Re: [FH] What do you call in Drop Troops the NSL

--- Christopher Downes-Ward
<Christopher_Downes-Ward@acuma.co.uk> wrote:

> Raumjager (German)
> Infanterie Aerospatiale (French)
> 
> Can anyone generate something better?

Noting that the Drop Troops have more or less
supplanted conventional Airborne, there may be
colloquial terms that are different, but the
'official' titles will probably be Fallschirmjaeger
and Regiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine
respectively.  (or simply RPI for those regiments not
Marine).  Or Regiment Etranger Parachutiste
d'Infanterie for those regiments that know what end of
their weapons get hot.

Side Note 1: Marine, in French usage, does not refer
to naval infantry, but to volunteer troops intended
for colonial service after 1958 when it became illegal
to deploy conscripts outside of Metropolitan France.

Side Note 2: I find a Commando force deployed to
Desert Storm from the French Army entitled the
Commandos de Recherche et d'Action dans la Profondeur.

It's official.	The French Army deploys CRAP.

I'm not making this up, and I don't think I could. 
Havn't got that much imagination.

John

	
		
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