Even if everyone was working hard to clean the rest of the new camp, we needed a week to finish the job. Those who were living in the burned tents could temporarily
Contact! Contact! Wake up! It was around 1am. I was sleeping in my camping bed like a child when I heard people shouting and screaming everywhere. Gunfire came from the guards’ direction
Personally, I was happy being able to spend a couple of days in Bangui. It meant that we can have a shower each night, eat something correct for breakfast and launch and
We were near to the half of our mandate. The tempo was still quite high and many guys from the company got malaria. Although we had a some sort of medicament against
People usually think that being in the French Foreign Legion means many suffering moments and inhuman trainings. The half of my service I passed on courses all around in France. At the
I didn’t find anything different in Bria than in the others villages we went through in Central Africa. Perhaps a bit more people were out of their house, but that was everything
Once the airplane landed, the battlegroup we made part received a new mission. The two platoons from our company, elements from cavalry and infantry units were heading toward the eastern part of
For the first time since the beginning of the operation, we had a daily routine. Once everyone has successfully shaved, we put our stuff in one of the classroom of the old
The battlegroup arrived to Sibut at the end of the day. Another unit was already there and established a temporary base. Until the platoon chief went to the debriefing, I refilled the
Short after 6AM the battlegroup was on the move. I was excited and didn’t know where to look, because I wanted to see everything. The landscape, the lifestyle and even the scent