Tuesday 9 September 2014

Flying green jumbos passed by.

Green flying elephants full of the enemy, or soldiers pretending to be the enemy passed today in the skies. These huge khaki transport planes flew over low so we knew some exercise or other was happening. Tonight on Midi Pyrenees news (nothing about the film) but quite a lot about the mixed nationality troops parachuting in to the military grounds at Caylus and then simulating an attack against the  soldiers playing terrorists.
It must be a bit like paint balling firing blanks at your comrades. I expected to see them splashed in multi colours. I can see why some young men are attracted to joining the army, it does look quite an adventure I suppose ... until you drop in to the real thing.
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