In the old days, intimidating bayonets and flashy uniforms won half the battle, but since the advent of modern warfare, France has consistently had the least reliable weapons, the most idiotic tactics, and some of the best looking dress uniforms. The only regular aversion to those traits aren't even really French.
A friend of mine is an officer in the French army and each time he's been working with British or American teams, he was indeed blown away by their equipments (I agree on that point : French equipment sucks). But on the other side, my friend told me American soldiers seem to appreciate working with Frenchies because they do have good tactics, they are reliable and they use much more diplomacy in tensed situations (Americans tactics are more aggresive). Once, I was playing Arma and there was this bullshit conversation about French army. An American player -who used to be in the US Army- was then extremely pissed off and explained how underrated is the French army, for it saved his ass and his fellows' a couple of times. Just sayin'...
I'll be perfectly happy and respectful to whoever pulls my ass out of the fire, but I won't be happy if the French are the only ones I get sent into the fire with.
I've got friends in in the Marines, along with Airborne and a former Ranger coaching me since I decided to sign my ass up, and while they respect all of our NATO allies (but not UN, this cannot be stressed enough), the French are pretty low on that list.
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Wait. You are signing up? For what? Marines, Airforce? Anyway. It's really good to hear. Hope you make it. It's an honour to know any soldier from any country.
U.S. Army. Combat medic. Thanks for the support.
I don't hate the French, I just put a lot of weight in the words of the guys I know who've been in combat before.
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We started to improve our equipment. So there's that
Well you see my good sir, French was originally latin
Since people sucked at latin they deformed it
At one point, there was something called Old French. I looked like French except back then there weren't really any rules. Also every letter was pronounced, there were no silent letters. I.e. the "e","s",, etc. at the end of words were all pronounced. Except this was a burden to speak so people began taking away letters when speaking, but those who knew how to write still wrote words with every letters. That's how French ended up being pronounced widely differently than how it's written.
tl;dr : lazy people shortened words when speaking but people who wrote still wrote them completely
I've got friends in in the Marines, along with Airborne and a former Ranger coaching me since I decided to sign my ass up, and while they respect all of our NATO allies (but not UN, this cannot be stressed enough), the French are pretty low on that list.
I don't hate the French, I just put a lot of weight in the words of the guys I know who've been in combat before.
*is proud*
Since people sucked at latin they deformed it
At one point, there was something called Old French. I looked like French except back then there weren't really any rules. Also every letter was pronounced, there were no silent letters. I.e. the "e","s",, etc. at the end of words were all pronounced. Except this was a burden to speak so people began taking away letters when speaking, but those who knew how to write still wrote words with every letters. That's how French ended up being pronounced widely differently than how it's written.
tl;dr : lazy people shortened words when speaking but people who wrote still wrote them completely