A French air force general has made history by becoming the first non-American to assume a supreme command post in NATO.
At a ceremony on Wednesday, aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower moored off Norfolk, Virginia, Stephane Abrial became the Head of Allied Command Transformation, replacing outgoing US marine general James Mattis.
Abrial is the first non-American to hold one of NATO's two supreme allied commander posts.
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...and in other news he subsequently was highly embarrassed that he could no longer surrender to the Warsaw Pact.Flesh Thorn wrote:A French air force general has made history by becoming the first non-American to assume a supreme command post in NATO.
At a ceremony on Wednesday, aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower moored off Norfolk, Virginia, Stephane Abrial became the Head of Allied Command Transformation, replacing outgoing US marine general James Mattis.
Abrial is the first non-American to hold one of NATO's two supreme allied commander posts.
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Now doesn't that just sound like NATO!!
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Here's the new NATO flag:
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A Frenchie? How is the NATO Commander chosen?
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Ranger Bill wrote:A Frenchie? How is the NATO Commander chosen?
In all seriousness, the French have been showing lately that they are in this game to win. While I like bashing Frenchmen with the best of them, they do have skin in the game.
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WTF, over !!!??
The French know only TWO military tactics........
Retreat and / or surrender !
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This is going to be interesting. I would like to hear what our boots on the ground have to say after one month of him being in country.
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3 words, Dien Bien Phu or is that 1?
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