Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

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Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby RYP » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:45 pm

Frenchie was in the legion and according to Frenchie, he spent most of his time in the brig.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/e ... ts-ro.html

By Nathan Hodge
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March 31, 2009 | 2:02:00 AM
Categories: Bizarro, Crime, Mercs

Earlier this month, a convenience store clerk in Shelbyville,
Tennessee confounded an armed robbery attempt. While the robber
made off with $90, the clerk, 69-year-old Frank Dickerson, closed
the luckless bandit's fingers in the cash register -- and beaned
him in the head with a well-aimed beer can as he made his exit.

Police subsequently arrested Richard Lowell "Rick" Blanchard and
charged him in the convenience store robbery; the Shelbyville
Times-Gazette said he was being held at Bedford County Jail on
$150,000 bond. The alleged robber is known in the national press
as well: Blanchard, nicknamed "Frenchie," was part of a crew of
private contractors detained by U.S. Marines in 2005 for opening
fire on U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians. The contractors were
kicked out of the country and barred from further work following
the so-called "Zapata" incident. They claimed they were roughed
up by the Marines.

Blanchard, described variously as a former Florida state trooper,
ex-Marine and onetime French Foreign Legionnaire, complained to
the Los Angeles Times: "I never in my career have treated anybody
so inhumane ... They treated us like insurgents, roughed us up,
took photos, hazed us, called us names."

His story makes a curious footnote to the "Zapata" incident,
which at the time was considered a textbook example of the legal
confusion created by employing armed contractors in Iraq. Much
has changed since then: New rules placed contractors under
military jurisdiction, and a U.S.-Iraqi status of forces
agreement makes contractors subject to Iraqi law. In the case of
the alleged convenience story robbery, however, it looks like the
laws of the State of Tennessee will apply.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby RomanianDUDE87 » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:50 pm

cool. so this guy was a foreign legion deserter and he still managed to get employed as a contractor? awesome, im packing up my bags and heading off to aubagne as we speak.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby Kurt » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:22 pm

Oh that reminds me of another prediction for this year:

Contractors/Ex-contractors will be involved in a Brinks or Loomis robbery.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby Atrax » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:12 am

Kurt wrote:Oh that reminds me of another prediction for this year:

Contractors/Ex-contractors will be involved in a Brinks or Loomis robbery.


I think Active Army has armed robberies covered for now. My AO alone can boast a bank robbery and some street mugging type stuff. Retards.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby denise » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:06 am

long live the sand pebbles, and most especially, http://www.thesandpebbles.com/attenboro ... orough.htm, i find him the most romantic hero - ever.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby flipflop » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:38 am

denise wrote:long live the sand pebbles, and most especially, http://www.thesandpebbles.com/attenboro ... orough.htm, i find him the most romantic hero - ever.


Throughout Attenborough's career he never bettered his performance in his first starring role, a truly romantic character:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(film)

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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby Jumper » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:44 am

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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby RYP » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:33 pm

yup that's him....talked to him on the phone a bit when he was being harassed by another contractor who by a remarkable cooincidence is Kurt's prediction

"Contractors/Ex-contractors will be involved in a Brinks or Loomis robbery.'

is exactly that guy...takes one to know one..
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:45 pm

Hahahahaaaa… this guy is way notorious in the contractor community – notorious as in hated, There are entire threads on some Civilian Contractor forums just about him



Good riddance to one of the bad apples


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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby RYP » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:00 pm

I always said takes one to know one... He had an internet fuckfest with the PMC crowd but he will live on as "the worst case scenario" Somebody gotta work those dog ass PMC gigs.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby Kurt » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:06 pm

flipflop wrote:
denise wrote:long live the sand pebbles, and most especially, http://www.thesandpebbles.com/attenboro ... orough.htm, i find him the most romantic hero - ever.


Throughout Attenborough's career he never bettered his performance in his first starring role, a truly romantic character:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(film)

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I still have not read that book yet either. Graham Greene is one of my favorite authors.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby realrescue3 » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:43 pm

so he hasnt changed much... a few Legionaires I know here like
spedning thier time in the brig during the cool winter months....

gets em out of boring guard duty.
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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby denise » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:00 pm

flipflop wrote:
denise wrote:long live the sand pebbles, and most especially, http://www.thesandpebbles.com/attenboro ... orough.htm, i find him the most romantic hero - ever.


Throughout Attenborough's career he never bettered his performance in his first starring role, a truly romantic character:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(film)

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Cheers


i consider your recommendation the highest any movie can receive, but alas, i have a most certain feeling i won't be finding Brighton Rock on the shelf of the local Blockbuster but i'll give it a try right after re-reviewing and returning this hilarious movie about a very unhappy episode in my nation's history featuring a most unlikely unromantic anti-villian...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/


though after watching part two of the history channel's series "the presidents" i must admit i have developed a mad crush on this incredible speciman of american manhood...sorry sir richard ;)

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Re: Mercenaries: The End of Frenchie

Postby ricktn40 » Fri May 27, 2016 11:28 pm

I wonder what ever happened to the poor chap
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