When I think of the Foreign Legion, it reminds me the Movie Lionheart - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100029

Plot Summary: Leon Gualtier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arrived in the USA entirely hard up. He found his brother between...

Jean-Claude Van Damme left the Foreign Legion and they couldn't even catch him, then once they did, they were all a bunch of pussies and felt bad for him, so they let him go, hah ha ha ha.

haha, exactly... or my father is stronger than yours!

And then I go to sleep with a smile and feel very proud... like a kid :winkwink:

i can't wait for the rapture.

The French Foreign Legion is actually a pretty cool concept. It allows criminals to start over with a clean slate, and it allows France to go to war without having to send Frenchmen :)

not that I really care but...if the USA didn't win against a small country like Vietnam, do you really think they could invade the whole Europe? We' re talking abour UK, Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Italy etc :winkwink:

Keep on waiting.
I have a feeling we were given up on long ago.

Actually you stand very little chance of getting into the Legion any more with a criminal record.

why are you fighting? half of you will die from heart attack when such war will start and the rest will move to Thailand.

Is that the latest paranoid delusion? That the US is planning on invading Europe?

:glugglug 50

Being a former US MARINE, I take great offense at this.

The United States Marine Corps is - without a doubt - the best and most elite unit of any country. The US Marine Corps is the smallest branch of of the United States Military, yet is larger than the armed forces of most countries - including the UK.

Also.... It's unfair to say that Europe would be speaking German now if it wasn't for the US. Russia went through hell and back during WW2, and lost many more men. The difference is Russia was defending it's own turf, while the US wasn't. The US could have looked the other way.

And at the same time, the US was fighting Japan.

France and Germany combined couldn't take on the US Marine Corps.

Semper Fi! I was in 2/4 as an 0311!

"The United States Marine Corps is - without a doubt - the best and most elite unit of any country."

how can you say that? Action proves theory, till then it's one of the rest.

Even Rome fell

he didn't say USA could not take France and Germany..he said USA could not take *Europe*....which means France, Germany, Russia, UK, Spain, Italy etc. all combined (15 countries)

Rome was a city full of lame asses running around in diapers on horse carts with half baked ideas.... hardly a valid comparison to today's US military machine. :)

indeed

is indeed cousin of Captain Obvious? :glugglug

of course

We just invited them in for a beer. :glugglug

On the contrary. The US war machine is hardly a valid comparison the the Roman Empire. :winkwink:

Don't be so silly.

The French Foreign Legion is one of the toughest armies in the world.

Why?

Because it's soldiers are pretty fucking disposible. That's the whole idea behind it.

So when you say 'smart', you mean religious fanatics? Okay then.

Exactly.

Watching all the patriots on this board talking about American history (conveniently re-written) and military invincibility (how many wars has the US actually won ON IT'S OWN in the last 50 years?) is very amusing.

Who knows? One day, they might actually snap out of their delusional fever.

Actually, 15 countries is only the EU members.

Europe is much larger than that.

And that's not even counting Russia.

And what Rochard said: Everyone agrees the British SAS are better than nearly all othert fighting forces in the world.

US Marines don't even come close to the SAS.

To think otherwise is just silly.

yes.

blah blah blah, all this talk of fighting is rather pointless, as you Europeans can't even compare your own specific countries to the U.S.

You need to compare an ever growing group of nations.

:Graucho

It won't matter until the EU goes from being an economic union (to better compete with the U.S.) to a political one with a central government and European countries reduced to cutural states. (to avoid that feeling of marginalization you have now in the geo-political spectrum).

See you in 50 or so years when this becomes relevant.

And all Europeans have Armies again.
:winkwink:

another flag waving thread..

Why am I replying to this drivel?...

So in other words, it's like a collection of different states that chose to call itself a union?

Now that sounds familiar...

And for your interest, that's how India came into existence.

Obviously I won't know you in 50 years, but I would bet serious money the EU will keep getting stronger for a very long time.

Why?

Because countries are desperate to join. There's much more to be gained by being a member, than not.

And if nothing else, that is some serious fucking tax revenue.

Hmm, what should it be spent on ...

The insecurity in this thread is amazing.

....or Russian
;-)))

Patton rulez!
;-)))

US will never envade Europe...
we don't need more welfare recipients
;-))))

lol at Serge

what about Australia? is it a more possible scenario? :glugglug

How stupid are you? We have NUKES now! You wont see a the US taking over Europe without a couple of Nuke ending the fuckin war. Go play Command & Conquer and STFU!

Let's have a war in the winter in finland. I bet most of US based soldiers would be afraid of woods after that, I'm not even kidding. The good thing is that nobody wants to invade cold and miserable finland. Even the russians decided not to win us in the war some 50 years ago. :)

It's true.

If we were to start criticizing Canada, do you think we would get the same reaction?

What makes Americans so insecure that they constantly need to defend their country in arguments?

If it really is the greatest, you wouldn't need to keep talking about it. It should be obvious for all to see.

If anyone saved europe from the germans it was russia. The brittish and the americans only fought about one third of the german military while russia fought the rest. If it had been the other way around the us/brittish forces wouldnt have had a chance.

Im sure everyone here thinks its great of the us to come here and stop hitler but to say that they "saved" europe is so fucking dumb.

The usa can try to invade all they want, all it would take is for france and russia to point a couple of nukes at your part of the world and you could take all your marines and shove em up your ass.