Specialist Alpine Battalions

Specialist Alpine Battalions, 27th Battalion de Chasseurs Alpine and French Task Force Tiger Patrol have been a significant asset in fighting in Afghanistan's high altitude battlefields. There are 3,500 or 3,300 French soldiers in Afghanistan ( depending on which report you read ) 82 soldiers have died in incidents in Afghanistan since 2001, and three quarters of French people want the soldiers to leave. Last year England had 9,500 soldiers there and there have been 414 deaths