This was one of my favorite field missions. We marched out to the farm of the 1st company and passed a week in a forest just next to it. Only a couple of weeks left from the training and the instructors became a bit less strict. It made the atmosphere much better.
We didn’t have to do the Morse training during the nights and could go to sleep after dinner
The result: we didn’t become zombies in a couple of days. At the end of the week on Thursday, the night before leaving, we organized a barbecue. A small team went out in town to buy food and beer. We were drinking after dinner around the campfire when a guy told us “the Anglophone story of 2°REG” (an Anglophone is a person who speaks English fluently). I don’t know if it’s true or how it happened exactly, but I’ll try to recall his story as well as I can, because it was one of the bests I’ve ever heard.
Once happened
that a Finnish guy went up to St. Christol on a Friday evening after finishing a training in Castel. You need to know, that St. Christol is a very small village at 850 meters of altitude in the Alps. People living around the base are mostly farmers, cheese makers or shepherds. They keep sheep even in some parts of the base…
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So as the Finnish guy arrived to the base, he went up to the corridor and heard some music from a room. He found a brunch of his Anglophone comrades – mostly Scandinavians – gently drinking, chatting and listening to some music. The Finnish asked them if they have something left to eat, because he tried to catch up some food in the snack bar, but it was already closed. The others didn’t have anything edible left, so they just invited him to join them in drinking.
When it comes to alcohol, everyone has a bottle of whiskey or a few cans of beer hided somewhere in a locker. Just in case of emergency. This time it wasn’t different. As the evening turned into night and the important stock of alcohol diminished, our heroes became Irish-sailor-drunk.
Everyone knows that alcohol gives people an incredible level of intelligence and one of our friends got an amazing idea.
“What if we shot a sheep and made a barbecue?” – he asked the other legionnaires.
“F*ck yeah, that’s a brilliant idea! – said an American.
He took a bow (!) out of his locker and shot the first sheep in the ass out of the window. As his comrades were clapping him on the shoulder for the nice shot, they heard a blood-freezing scream from the meadow. The sheep didn’t die, but ran and turned around with an arrow in his ass.
Our heroes didn’t need more, they ran downstairs for dear sheep life and started to chase the injured animal.
Naturally, the poor sheep couldn’t resist this dream team of legendary war heroes and died a few hundred meters further from a second shot. They carried back the animal to their room’s lavatory and started to cut it into pieces. It became clear in a few minutes, that none of them had the necessary knowledge to prepare a sheep. The magic disappeared and none of them was motivated for a midnight barbecue anymore. They just threw out the carcass and went to sleep. They left lavatory in full of shit, blood and sheep fur…
Bonjour monsieur .
How are you …?? Hope you’re doing well in life .
I’m Alessandro , I’m 19 years old , I’m going to join Légion étrangère very soon ( prolly after 6-7 months ) . I want to ask a little question , it’s bit personal btw , hope you don’t mind .
My Question : I have heard that some of the candidates offer their first month pay-checks as bribe to the recruiting officer just to get them selected . ( By bribes : I mean offerings or some kind of rewards for getting them selected ) . Is it completely true …?? .
If yes , then I can offer them my six months pay-checks to get me selected .
With all due respect …,
Should I try that (offer bribes ) or not .???
Hoping to see an early response and sorry if it sounds bit personal or offensive in any way .
I passed all the tests and on Thursday the names of those who were accepted were read, but my name was not in those names and I failed and they sent me home and they said if I want to try again I have to write a letter to the general and he decided But I have no reason not to reject me. I do not know if there is any hope or not. I dream of the Legion every night and I really want to return to the Legion again.
the version i heard is that a genius had its bbq in the open wild during a weekend, and even invited the PLE who passed by to take a bite, the PLE (normally a CCH as all the stereotypes on CCHs) ate happily without suspicious but only recieved questions from local people couple of days later, the thing was covered up but since then the EIU add that area into their patrol plan.
not exactly the same on the details but while the story basically hold the same principles as yours XD