And that is reason enough to never allow you to enter Military service.
Anyone interested in joining the french foreign legion?
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And that is reason enough to never allow you to enter Military service.
lol wut??
Spetznaz recruiter: "sorry son but you're just too aggressive for us".
What kind of politically correct pacifist rubbish is that?
Did you know that a lot of countries training involve stabbing animals to death, shooting at human cadavers and things like that? Oh but they don't need any KILLERS in their ranks. Ridiculous.
I suppose the military is just there to build football pitches for orphans, heavens forbid not KILL people!
Soldato
Thats a very weird response especially given that in British Armed forces interviews the interviewing officer will flat out asked me if you would be prepared to kill someone, apparently they have to ask everyone that as Armed Forces personel who don't want to kill people are not much use.
I think he meant in the eagerness to kill. I'm sure taking a life might be a necessity, but wanting to kill surely isn't something the army would want.
Couldn't see myself doing the army myself. To much of a rote career. Could easily see myself hitting 40 and being just a........
Also isn't the service a minimum of 12 years?
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minimum service in the British army is 4yrs with this growing if you join a trade requiring specialised training.
I've looked into it and still see it as an option but at the minute im still aiming to get into sandhurst. well if i stop picking up injuries, been 3 years now since ive been injury free for more than 2 months
Sandhurst is a possibility I guess, but I'm not sure its the "career" I want.
Not sure how to describe it. However if I joined at the same level as the FFL, I would be known as a squaddie, and they seem to have a terrible reputation.
By a rote career I mean one which is actually a profession.
Soldato
I used to work with a Romanian guy who was in the French Foreign Legion. He was a bit of a badass to be honest, had scars all over his wrists from a "knife fight" and some pretty awesome stories about wars he'd been in. It's not for the faint hearted, that's for sure.
I think you need to figure out what sort of life you want to lead before you decide which direction to travel.
By the sounds of it joining the Armed Forces of any description is not for you.
Contrary to popular belief the FFL are no different from joining any number of other elite forces in the world, like the Para's or Marines here. In fact both our elite forces are better trained and the training is more arduous.
The generally got their 'badass' reputation because of the 'criminals' that joined to gain French nationality in days gone by.
Soldato
The Documentary I saw featured an soldier who left the marines at 26 & wanted a fresh challenge, he flew through the initial fitness test & a few weeks later was in tears, saying he had never been pushed so hard.
During the interview what looked like a white bin liner flew past the window of his billet, turned out it was a recruit from the floor above trying to commit suicide!
Not sure how effective it makes them in warfare but from what I gathered the training is very tough.
During the interview what looked like a white bin liner flew past the window of his billet, turned out it was a recruit from the floor above trying to commit suicide!
Not sure how effective it makes them in warfare but from what I gathered the training is very tough.
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Having just watched that 40 min documentary as I love this type of stuff, it's defo not what I thought it was. Two words 'Sod That' spring to mind. Take my hat off to those that succeed, but general trait I got was it was simply a place for misfits and loaners. They are simply cannon fodder from where I'm sat.
Pretty much. And their general consensus is "I don't give a ****" about it. Tough b*******. I tracked down my uncles facebook and there's quite a few pictures of him in his FFL days on there, linked through profiles to guys he served with. A lot of comments on pics amount to "I wonder what happened to him? Great soldier, mean drunk".
We served with them in Bosnia and they are not any different than any other elite force. In fact the ones we had with us had trouble keeping up, mean buggers though. Their training may be psychologically difficult, but that doesn't really mean much. There is a difference between physically hard training such as the Royal Marines and Brutal training such as the Legion.
I haven't seen the documentary, but I know a few ex marines who joined up for the experience and none of them said it was that difficult, no more than ML training in the RM anyway. The biggest nightmare was learning French apparently.
I'll give my mate a shout and see what he says, he done both, only got out a year ago.
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The thing this ex marine appeared to struggle with was the continuous beastings, he was a good recruit, kept his gear in good order & did what he was told, however others in his billet were pretty useless. He was constantly getting his stuff thrown out of the door along with the other's belongings due to someone else not stowing their stuff correctly, having to do loads of extra menial chores for things which weren't his fault & generally being treated like crap when he was actually doing well. Apparently this ground him down.
Yeah, that sounds about what I've been told. Pretty brutal psychologically, but iirc they all said was a doddle physically compared to life on the Farm.
Given the Legionnaires I've met, they are all a little unhinged tbh.
Not my cup of tea frankly. I wanted to be a soldier, not some psycho they let loose when no-one else wants to go.
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