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

More here :

http://www.frenchforeignlegion.org/database/data/dta049.html

I also found some useful info' on the colour of the FFL's Kepis which 
will come in useful when painting up my FSE legionnaires.

Tony

John Atkinson wrote:

>--- Christopher Downes-Ward
><Christopher_Downes-Ward@acuma.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Raumjager (German)
>>Infanterie Aerospatiale (French)
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>>Can anyone generate something better?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>It's official.  The French Army deploys CRAP.
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>I'm not making this up, and I don't think I could. 
>Havn't got that much imagination.
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>John
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