Writer's Research Questions

[Writer]

Screenwriter needs answers to a zillion questions re FFL not yet unearthed in the books I've read, such as this one:
On completion of basic training at Castelnaudary, and return to Aubagne to await assignment to regiment, where exactly might a squad of new Legionnaires gather to say goodby to girl friends (or secret wives) before shipping out?
My name is Stu Samuels. Google/Yahoo list me variously as a producer and writer of movies for television shown in U.S. and around the world, perhaps most notably producing the adaptation of Woodward and Bernstein's Nixon chronicle "The Final Days."
My screenplay concerns the rivalry and evolving fraternity between an American and a Frenchman from enlistment all the way to... well, I can't give that part away, but I'd very much appreciate help from anyone who'd like to see today's Legion dramatized with whatever fidelity to fact and truth I can arrive at through honest research.
Any Legionnaire or ex-Legionnaire who'd like to engage in some running dialogue (and hopefully screen credit when the picture gets made) can contact me via email: uumbra@pacbell.net
Thanks for the consideration and for allowing me to post on your forum.
--Stu Samuels, Los Angeles

[Kornie]

On completion of basic training at Castelnaudary, and return to Aubagne to await assignment to regiment, where exactly might a squad of new Legionnaires gather to say goodby to girl friends (or secret wives) before shipping out?Never been in the Legion myself, but as far as I know, every legionnaire enlists as a single man. So if you have a girlfriend (or secret wife) you dump her (or) say goodbye to her before you enlist. So there is not any group farewell entertainments in the FFL.

[Stoeng]

If assigned to a regiment within France, the new legionnaire would be sent there the same day, and would therefore not have the possibility to meet anybody outside the camp in Aubagne.
However nothing is stopping him from seeing anybody once he is installed in his new regiment.

For the Legionnaires that are posted overseas it is another story.
Usually they will stay in Aubagne until the next departure for his overseas regiment is taking place (normally monthly). While waiting he can freely leave the camp (Aubagne) every evening until his departure.