Well, I'm sure presence of soil and new condition will raise the hackles and harumps of "well, of course it's French: never fired and only thrown down once."
We wait with bated breath for pics of the Lady.
Mike
Worked with French Foreign Legion in Afghanistan, good guys (they were Frenchmen mostly).
The French haven't hesitated about intervening in their former colonies in Africa (and even some other places, like the former Belgian Congo) when necessary. Back in 1978, they dropped a Legion parachute regiment into Zaire to settle a little unpleasantness. Likewise provided support in Chad when Libya was trying to annex part of that country's north. My favorite story was about the Legion unit that was right next to a Chadian Army compound when Qadhafi launched an air raid. Legion guys went over the wall, "borrowed" the AA weapons from the Chadians, shot down a couple planes, back over the wall to their own compound. And more recently, they intervened in Mali when an Islamist terrorist group was causing problems.
My Father was next to the French Bn in Korea (all French no foreigners allowed) they did good work.
