What's your/your family military background?

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Father: military service with the Marine Infantry-Colonial Troops/Paratroopers, posted in the Aisne. Hated it, but made good friends and tells good stories about it, like sleeping under the tank during a Franco-German military training thingee.
Paternal grandfather: NCO in the French military, served in World War II and in the Indochina War as well as colonial postings in Africa. Taken prisoner by the Japs in Indochina, slit the throat of a Jap guard and escaped. Don't know much else about the rest of his career, except that he was gone for a very very long time and often came close to death.
Paternal great-great-grandfather (I think): In the French navy, likely around the time of Napoleon III.

The two kids of my dad's brother both recently retired (at age 35) from the military/police. One was in the Republican Guard somewhere, the other was for the army working with military radars in Orange. The latter is currently working around the world in places like Iran or the PRC for private military contractors.

No recent service of note on my mother's side, they were all (by contemporary standards) middle-class farmers or small town folks doing jobs related to small town things.