French Infantryman on his American Counterparts in AFghanistan

Posted By Blackfive

We first received an email about this posting on Wednesday.  Since then, I've gotten emails every day about it.  So, here it is:

“We have shared our daily life with two US units for quite a while - they are the first and fourth companies of a prestigious infantry battalion whose name I will withhold for the sake of military secrecy. To the common man it is a unit just like any other. But we live with them and got to know them, and we henceforth know that we have the honor to live with one of the most renowned units of the US Army - one that the movies brought to the public as series showing “ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary events”. Who are they, those soldiers from abroad, how is their daily life, and what support do they bring to the men of our OMLT every day ? Few of them belong to the Easy Company, the one the TV series focuses on. This one nowadays is named Echo Company, and it has become the support company.

They have a terribly strong American accent - from our point of view the language they speak is not even English. How many times did I have to write down what I wanted to say rather than waste precious minutes trying various pronunciations of a seemingly common word? Whatever state they are from, no two accents are alike and they even admit that in some crisis situations they have difficulties understanding each other.

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 for Afghans...

The rest is here.

Translated from this site here.  One of the only French milblogs that I know of.

The unit he talks about is E Company, 1-506th Infantry, 4th Combat Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.  It is the same unit that the Band of Brothers mini-series is about and that unit has legends that every single paratrooper tries to live to up to every day they are in the Army.

Sounds like these guys are no different.

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French Infantryman on his American Counterparts in AFghanistan

We first received an email about this posting on Wednesday.  Since then, I've gotten emails every day about it.  So, here it is:

“We have shared our daily life with two US units for quite a while - they are the first and fourth companies of a prestigious infantry battalion whose name I will withhold for the sake of military secrecy. To the common man it is a unit just like any other. But we live with them and got to know them, and we henceforth know that we have the honor to live with one of the most renowned units of the US Army - one that the movies brought to the public as series showing “ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary events”. Who are they, those soldiers from abroad, how is their daily life, and what support do they bring to the men of our OMLT every day ? Few of them belong to the Easy Company, the one the TV series focuses on. This one nowadays is named Echo Company, and it has become the support company.

They have a terribly strong American accent - from our point of view the language they speak is not even English. How many times did I have to write down what I wanted to say rather than waste precious minutes trying various pronunciations of a seemingly common word? Whatever state they are from, no two accents are alike and they even admit that in some crisis situations they have difficulties understanding each other.

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 for Afghans...

The rest is here.

Translated from this site here.  One of the only French milblogs that I know of.

The unit he talks about is E Company, 1-506th Infantry, 4th Combat Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.  It is the same unit that the Band of Brothers mini-series is about and that unit has legends that every single paratrooper tries to live to up to every day they are in the Army.

Sounds like these guys are no different.

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