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Originally Posted by Infiltrator

French and Yanks share the airfield (Ambouli) and every Sunday morning at around 0800 the Americans play the Star Spangled Banner over their Giant Voice system. Just as the first bars start playing the French Mirages based on the other side, go into full reheat and burn down the runway so that it completely drowns out the music, they stagger a couple of jets so that the anthem is drowned out for its entirety. Feckin class it is!

There is nothing funnier than how childish co-located militaries can get. Brilliant.

Originally Posted by Infiltrator

French and Yanks share the airfield (Ambouli) and every Sunday morning at around 0800 the Americans play the Star Spangled Banner over their Giant Voice system. Just as the first bars start playing the French Mirages based on the other side, go into full reheat and burn down the runway so that it completely drowns out the music, they stagger a couple of jets so that the anthem is drowned out for its entirety. Feckin class it is!

They deserve each other.

Originally Posted by jimmys_best_mate

There is nothing funnier than how childish co-located militaries can get. Brilliant.

The first time I saw it, there were hundrends of US Marines all stood to attention all over the place turned to the flag and saluting and getting more and more pissed off at not being able to hear anything but the sound of blistering air and feeling the ground shake as the Frogs blasted off a couple of hundred yards away. When the US Admiral complained and asked the French to move their sortie times, the French replied that they were their first and that they always took off at that time and perhaps the US should move its timing instead!

The Frogs absolutely must have someone listening for the music to start as it's to the moment. Very impressive timings. Very naffed off Americans wondering why the Brits are pissing themselves.

Originally Posted by jimmys_best_mate

There is nothing funnier than how childish co-located militaries can get. Brilliant.

For further information - see Greenham Common circa 1982.I'm very very sorry.Truly I am.That is all.

Originally Posted by Infiltrator

Anti Wah hat on...Djibouti, Horn of Africa. Fecking god forsaken place. Ex French colony, still lots of French Army, Air Force and Foreign Legion cutting about the place in very tight, short, shorts.

Spams have a unit there, ex French army, Camp Le Monier, or Camp Lemonier as the yanks call it.

French and Yanks share the airfield (Ambouli) and every Sunday morning at around 0800 the Americans play the Star Spangled Banner over their Giant Voice system. Just as the first bars start playing the French Mirages based on the other side, go into full reheat and burn down the runway so that it completely drowns out the music, they stagger a couple of jets so that the anthem is drowned out for its entirety. Feckin class it is!

Thanks Infiltrator,

It was a genuine quetion on my part - I've never worked in the Horn of Africa. Interesting phots and info.

Originally Posted by Oyibo

Thanks Infiltrator,

It was a genuine quetion on my part - I've never worked in the Horn of Africa. Interesting phots and info.

In all honesty, you haven't missed anything, unless you are after Somali and Ethiopian prostitutes in all the bars! During my visits, we often heard of another American being returned to CONUS as they had contracted HIV down the town.

To be fair, some of them were very pretty girls (in that Iman sort of way), but bearing in mind that this is sub Saharan Africa, you'd be mad to dip your wick. Not that they didn't know which buttons to push mind you.....but I guess that's why the weak willed got sent home to die!

The rest of the place? Well, you could certainly see that the French had made it very nice during their rule, but not a penny had been spent on the infrastructure since independence.

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

For further information - see Greenham Common circa 1982.I'm very very sorry.Truly I am.That is all.

Spill the story then.

Originally Posted by Infiltrator

In all honesty, you haven't missed anything, unless you are after Somali and Ethiopian prostitutes in all the bars! During my visits, we often heard of another American being returned to CONUS as they had contracted HIV down the town.

To be fair, some of them were very pretty girls (in that Iman sort of way), but bearing in mind that this is sub Saharan Africa, you'd be mad to dip your wick. Not that they didn't know which buttons to push mind you.....but I guess that's why the weak willed got sent home to die!

The rest of the place? Well, you could certainly see that the French had made it very nice during their rule, but not a penny had been spent on the infrastructure since independence.

Sad to say, but I have seen that in a number of former French colonies. As well as that, the French tend to maintain military outposts in those former colonies. Yes, we (the Brits) go to places like Kenya, but we don't have bombed-up patrols down the streets.

Oh well...