Thanks US marines!

[Brenus]

"I am sure you aren't liar but I am calling you one anyway just for the pics" ? I miss something, sorry...

[Kadagar_AV]

"I am sure you aren't liar but I am calling you one anyway just for the pics" ? I miss something, sorry...

He means he want to see pics, which IMHO would be unwise.

I PMed you, if I am in error we can sort it.

[Brenus]

It is all right. I was young then As I said in my answer to you, YEARS I wait for some to be interested in my pictures

Jump they said.

I am in the group. 1st experience in military life, I was 18

Insigna of the Infantery Combat School of Montpellier (rough translation) for NCO

Probably my second or 3 weeks. I am the one with the light machine gun, AA52, 7.5 mm, then 7,62 mn NATO renamed ANF1. We were still 32 in the platoon.

Me. With the sun in the eyes. Equipped with the sub-machine gun MAT 49, same weapon than my father had in Indochina (same type that is)

Parade, with the new FAMAS, Brilliant weapons. We were around 20 at that time.

Platoon before training (obstacle) I am at the left, last one.

Insigna of my NCO promotion; 67 Adjudant ARPIN, ESOA (not to mix with ENSOA which is other school multi-arms mixed) I was pure grunt.

Parade of the 10th Company, 4th platoon, spec in Mechanised Infantery combat. I then specialised in MILAN missile, but went back in Mechanised Infantery.

Commando Training. I choose a picture, because the actual insigna was stolen by a cousin, long time ago, I bought another one, but it is not the same.

Me. In front of the ladder of the Giants.
The 1 Commando Training Centre is divided in 2 site: Colioure in a former Templar fortress for the sea, sun and no sex activities




These pictures are not with me on it. I was teken in pictures by turists (Colioure is a tursistic town), but, first I would have spit on them if I would have some saliva left (and breath), two, they didn't gave me the pictures
Same comment.

2nd part: Montlouis: Vauban Fortress, as the design shows. Mountain Combat and final raid.
We were 17 left, 15 fit for the training, 5 got the medal, and I was one of them.

153 Infantry Regiment, 11th Company (instruction for the new drafties, 2 months of basis training).
Ok, have to go, wife insist I clean the bath room, family coming from Canad to visit for 2 weeks.
To be continued

[CrossLOPER]

To have completed the entire Call of Duty series is not having completed your Tour of Duty.

Best sentence I have read on this site in years.

[Kadagar_AV]

Brenus, I've never been too small a character to admit I was wrong...

Not that you have proven anything yet, but it look like your training was hardcore (I know a thing or two of what it takes to get into that regiment, and what it takes to stay).

[Vuk]

Best sentence I have read on this site in years.

Not so pointed though when he directs it at someone who has never played CoD. It kind of loses some of its bite.

[Gilrandir]

Not that you have proven anything

This. Might as well be someone else's picture, if we continue playing distrust's advocate.

[Beskar]

This. Might as well be someone else's picture, if we continue playing distrust's advocate.

I think it is safe to say Brenus is telling the truth about his experiences. I want to save Kadagar the trouble of providing copies of the passports of his chain of international admirers with a letter saying he had a consensual arrangement with them 'for proof'.

[Myth]

I'm just happy that people didn't get massacred with an AK. It takes guts to attack someone armed like that. Cudos! Although I was SURE they weren't marines even before I read the article lol.

The closest thing I've had like this is stanging up to a drunk fat hunter who barged into our cabin while celebrating. Was with school mates, partying for prom (we do a lot of that here). He walked in with a loaded dobule-barreled shotgun, apparently with teh genius idea of scaring some kids and showing off.

I'm usually afraid to pick a fight but then I guess I was simply too stupid or too angry, I walked up to him, grabbed the gun and shoved it away from us, making it point at the wall, and I stood right in his face.

As the situation was defused by the girls, we calmed down adn he even let me fire it outside. It is not a memeory I'm particularly proud of, someone could have died ffs.

[Papewaio]

I think it is safe to say Brenus is telling the truth about his experiences. I want to save Kadagar the trouble of providing copies of the passports of his chain of international admirers with a letter saying he had a consensual arrangement with them 'for proof'.

No no we insist on equal treatment... Photos ...

/joking no NSFW or kiss and tell

[Fragony]

Family-anacdote. My very intelligent sister calls my mother extreme right because she doesn't believe the guy on his word that he just wanted to rob the place. Her housekeeper is from Marocco and would never do that. Granted she wouldn't she's a sweetheart. But Geez allmighty on a motherffing plane. She is pregnant so she might be a bit unstable at the moment. Me and my mum were a bit errrrr can't you add things up

[Brenus]

No way we will escape the pictures... As I said, AGES I waited for someone to be interested.

The Regimental Flag. In term of French Army, the 153 Rgt is new as it was created by Napoleon.

Tp answer the question, I had the choice to go there because I was the 5th in the result list. The Army says the first choose, the others are chosen. If you join the Legion, you go for the common training center. You don't join directly the 13 DBLE or the 1 REC or the 2 REP.
Little bit different if you join the Regular, you can join the 6 RPIMA, but I joined directly for the NCO training.


Me. Summer Uniform.


1st Squad.


APC Commander


APC. AMX 13 VTT, 1 X 20 mm cannon, 10 men (1 pilot, 1 radio-Gunner, 8 grunts, including me)


New Training, Mountain and winter


Me. On ski, Well... Errr...





And training again

[Brenus]

For the ones interrested in military: 1st Squad: Equipment is MAS 49, MAS 49/56 both 7.5 mm) for the riffle, Light Machine gun is ANF 1, 7.62 mm NATO), sub-machine gun in MAT 49, (9 mm), sniper riffle is FrF1 in 7.5 mm -specially designed one), LRAC 98 mm (Anti-tank Rocket launcher).

The squad is divider in few cells:
4 men (voltigeurs)
Chief of Squad with Snipper
2 men (LMG/Anti-tank weapon) depending objective.
Gunner & pilot in APC,

With the platoon goes by food, the 3 APC go under the command of the Senior NGO and are in charge of fire support for the platoon (3x 20 mm cannon).

Kadagar, pictures from Bosnia will come...

[Fragony]

Heh you look way too French to win the war, you will win the girls though

[Montmorency]

Family-anacdote. My very intelligent sister calls my mother extreme right because she doesn't believe the guy on his word that he just wanted to rob the place. Her housekeeper is from Marocco and would never do that. Granted she wouldn't she's a sweetheart. But Geez allmighty on a motherffing plane. She is pregnant so she might be a bit unstable at the moment. Me and my mum were a bit errrrr can't you add things up

I couldn't quite follow this comment, so I read it again less carefully.

But then who exactly got pregnant, your mother or your sister?

[Husar]

As I said, AGES I waited for someone to be interested.

I've been waiting for AGES for you to offer to show pictures.

I couldn't quite follow this comment, so I read it again less carefully.

But then who exactly did you get pregnant, your mother or your sister?

He says:
- His mother does not believe the shooter on the train just wanted to rob it
- His sister thinks that makes her mother extreme right
- His mother has a housekeeper from Marocco, who for some strange reason seems very lovely and is not a terrorist (yet).
- He is sick of the pinko librauls believing what the terrorist claims being on his mothereffering plane (I assume the plane is earth).
- His sister is pregnant and that may make her mentally unstable.
- Fragony and his mom think that Fragony's sister is stupid (probably due to the pregnancy).

Why Fragony's sister is pregnant is a mystery, but it was most likely not the Moroccan housekeeper because she is a really sweet soul.

[Fragony]

original post deleted out of courtisy as the original doesn't exist anymore.

[Montmorency]

You are free to take offence. I think most here understand that my views are much more nuanced than they sometimes can look like. I like to be sarcastic just as much as people like to be politically correct. It never gotten me a warning from Beskar so it's all in the comfort-zone

[Beskar]

The nice side of internet, you aren't digesting your teeth right now. Have some manners that is pretty insulting.

His joke was, he struggled to make sense of it. So he read it less carefully (instead of more), which resulted in an even worse reading of your post. Silly, yes. He didn't need to do "you get"

So was self-mockery in someways but criticising how it was wrote too.

[Fragony]

*snip*

[rvg]

I think it crosses the line but you are in charge. Someone certainly wouldn't get away with it when saying that in my face

Yeah, I'd be outraged as well, but for me half of the posts in this thread begin with "This message is hidden because ... is on your ignore list".

[Husar]

I think it crosses the line but you are in charge. Someone certainly wouldn't get away with it when saying that in my face

Can you explain why exactly such a joke is over the line?

To me taking this seriously sounds like something a middle easterner who believes in tribal honor would do and it is not one of their behaviors I approve of. I thought we're all friends and friends should accept such "offensive" jokes?

[Montmorency]

something a middle easterner who believes in tribal honor would do

RVG?

[AE Bravo]

Why don't you approve? There's nothing tribal about it.

Just curious, I'd be pissed and not just as an Arab.

[Fragony]

Can you explain why exactly such a joke is over the line?

To me taking this seriously sounds like something a middle easterner who believes in tribal honor would do and it is not one of their behaviors I approve of. I thought we're all friends and friends should accept such "offensive" jokes?

Harmless jokes you make to people you like, people you dislike you insult.

[Husar]

Why don't you approve? There's nothing tribal about it.

Just curious, I'd be pissed and not just as an Arab.

Because it was obviously a joke and not a serious comment, and only people who take such things overly serious would just look past the joke and take offense as though it were a serious statement. In my experience that is mostly true for people who take such offenses way too seriously anyway, and in my limited experience that usually happens around the mediterranean or with angry russians, very religious people and so on. And none of these things seem to apply to Fragony.

If it were a serious statement, I would see where the insult is, but it was a joke about his writing style.
And quite frankly, even when serious, as long as everybody knows it's not true, where's the actual harm done?
A Turkish or Middle Eastern guy once called me a dog to insult me but it quite frankly didn't bother me in the slightest, everybody can see that I'm not actually a dog, why would that bother me? And a lot of people love dogs anyway... (I know where it's coming from, but he said it in Germany) It was just a desperate attempt at hurting me that completely failed.

[Montmorency]

Harmless jokes you make to people you like, people you dislike you insult.

That's dumb. You're dumb.

(Don't worry, I take your displeasure seriously.)

[Fragony]

(Don't worry, I take your displeasure seriously.)

I can do with that

[Brenus]

Me again,


Concentration Camp, built by the Nazi in Alsace for families of the Alsatians tempted to avoid to join the Wehrmacht or the SS.


Parade to commemorate the liberation of the camp Struthof-Natzwiler
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ca...FSaM2wodvEAH8A


Note than the weapons are now FAMAS. In the 80's french army start a very needed modernisation.


Maneuvers in open lands.



Back on the train.


New weapons & new platoon/squad.
Me, 1st voltigeur & sniper


Parade. Winter Uniform Summer Uniform


Last pictures before leaving the Army.


The regiment is now a Motorised Infantry Regiment. The 6th Armoured Division is no more, and we are now in a (don't remember the number) Infantry Division equipped with VAB.




End of 5 years of soldiering.... For various reasons

Right. Name on the last picture. Not that I mind...

[Fragony]

Awesome pics