a chuckle.

Talking to the RAF later, their CO apparently said later “Ze famous wit of ze british tommy eh ?.....” Good bloke.

Dave
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