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All French Foreign Legion NCOs begin their careers as legionnaires with one in four becoming an NCO. Sous-officiers account for 25% of the current legion's total manpower. * Engage Volontaire - 15 weeks basic training. * Soldat 2e Classe (2nd Class Legionnaire) - on completion of training. * Soldat 1e Classe (1st Class Legionnaire) - within 2 ...
Location. Tyne & Wear North-east of England. Home Country. Aug 12, 2014. #3. You will get a typical French breakie, Coffee, black or with some milk in it, or milk chocolate, a piece of baguette, 15 grams of butter, jam about the same amount and that's it until lunch. You will get served the right amount of calories, with the means of collective ...
Nimes. Home Country. Jul 31, 2018. #2. Pension is given after 17½ years of service. There is an age limit for officiers (officers), sous-officiers (NCOs) and militaires du rang (caporaux-chefs and below). Not sure for now, but I'll find out soon. Imagine : if you join up at the age of 39½, you might well do your initial contract of 5 years ...
Like anywhere else there are forms of corruption... I came across theft by a senior NCO in the mess hall when I was an E.V. I came across theft between legionnaires. I came across deserter kit disappearing into thin air and possibly sold on as army surplus when it wasn't shared in the platoon... I came across gun running of spare parts: the ...
LE. 6 May 2006. #5. I suppose the best that can be said is that the French Foreign Legion certainly used to be very good, and an awful lot bigger than it is today - I recall a figure of some 7,500 all ranks as opposed to 30,000-40,000 at the time of the war in Indochina. There is a certain school of thought - which I partly subscribe to - which ...
Current (June 2022) Foreign Legion Units: 1 Regiment Etranger, (Aubagne) :- known as the "mother house", the Legion's depot unit. Groupement Recruitement Legion Etrangere, (Paris) :- Responsible for running recruiting. 3 Regiment Etranger d'Infanterie (French Guyana):- Light infantry, jungle specialisation.
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Joe, the deployment to Somalia happened within a matter of days. We were on company tour in Djibouti (Arta) at the time. A little unknown fact is that we were on standby to jump just north of Mogadishu if the US had problems taking the airport. There were trucks full of parachutes at Djibouti airport.
1,463. Location. Louisiana. Home Country. Oct 2, 2018. #9. I enlisted one young man in the Marine corps and I slid him past the Dr. with Flat Feet, pure dumb luck, he never made it past boot camp. All of the running, standing, and force marches will destroy what you have left and eventually it will catch up. Sorry.
This Legion fought for the fortified bridge of Arrigorriaga on September 11, 1835. The Spanish Foreign Legion was created along the lines of the French Foreign Legion as a corps of professional troops that could replace conscripts in colonial campaigns. There has been much confusion—even today—in the English speaking countries over the ...