New AUSTRALIAN FFL book

[mulgarat]

Late 1993? That would have put you in Mururoa in 1995 with all the excitement.

Por tes bonnes souvenirs:

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[flash010]

that link you sent was a load of pish the secound green peace trawler was not ramed and there was not tests at that time
only the mec tests no nuk war head.
i did have photo,s of the assult on the ship and no one was beaten ether
the hatch,s were burned off and the trawler was escorted in to the atoll after debreifing they were sent to papete and then faa air port then home.
the trawler was sent to the bottom of the atoll.
o and the legion had feck all to do with the attack at auckland harbour that was the french marin comando,s
any one says diffrint is a fecking lieing toe rag.

[homercleese]

thats pish you cant compear masion to jennings masion did his time jennings was a fag and a dick that did the wire
masion was a legionnaire and a fecking good one he saved lifes out on the dz
if it was not for him id have been crippled.
as i said before masion is intiteld to his opinion he earned that right

Flash, what did he do on the DZ? Can you talk about it? understand if not, but you get f**k all in life without asking for it, so apologies if me asking offends.

[homercleese]

ps all, here's a link to the book on amazon, bit fookin pricey isnt it!!!33 POUNDS!

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and a review

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[Murph]

o and the legion had feck all to do with the attack at auckland harbour that was the french marin comando,s
any one says diffrint is a fecking lieing toe rag.

The Lt who left some of his kit on the beach in NZ ended up I/C ordinaire in Calvi just before I left

[flash010]

he was a medic in calvi when we got a bad jump i busted my self up badly and the medicine chef a col was in the fence with his leg up his back and his arm hanging badly dislocated the was guys in the road on the beach and one on the roof of the ccs.
the transall did a low pass over the dz and some of us went for a ride till we undid one of the straps he ran about like a loony getting every one in to the infemire.

he did not go out all weekend looking after his mates.
i know plenty who would have said my shifts over am off to the bar but not masion.
thats all i am saying you dont diss a guy who stays with you when your fecked.
there were shit loads of guys dissolusiond in the legion for ether looking for the old story book romantic,
legion it never existed.
or like some of the guys when a shite bag of a chef du corps said the rep was not ready for the gulf war.
theres many things that can pissss you off in the legion .
BUT REMEMBER YOU WHEN LOOKING FOR US WE DONT LOOK FOR YOU

[Samtoo]

or like some of the guys when a shite bag of a chef du corps said the rep was not ready for the gulf war.

That is the first I ever heard of the sort. Why weren't they ready? I don't need to remind anyone of which Legion unit participated in that war.....or even which regiment LED the attack......do I????

[flash010]

it was a tit of a guy called gostress he was about to retire and did not fancy the reg running about the gulf.
so he told paris we were not ready for the gulf.
some of us got attached to the regiment that went but most ended up in jail as we bananed big style.
my mate wee joe amd ford shat on the chef du corps car and got caught.
28 days jail.
the fecking c?nt paraded them at the flag pole every officer who walked passed them shook there hand thats how much the twat was hated.
he came in to our bar were we had a portrait of every chef du corp his had beened binned.
he asked the sarg why his photo was not on the wall he was told it was for the col,s we respected.
he just turned and walked out.
you had to be there to know how much the twat was hated

[Stoeng]

That is the first I ever heard of the sort. Why weren't they ready? I don't need to remind anyone of which Legion unit participated in that war.....or even which regiment LED the attack......do I????

Before the war everybody believed that it would be a total massacre and there where no military units hungering to take our place as the leading regiment inn to Iraq.
We had more bodybags than any of the regiments and even two chaplains with also an endless stream of high ranking officers (with millions of journalist hovering around them) coming to make speeches and tapping on our shoulders telling us how important our mission was.

The MIGHTY !!!! 1er REGIMENT ETRANGER de CAVALERIE moved swiftly inn, cleaned up, and finished the job in 5 days!!!!

Yeahhhhhh!!!!!

[Samtoo]

it was a tit of a guy called gostress he was about to retire and did not fancy the reg running about the gulf.
so he told paris we were not ready for the gulf.

I don't know Flash....something just doesn't seem right to me. I thought the role of the REP was in-fact to BE ready to face any conflict?? Maybe there was a scheduling conflict with the regiment's defiler at the mairie HAHAHAHAHA!!! Or maybe Paris just wanted to send its best??? When you look back, the commanding generals did send in the REC as fodder; the resistance was over-estimated and casualties were expected to be high.

[Kronenberg]

I don't know Flash....something just doesn't seem right to me. I thought the role of the REP was in-fact to BE ready to face any conflict?? Maybe there was a scheduling conflict with the regiment's defiler at the mairie HAHAHAHAHA!!! Or maybe Paris just wanted to send its best??? When you look back, the commanding generals did send in the REC as fodder; the resistance was over-estimated and casualties were expected to be high.

That's just plain fcuking nasty Samtoo - but very, very funny :-)

[flash010]

let sam have his moment he dont get much lol.
feck all to do with paris our chef du corps was a shitbag kapis off to the rec they did us proud.
and sam we were all canon fodder mate lol
am not going to joke on this post the guys who fought and died were worth more than a cheap laff

[mulgarat]

Flash,
Yea I remember all that and got into some arguments when it was going on. Media hype about the testing etc. A lot of people here thought it was still surface and air blasts happening on populated atolls.

This line in the article is good:

"Mathew Whiting, 36, is lately of the French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature"

Spanish Legion? Did'nt they stop taking non-spanish speaking foreigners in 1977 after the pull out from Spanish Sahara. For a 36 yr old he'd certianly been around the block!

[corvee de chotte]

After 1987 it stopped accepting foreigners altogether and changed its name to the Spanish Legion.

[mulgarat]

Thanks mate,
Thought it was earlier than that. But merde alors Whitting was also in the SAS!

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Almost took the island single handed.