Stories

He woke us up at 5AM and gave 10 minutes to get ready. This time I was the first one to be outside at…

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…

My weekends passed quickly by. I was on the bus bringing the legionnaires up to St. Christol. Those, who had less than 5 years…

After the BSM, we received during a small ceremony our first “brevet” and we were half on our way to complete our basic mountain…

For the last 2 weeks, we had 3 modules left to validate our BSM. A shooting séance in snow with skies, a night in…

Sunday was the rest day of the week. Light skiing on the slopes until lunch and the afternoon was free for the platoon. Most…

The last week of the basic engineer training (called CP-04 – CP means practical certificate and 04 is the designation of military engineering in…

After the short holyday, I found out that some guys from my platoon were on service (guard) between Christmas and new years eve. It…

We had to wake up at 5AM, get shaved, dressed and put our stuffs in the bus. We went up the sous-officers (NCO) –…

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…