daily life in the french foreign legion reddit

5 years ago. What's gunnery like, daily life like, deployments like, etc. Daily Marine Corps (infantry) life for those who don’t know consists 0530- wake up, hygiene, make coffee 0615- 15 minutes prior in the quad for formation 0630- morning formation (usually in PT gear) 0635-0640- begin PT 07-0715- chow, I would goto the gym 0830- get back from gym, shower, change over into cammies, stand by in my barracks room. The Legion is there to soak up the bullets that would otherwise cost the French Government votes.

Joel Struthers (formerly of the Legion) has a new book called Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion. Hi im 18 and im thinking about joining the foreign legion recently!

After all, who will parents blame when their sons are coming home from places like Indochina, Algeria, Chad, Iraq, Afghanistan and Mali in bodybags?

As I understood, you must land on France and then send them a form with your informations, how much time you guys believe I'm going to wait until I be called by them? A relevant comment in this thread was deleted. Why do I want to join the foreign legion? You can read it below. I have also started to learn french online and i’m hoping to fit a french course into my timetable at college next semester. Maybe it will, and it did for me but a LOT of people regret it and decide to go civil during training or desert afterwards because they regret joining. Are they generally always mounted or do they deploy for dismounted OPEXes? Hello guys, I have already bought my ticket to the France to join the french foreign legion, I'm going next week. Thanks everyone. There seem to many requests for something along these lines, so I thought I'd do my best to answer whatever questions Reddit has. Please understand that some questions I may choose to not answer, or not answer as completely as you'd like, as not everyone in my life is aware of my service. As an American Adjutant once told me, “Why would they care? As a korean i need to do my service for almost 2years since its mandatory for every korean to go to the military. A lot of you have starry eyes like I did and think that the Legion is the best of the best and that your life will improve dramatically once you join. (Little background story why im thinking about joining thr foreign legion) growing up in germany for 4 and a half years and in canada for little bit i always hated korea and the culture and everything.

IAmAn American who joined, and served, in the French Foreign Legion. I recently recorded a podcast with Joel where we talk about his book, the training and missions to Africa that he was deployed on.