The Military Gendarme was a French gendarme (military serving as civilian police) stationed in Port-Gentil in French Equatorial Africa during World War I. In January 1917, the Gendarme was stationed at a post near the docks outside the garrison at Port-Gentil when he witnessed an altercation between two Belgian officers, Captain Henri Defense (Indiana Jones) and Lt. Remy Baudouin. When he came to investigate, Defense was on the ground, after receiving a punch from his subordinate. The gendarme asked what had happened, and Defense shrugged off his help, saying that it was Belgian salute.