Anyone interested in joining the french foreign legion?

My uncle was in it for much of his life. Saw him parade many times on Bastille day. As far as I know he got out 10 or 15 years ago and since then has been doing contractual security work in former French colonies around the world, but mostly in Africa in the oil and minerals business. He got into it by doing a bunk from the UK for an assault I think my dad told me. Now-a-days though Interpol seems to be tracing quite a few people to the Legion, so it seems that it's not possible to completely disappear into it.
 
I always sigh when I see people abusing France for being crap at fighting.

It was kind of funny in the 80s, but since then it's just gotten tired. It's gone from a bit of a ribbing at them for 20th century world wars to some kind of accepted wisdom from stupid people. The joke wasn't that France was bad at fighting, they never were. They just didn't have a good patch between the Franco-Prussian war (which formed Germany) and WW2. France, historically is an extremely colonial nation, and they were the terrors of Europe for hundreds of years.

By all accounts Germany are not the military nation stupid people seem to think they are. They were part of the Holy Roman Empire, but mainly they were ruled from outside of what is now Germany, and then they shattered into lots of small nations dominated by Austria, and it was only under Prussia that they came to any collective significance - coincidentally at the expense of France.
 
You can go back to your original as far as I know. I'm not sure whether my uncle still uses his legion name or has reverted back to his birth name. Been years since I've spoken to him.
 
Got their arses handed to them in Indo-China after WW2. Also welcomed fleeing SS soldiers into their ranks, those that were trying to avoid capture and possible internment/war crimes tribunals/Gulags.

Join a proper army!
 
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