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
The last week of the basic engineer training (called CP-04 – CP means practical certificate and 04 is the designation of military engineering in the French Army) wasn’t too hard. We have
After the short holyday, I found out that some guys from my platoon were on service (guard) between Christmas and new years eve. It could have been me, but fortunately, we weren’t
We had to wake up at 5AM, get shaved, dressed and put our stuffs in the bus. We went up the sous-officers (NCO) – who are living in town – to the
I quit the lieutenant’s office and I already knew where I’m going to spend my next years. An hour later when the last one chose his regiment, we went down to the
A month left before the end of the basic trainings and our platoon had two goals to achieve.. The raid march and the final tests. Normally, the raid march is a 3-4