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La Grande Vadrouille (French pronunciation: [la ɡʁɑ̃d vadʁuj]; transl. "The Great Stroll"), originally released in the United Kingdom as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, is a 1966 French-British comedy film directed by Gérard Oury about French civilians who, in 1942, help the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber that has been shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied ...
French war comedy-drama films (5 P) Pages in category "French war comedy films" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
After shooting down one of the German planes, a French pilot, Lieutenant Duvauchel, makes an emergency landing and escapes before his plane explodes. PFC Pithiviers, seeing the bad shape of one of his shoes, destroys what is left of his shoe sole. Tassin is sent on patrol to get food and a new pair of shoes for Pithiviers.
The French Armed Forces ( French: Forces armées françaises) are the military forces of France. They consist of four military branches – the Army, the Navy, the Air and Space Force and the National Gendarmerie. The National Guard serves as the French Armed Forces' military reserve force.
Semi-automatic pistol. 9×19mm Parabellum. French-manufactured variant of the Beretta 92. Entered service with the national gendarmerie in 1989, with the Air Force in 1992, and with the Army and Navy in 1999. 97,502 units in service in 2002 [ 3] Also being replaced by the Glock 17 Gen 5 FR since 2020.
In Russian military jokes, a praporschik (warrant officer) is an archetypal bully, possessed of limited wit. A. Dmitriev illustrates his sociological essay "Army Humor" with a large number of military jokes, mostly of Russian origin. [27] There is an enormous number of one-liners, supposedly quoting a praporschik:
Military humor is humor based on stereotypes of military life. Military humor portrays a wide range of characters and situations in the armed forces. It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes, making use of burlesque, cartoons, comic strips, double entendre, exaggeration, jokes, parody, gallows humor, pranks, ridicule and sarcasm .
The crayon-eating Marine is a humorous trope (or meme) associated with the United States Marine Corps, emerging online in the early 2010s. Playing off of a stereotype of Marines as unintelligent, the trope supposes that they frequently eat crayons and drink glue. In an instance of self-deprecating humor, the crayon-eater trope was popularized ...