IceFire 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Ok, with all the recent talk recently about different military organizations I have been doing some research on them anyhow. I managed to find a really interesting French Foreign Legion site. It's mostly a photo album of the French Foreign Legion. They are color and taken recently as these seem to be VERY modern looking soldiers. Anyhow there is this one picture of this guy with weird flakes on his face. Is this a disease, or camoflauge, or just something growing on his face after spending too much time out in the jungle. http://membres.lycos.fr/viriatorix/ Click on photos, it's the beret right UNDER the word photos. You will see a bunch of photo categories scrolling along the top of this page.(Note the photograph of the legionnares marching carrying donkeys on their backs on the this page) Click training. Â It has a picture of Legionnaires rappeling up a cliff during some commando training. Click "next" 4 times over to see the pic I am talking about. Anyways, this is a pretty cool photo site about the French Foreign Legion. Â It claims to have 1,200 pics on the Legion. Figured some of you might find this interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bn880 5 Posted April 3, 2003 Very good site, thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crewcutkid 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Looks like mud to me. Red flakes, though? No Jungle rot? Nope. -Crew Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc1011 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Great site, I was watching a documentary the other day on these guys. Pretty serious bunch of guys, group of "mercenaries" for the french gouvernment, I can't remeber what station it was on but it was really good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Frag 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Is it just me, or is this guy using a crossbow? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Col. Kurtz 0 Posted April 3, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ April 03 2003,16:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is it just me, or is this guy using a crossbow?<span id='postcolor'> He does indeed appear to have a crossbow, nice and silent. Not as a crazy as a picture in a book on Special Forces I saw. It has Polish Special Forces training with tomahawks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Frag 0 Posted April 3, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Col. Kurtz @ April 02 2003,21:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ April 03 2003,16:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is it just me, or is this guy using a crossbow?<span id='postcolor'> He does indeed appear to have a crossbow, nice and silent. Not as a crazy as a picture in a book on Special Forces I saw. It has Polish Special Forces training with tomahawks <span id='postcolor'> I wonder if they brought them to Iraq. Polish Special Forces are fighting alongside US Navy SEALs in Iraq. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FSPilot 0 Posted April 3, 2003 It's edited, and probably just mud. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Col. Kurtz 0 Posted April 3, 2003 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ April 03 2003,16:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Col. Kurtz @ April 02 2003,21:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ April 03 2003,16:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is it just me, or is this guy using a crossbow?<span id='postcolor'> He does indeed appear to have a crossbow, nice and silent. Not as a crazy as a picture in a book on Special Forces I saw. It has Polish Special Forces training with tomahawks <span id='postcolor'> I wonder if they brought them to Iraq. Polish Special Forces are fighting alongside US Navy SEALs in Iraq.<span id='postcolor'> Maybe, but this book was written in the days of the USSR when Poland was part of the Warsaw pact so their training, tactics and equiptment might have changed to a slight degree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedyDonkey 0 Posted April 3, 2003 I find this to be the strangest part of the website (under catalouge) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ran 0 Posted April 3, 2003 good god ... how much of these did we bet , play and fought for in the local bars in Djibouti .... hehehe ahhhhh souvenirs souvenirs ...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Die Alive 0 Posted April 3, 2003 7--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (SpeedyDonkey @ April 03 2003,067)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I find this to be the strangest part of the website (under catalouge) <span id='postcolor'> LoL, that would make a good sig pic for you.... It looks like a stuff toy animal you win at a carnival or something. -=Die Alive=- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceFire 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Yeah, I thought that was interesting. Legionnaires carry donkeys on their backs during training! Unbelievable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
