Stories

The company got a week off in March before going to Central Africa In a normal situation, we can leave for 2-3 weeks before…

The third platoon left to Mali on a Thursday afternoon and the rest of the company stayed in St. Christol. I felt lucky, because…

I passed the short Christmas vacation at home, but this time I knew that the year will start in Castelnaudary My unit commander mentioned…

This chapter is going to be a bit different from the others, as 29+1 was. Last time when I wrote a +1 chapter, I…

I’ve been a 1st class legionnaire for 3 months on paper but nobody knows (and cares) until you don’t have a visibly green stripe…

We had less than a week left from that four very long months in Castelnaudary. The platoon organized more and more drinking parties as…

This was one of my favorite field missions. We marched out to the farm of the 1st company and passed a week in a…

The 4th Foreign Regiment in Castelnaudary organizes a regimental exercise three times a year. It was my second, but not the last one at…

During the 4 months, we had 9 weeks of field training. We went back for a week (or more) to each company’s farm and…

I passed the first “final” test by 0,5 point at the end of the 7th week. I was happy, because I didn’t know, but…