And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
My encore career - the foreign legion. If that old guy can do it, so can I.
To join the French Foreign Legion- Be a man aged between 17.5 and 39.5 years. Have a passport (or if from within the EU – an ID card). Have a birth certificate. To not be wanted by Interpol. Be physically fit enough to serve at all times and in all places worldwide for at least five years. To have a BMI between 20 and 30.
Anon, IIRC, they teach the recruits French via extensive full-immersion, so fluency in the language is not a pre-requisite. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:-).
The whole Beau Geste march or die scenario has an appeal? Will you do a blog raffle on your fancy orange car when you bag the day job and join the Legion? Legio Patria Nostra!
Those are FFL Pioneers, who are the only ones allowed to grow beards. The white gauntlets are part of the uniform and were worn while hacking apart the enemy barricades with axes during assaults in the 1800s. They parade wearing a buffalo hide apron and carrying an axe. Al_in_Ottawa
May not even have to join the Foreign Legion to see action, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteIn your dreams, lad.
ReplyDeleteIt' a tough life. That dude is 32.
ReplyDeletedrank Pearl beer his whole life.
DeleteTo join the French Foreign Legion-
ReplyDeleteBe a man aged between 17.5 and 39.5 years.
Have a passport (or if from within the EU – an ID card).
Have a birth certificate.
To not be wanted by Interpol.
Be physically fit enough to serve at all times and in all places worldwide for at least five years.
To have a BMI between 20 and 30.
And speak French?
DeleteAnon, IIRC, they teach the recruits French via extensive full-immersion, so fluency in the language is not a pre-requisite. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:-).
DeleteThe whole Beau Geste march or die scenario has an appeal? Will you do a blog raffle on your fancy orange car when you bag the day job and join the Legion? Legio Patria Nostra!
ReplyDeleteEpic beard, I bet he grew it in 2 months.
ReplyDeleteSorry those gloves don’t cut it.
ReplyDeleteKlaus
may be leather work gloves for the Legion's combat engineers.
DeleteI'll bet he joined at 29, and he has 2 yrs of his first 5 year enlistment. aged fast
ReplyDeleteI was in Germany when I was getting out of the Army. I thought very long and hard about knocking on that gate in Marseilles.
ReplyDeleteI ended up passing. I still regret that, a little.
Those are FFL Pioneers, who are the only ones allowed to grow beards. The white gauntlets are part of the uniform and were worn while hacking apart the enemy barricades with axes during assaults in the 1800s. They parade wearing a buffalo hide apron and carrying an axe.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Moustache looks nicotine stained from unflitered chain
ReplyDeletesmoking which is pretty normal for tough guys.