What does NATO have in common with the Hells Angels MC?

Have to admit I was something of a Sonny Barger fan in my youth.

Urban legend has it that Barger once offered LBJ his boys to form an elite fighting unit in Viet Nam. The offer was declined.

Not sure what kind of fighting unit they would have made. Don't imagine the yellow guys would have been too impressed with a bunch of fat white guys waving pool cues at them out there in the jungle.

So it's probably just as well that the Angels stayed state-side. 

And while they may not have officially made it to Viet Nam, they did go international. There are chapters in most countries in the free world today.

Nice work, Sonny.

What makes the Hells Angels just like NATO is their basic operational maxim. All for one and one for all.

That's the ethos that gives a full-patch Angel his incredible swagger in any bar in the world. Unless it's an Outlaws or Bandidos bar of course.

And that's what gives Turkey its incredible swagger. All for one etc.

So when plucky little Turkey is busy funneling money and weapons and fighters into Syria over these last 19 months, they know they do not walk alone.

They've got the full swagger of the NATO gang behind them.