Rouget.

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Once there was Bob Denard. NOW there is Richard Rouget. Thanks to a variety of sources!

Richard Rouget - French military man, now a naturalized South African citizen, a soldier-at-large, a self-described "mentor"!

Bob Denard, "Colonel" that is, making a name for himself as a mercenary in many parts of Africa during the turbulent period of de-colonization in the 1960's, having passed away now, the torch having been given to and carried must successfully now by Richard. Richard also liking to refer to himself as "Colonel Sanders"!

At this point time the military career of Richard lasting for over two decades now, and continuing, most recently as a "contract employee" of an American firm - Richard "mentoring" the black African troops trying to maintain law and order in the embattled nation of Somalia.

That career of Richard most impressive:

* "a mercenary officer of Bob Denard's Comorian Presidential Guard."

* "led a group of mercenaries in Europe that was doing reconnaissance on the African National Congress"

* "a graduate of the French Military Academy" [St. Cyr?]

* "a commissioned officer in the French Army's air-mobile infantry"

* "active in extreme right-wing [student] movements like GUD . . . and PFN"

* "involvement in mercenary activities in Ivory Coast"

Richard having seen combat action in one way or another in locales to include:

* 1987 Comoro Islands.

* 2003 Ivory Coast.

* 2011 Somalia.

Read further of Richard and his exploits!

"Mercenaries in Ivory Coast"

"U.S. Relies on Contractors in Somalia Conflict"

"Richard Rouget (also known as ‘Colonel Sanders’), a former officer in the French Army who has recent combat experience in several African countries. Rouget’s mission is to train Kenyan and Ugandan troops in counterinsurgency techniques, as well as special operations, including sabotage and assassinations."

Richard follows in a proud tradition of mercenaries of the French persuasion. At one time, persons such as Bob Denard were unable to obtain commissions in the French Army, their pedigree not including that sufficient degree of bearing, education, even nobility, minor or otherwise. French military men of ability and skill, however, able to ply their trade far and wide, Africa quite often being the destination as is the case with Robert Rouget.

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