These two weeks were one of my favorite moments of my first year in the French Foreign Legion. When I chose 2° REG, I knew they do at least two months of
I went down to Avignon and flew back home with the first flight from Geneva. To be able to fully enjoy my vacation I switched off my phone because I didn’t want
I had a particular eye on me in the company during the next few days. I haven’t even passed 2 weeks there but everyone knew my name. Fantastic. At the beginning, I
I already told some stories about how my fellow Legionnaires did bananes. This is a story about my own very first. Once we passed our first few days in our unit and
He woke us up at 5AM and gave 10 minutes to get ready. This time I was the first one to be outside at the corridor at 5.05AM. The others were nowhere,
I remember very well. I just turned on the corner of the corridor at 6.57PM. Not a second later. I was even congratulating myself for the hilarious idea, that I left 3
My weekends passed quickly by. I was on the bus bringing the legionnaires up to St. Christol. Those, who had less than 5 years of service didn’t have too much choice because
After the BSM, we received during a small ceremony our first “brevet” and we were half on our way to complete our basic mountain course. At the end of that week, we
For the last 2 weeks, we had 3 modules left to validate our BSM. A shooting séance in snow with skies, a night in igloo and the final ascending test. Until the
Sunday was the rest day of the week. Light skiing on the slopes until lunch and the afternoon was free for the platoon. Most of the guys were watching a film, some