O.K. So, I know we’ve all heard jokes about the frail French military. Well, this was in the March 2010 issue of Readers Digest. It seems that in March 2010, the war in Afghanistan becomes the lengthiest military conflict in US history. In reflection, Reader’s Digest featured at it’s center, photographs taken by photo journalists over the years accompanied by snippets by Kim Barker about what the photograph is and why the particular photo is special to the particular photographer.
Right there on page 119 is that sure made me chuckle. I’ve scanned it in for you to see. As if the use of little plastic army men by the French in their teaching of Afghan soldiers wasn’t comical enough, I’ve highlighted my favorite part of the caption which reads… “Here a French soldier was teaching the Afghans how to retreat from the enemy”.
Most of these photos and their descriptions were pretty touching though. It was a good article and I’ve included the a link where you can download a .pdf file of the article I found online by Clicking Here. It’s much clearer and easier to read than the scanned .jpg of my print copy. It’s definitely worth checking out & I bet you chuckle when you get to page 119 too.
French Teach Afghan Soldiers To Retreat
