Comments on: L’expérience d’un Américain travaillant avec l’armée Française

By: Jérôme

Jérôme — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 22:05:00 +0000

Chris the french army wait the us army in africa to show the results of the operations Serval and Barkane.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:52:14 +0000

Hi!
I just wanted to thank you for your account.

I’m a french civilian and I agree that the french army isn’t openly loved/acclaimed/supported by the population.

I believe it may as well come from the fact that the army is clearly separated from people, mainly out of habit.

We are not used to have our country flag hanging besides our doors like you may be (some people have them now but it was mainly in reaction to the terrorists attacks and I’m not sure but I think a lots of them are down now), and we are not taught to find the same kind of pride in our army as you may be.
What I mean is that I think that the difference is mainly that most Americans have grown up surrounded in that pride for your country, while in France we haven’t. I can say that we are proud of our food and culture but the army? It seems so distant…

But I can say that I am quite proud of how well the French soldiers seem to do on the fields, and that I am always impressed when I just happen accross some of them patrolling in my city.

I also think that a lot more civillians will think about our soldiers with how much we see them now (they patrol cities and guard places a lot since the terrorists attacks, because of the Urgency State).

So, I quite liked your article, thank you.

By: A French Guy

A French Guy — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:38:20 +0000

Un grand merci pour cet article touchant pour notre pays, il faut savoir qu’une grande partie des français soutiennent les américains et son prêt a se battre a leur côtés, et pour les Etats-Unis.

By: ju

ju — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 16:05:30 +0000

Ayant servir dans les paras cela me fait plaisir qu’un américain fasse un peu d’éloge sur notre bonne veille armee , n’oublions pas que nous avons des cultures différentes et une mentalité différente de la votre, la France restera et sera a toujours dans nos coeur quoiqu’il en coûte.

By: Spacido

Spacido — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:10:52 +0000

Thank you for this really fascinating article.

That we are of the American, French, English or other army, we fight for our values and our liberties.

The only thing which I regret in France it is that we are especially loved by the civilian population only on July 14th.

We say that the Americans like laughing at us but I do not count the insults, the mockeries or others on behalf of my own people whom I was able to hear(understand) on his own army.

A former(old) of the human piece of information