The French foreign legion

The French foreign legion

Anyone know much about this? Or have any relatives/friends that have been in/know anyone that's been?

I've looked here & here already! Cheers

u thinkin bout joinin like marc?

yeh a bloke where i live was in for about 10 years, before becoming a royal close protection dude, and now he runs a local shop

Yep. I feel like i need to find out who i the fuck i am again mate, if you know what i mean? Do something worthwhile, while i'm still young enough to!!!

so i was told the other day, conditions and pay are fairly decent now

Stephen, next time you speak to him try and get his E mail address please (if he has one that his) I'd be interested in finding out more from him

holy hell bud, bit extreme innit? ya a braver/crazier man than me like!!

I'll pop in the shop on Tuesday and see if he's got one..

bloke i work with drinks with an ex legionaire

he had to attempt to kill himself to get back to civilisation, then desert from the hospital an get back home (apparently).

7yrs minimum service i think, and im sure if you desert and they find you your destined for the bastille,

wasnt there not a reality stylie tv show on it ???

its just the garlic sas innit???

maybe, but i have a good idea already what i'd be getting into!

Spot on

From what i've read it's 4 years, just like the British army. Desertion is still rife apparently but i wouldn't dare get on the train if it wasn't exactly what i was after!

@ the Garlic SAS! They are considered elite, but i doubt they are that elite!

i can see a monty python type sketch in all this...

i watched a film with jean claude van damme and he was in the legion looked piss easy


ill join 2

The pay on that web site is only about £600 a month!!

theres a fella who lived in me old street who was in, he went awol like

It's not really about the money though.

But, if you wanted to look at it like that; it's actually £600 a month after food/accommodation is paid for (even then that's the very minimum)...which you don't really get a chance to spend anyway!

Me brother wants to go in, but he's a bit wrong in the head and got booted out of the army.

He bought this DVD.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/572438/Foreign-Legion/Product.html

i knew a lad that went in years ago
he said it was just a place for criminals on the run from authorities when he was in but its all changed now due to e.u laws.when he was in he was facing 10yrs for a murder he never commited (self defence) but he went on the run to the legion,apparently there were dozens of the same in there.
he was in gabon for 5 years before he left and he is now head of security for a rich familly in corsica.after the five years he became a french citizen and changed his name in france before getting married to an italian girl (federica) who oddly was the girl that the fight that led to the "murder" was over.
they have been together now for 5 years and he loves it over there.

The should make a film about his life.

Romance
Deaths
Foreign locations

and a happily ever after ending.