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Post by justregularguy on Jun 12, 2019 22:14:58 GMT
I've been thinking a lot lately about joining the french foreign legion. To serve in another country and perhaps exotic places like french guyana etc. away from anything I know and leaving everything behind appeals to me. Apparently they can even give you a new identity, but I don't need that.
I really don't have anything that's holding me back so why not give it a shot? I have nothing to lose. Maybe I can find my purpose there. I'm contemplating to reach out to them. Maybe they don't want me but at least then I can say that I tried!
Have any of you guys served in the militairy and what where your experiences? From what I know the payment is fair and they basically take care of everything. Your day has a specific schedule that you must follow. Shelter, food everything you need they provide. The risks are obvious I think.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 13, 2019 0:35:55 GMT
I was in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966-1969 and did a tour in Viet Nam. I was glad to get out.
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Post by Michael on Jun 13, 2019 1:37:10 GMT
JRG did You go to college or ever think about going to college? Or what about learning some kind of trade?
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Post by keith on Jun 13, 2019 17:15:19 GMT
I served in the British Armed Forces for almost eight years as an infantryman.
Our training at the time was for 23 weeks, it was hard and back then we were bullied but it has changed now, so would I recommend it, yes I would, one if the best things that I have ever done.
If you want to go and there is no holding you back, by all means go and give it a go, you will never know otherwise.
As for food, living quarters, you pay, they take it out of your pay before you get it.
Your days are planned out, even your basic training days are laid out for you.
Find out as much as you can before joining up, when I joined there was no internet interaction, so these days you can find out a lot more about what you will letting yourself in for.
Also train like mad before joining, I did and it helped.
Keith.
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Post by stuke on Jun 13, 2019 21:35:46 GMT
I would recommend watching one of the documentaries on You Tube to get more of an idea, if you haven't already
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Post by stormshadow on Jun 14, 2019 0:23:42 GMT
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Post by macky on Jun 14, 2019 2:01:59 GMT
If you like having your days all organized for you without the freedom to chose what you want to do, sent to wherever some high-up person in the food chain who probably will never see (and has never seen) frontline service, and has determined who your latest enemy is that you should point your gun and fire at, and be compelled to learn French as your prime language, then go to it.
Don't get me wrong, if the coast of NZ was being directly invaded, you'd find me there either as an armed defender on the hillside, or in a ship throwing shells etc at the invading force.
But if you don't really feel like going off-shore and renouncing your citizenship, learning how to be a piece of cannon fodder in support of the arms industry and its massive profits and those same high-ups who live in luxury thereof, then don't enlist.
Go and do something pro-life, not anti-life. There's plenty of civvy jobs who have heroes. Some of them are members of this forum.
Macky RNZNVR AB Gunner (A very long time ago)
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 2:11:39 GMT
French Foreign Legion? Screw that.
If you want someone to organize your life for 24hrs/day, rob a bank. If they catch you and you go to prison you'll have 24hr strict supervision and lots of playmates to occupy your time, just like in the legion except that you won't be paid to kill people you don't know. In prison, you'll have the opportunity to kill people you have actually socialized with in a very up-close and more personal way and the decision of who to kill will be your own. If they don't catch you, you'll have lots of money.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 2:28:15 GMT
On second thought, forget the bank robbing suggestion. Join a zen monastery instead.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 2:38:25 GMT
On third thought, find a nice girl, get married, have a family. It will give you purpose like you would not believe. Another option would be to attend social invents in areas of interest to you, become acquainted with like-minded individuals and create your own family of friends. That way, you save a lot of money and stress over divorce.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 2:44:50 GMT
I'm curious .... Have you been watching Jean-Claude Van Damme movies lately?
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 2:57:38 GMT
This may help:
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 14, 2019 3:14:37 GMT
You'd get to wear a wicked-cool hat.
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Post by macky on Jun 14, 2019 5:18:46 GMT
…..esperons san trous.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 14, 2019 11:39:53 GMT
hope saint hole?
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