Here's the deal

[poacher]

keep your head down and mouth shut. no one bar the ACTUAL legionaries can tell you what to expect but even they cannot tell what will happen exactly, for all anyone knows you could turn up and find it no challenge at all.

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If you get into the legion or manage to get into the Brit army (in which there are ways to get in the back door) then you will come to realize that there are always MORONS who say ''i could have been in the parachute reg me, i just couldn't take a Sgt shouting in my face id bang him out'' or people who claim they are the fittest people and pissed the entrance test's and could have been in the army/legion if they hadn't GIVEN UP <-----

i will point out that anyone who applied then gave up DOESNT HAVE A CLUE HOW HARD IT IS
if you do 6 weeks of basic training then say its not for you then quit thats fair enough but you don't have the right to say ''its easy mate it just wasnt for me'' because they haven't done the time! i get that these people know how hard 6 weeks basic is but if you didnt serve your time as a squaddie/legionnaire then you dont have a clue about how hard it is to be a soldier.

i will say though if you fail selection for something you cant change then MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU at least you tried but you always get one person who quits in training and says its not for them then they say its easy! theres one or two guys if you read the posts that failed because of something stupid and would kill for another go but the people who quit and say ITS EASY are idiots please take their advice with a pinch of salt!
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rant over!


READ THE POSTS. the info is all there but YOUR experience WILL differ from the stories.

when i joined the Brit army id never heard of staging on im sure you will become familiar with this!
there are allot of things you will experience that you wont expect just keep at it and just keep moving forward and remember when its cold and wet that the guys around you are going through the same sh*t.

stay low move fast all the best to you.

[True Metal]

I just commented on selection, said nothing about the actual training, which selection is not hard for a fit man.
The hardest part, is to stay there. Also, i do not understand why some of you think that i lie about the 3000 km... the legion alone places the standard in 2.800, my score was something more than 200 meters more than that, i have no reasons to lie.

Also, i did not say that i quit cause it was easy, there were other things i did not like and choose to leave, one of those things was that i saw people who actually surpassed the required limits, had the military experience but were sent home, while others, who barely did one pull up and considered the code of honor corvee, were selected.

in no part i tried to reduce the quality of the legion, after all i did not see what the real legion is, again i say that i pointed out things i saw in the selection, its that simple.

[Tonyus]

(...) Also, i do not understand why some of you think that i lie about the 3000 km... the legion alone places the standard in 2.800, my score was something more than 200 meters more than that, i have no reasons to lie.(...)

3000 Kilometers? Three Thousand Kilometers? Are you sure you ran that much on this planet?

[True Metal]

i see the mistake, its 3 km, did the translation wrong, my bad

[maim]

True metal is what he has between the ears! He still hasn't twigged to KM's vs M's. OK Scotty warpspeed!

[Legion-eire]

one of those things was that i saw people who actually surpassed the required limits, had the military experience but were sent home, while others, who barely did one pull up and considered the code of honor corvee, were selected.

Yep, because true legionnaires arrive fully formed at the gates of Aubagne!!!??

Some of the best corporals who beasted me during instruction were lads who were close to being kicked out for insubordination in their respective regiments before being slung on the Castel dungheap. However, once that slow-burning, hidden and inexplicable Legion gene kicks in - a gene fermented and nourished over years of gradual progression out of the shit swamp and into a real existence as a professional legionnaire - you'll find nobody more honoring of our code d'honneur, nobody more proud of our kepi blanc, not a single person more demanding of the highest standards from young, quivering, pasty fcuking wannabe EVs than these guys.

True Metal, I've seen countless guys surpass the "required" limits with their prior service, get accepted, give up, desert, melt into a trembling ball of piss rocking slowly in the corner to the rhythm of a barely audible whimper. I've also seen scrawny Chinamen incapable of 2 pull ups come home from a tour of Afghanistan with two bullets in the back, still breathing, still smiling, still serving France and the French Foreign Legion.

You know nothing, shut your mouth. You are ten times weaker than those who "barely did one pull up and considered the code of honor corvee", because in spite of those perceived hardships, they remained. You didn't. End of!

[soldierwnab]

Yep, because true legionnaires arrive fully formed at the gates of Aubagne!!!??

Some of the best corporals who beasted me during instruction were lads who were close to being kicked out for insubordination in their respective regiments before being slung on the Castel dungheap. However, once that slow-burning, hidden and inexplicable Legion gene kicks in - a gene fermented and nourished over years of gradual progression out of the shit swamp and into a real existence as a professional legionnaire - you'll find nobody more honoring of our code d'honneur, nobody more proud of our kepi blanc, not a single person more demanding of the highest standards from young, quivering, pasty fcuking wannabe EVs than these guys.

True Metal, I've seen countless guys surpass the "required" limits with their prior service, get accepted, give up, desert, melt into a trembling ball of piss rocking slowly in the corner to the rhythm of a barely audible whimper. I've also seen scrawny Chinamen incapable of 2 pull ups come home from a tour of Afghanistan with two bullets in the back, still breathing, still smiling, still serving France and the French Foreign Legion.

You know nothing, shut your mouth. You are ten times weaker than those who "barely did one pull up and considered the code of honor corvee", because in spite of those perceived hardships, they remained. You didn't. End of!

ah its the will that counts which is way i so hope i get a chance to prove myself and make it through selection

[belabok]

Yep, because true legionnaires arrive fully formed at the gates of Aubagne!!!??

that is the most important part..... "fully formed" - mentally and physically

but lets not make it about "will" alone. My son wanted to do this all his life. from I can rememebr he told us that is what he wanted to do. he work hard at that. Trained hard.
never seen him here on an internet site declaring to the world what he is about to do. he already made up his mind and no internet site is going to help him making it easier. It was like in your days when there were no internet. You packed your bags and off you went into a total unknown. For that I respect him very much to go and stand before gates of legion not knowing what to expect, but he know that is what he need to do.

BUT my son went first attempt, easily making the minimums but was only in the top 40% of the people who rocked up with him. he was given inapt 3months.
he came back worked even harder training his ass off... went back after 3 months. second attempt his physical was pullups 12, luc leger level 13 and put him amongst the top 4 candidates in his group. Only that got him past physical and change with gustapo and now he is serving proudly.

Bottom line is there seem to be no consistency in testing and it seem that on the day it all depend in what mood the corporals/officers got up as I have heard here all scenarios, some barely making minimums, still being excepted, while others have to compete against the best of the day needing to far exceed the minimums.

So my advice is make sure you are ready for whatever can happen on the day of selection. you can be lucky and it can be really easy for you or you will be made to sweat for passing selection.

Its all up to the individual...
Will you be ready mentally and physically or will you go with pre-conceived ideas and come back rejected, disillusioned, because it then did not happen as he has read here on an internet solution.

Bottom line is you need to be ready for whatever is going to happen on the day, and that can be anything. The legion is NOT about consistency in testing. That has been proven over and over again. ask 100 legionaires about their selection/testing and you will get 100 different stories.

Just remember that there are 90% more applicants then what the legion want. You want to rock up ordinaire barely making minimums, or properly prepared to be in top 10% of the candidates that rock up with you. Whose chances will be better to be excepted (Physically). I think it is really a no brainer.

[True Metal]

I gave my advice, nobody can speak for my self, only me, the fact that 80% that stay are desperate and do it only for the money says a lot of things, still that does not make them bad soldiers, it's just that there are too many fancy myths about the legion.

Also, i know that many desert, or try to desert when they go at aubagne... so i guess those selected are not always legion material eh?

Well that's my point of view, i saw good guys leave and bad guys stay, it's that simple, i still respect the legion a lot, the discipline is tough, and all soldiers have something good to say.

[flymantobe]

the fact that 80% that stay are desperate and do it only for the money says a lot of things

Firstly, I know that 100 euro's in Greece is a fcuk load of money nowadays but seriously...the salary in the Legion really is not much, I personally would not be able to live off that. One weekend of drunken whoring around and its gone.

i saw good guys leave and bad guys stay, it's that simple

Like you, I have been to the Legion, I have actually been there twice and here is the thing...you and I both have not seen sh!t. We dont know who is good or bad just by being there a few days..cmon mate, you sound a little sour because you never made it in
Bottom line is, you can be the fittest most intelligent person there but your chances of getting in is 50/50 nothing easy nothing hard...the hard part is sticking to your word and staying your 5 years, in good time and bad.

[True Metal]

Firstly, I know that 100 euro's in Greece is a fcuk load of money nowadays but seriously...the salary in the Legion really is not much, I personally would not be able to live off that. One weekend of drunken whoring around and its gone.



Like you, I have been to the Legion, I have actually been there twice and here is the thing...you and I both have not seen sh!t. We dont know who is good or bad just by being there a few days..cmon mate, you sound a little sour because you never made it in
Bottom line is, you can be the fittest most intelligent person there but your chances of getting in is 50/50 nothing easy nothing hard...the hard part is sticking to your word and staying your 5 years, in good time and bad.

I'm not sour, it was my decision, so for me i did the right thing, not all of us can be legionaires i agree to that. I only speak about the selection and only selection and i judge from what i saw, each experience differ, as i said before there were other things that i didn;t like and decided to live.

And yes i agree that the hardest part is to stay the five years, that's why i'm sayin selection is easy, you are ok with the sports and give a nice profile of you and you are in. But to stay there its another thing.

[Tonyus]

Hmm, I'm starting to understand the reason why some of the "greens", specially the "old gang" (no offence), is not around anymore. Most of us "blue" ones talk and moan about things we have, not even the slightest clue, not one day of a Legionnaire's life, never the less a year or five. Everyone has it's own reasons for joining, deciding what to do after finishing the contract, deserting, asking to leave while in selection, etc. IMHO this is not a forum for soap opera stories and it's best for those reasons to be kept private.

(beer drinking brake....)

So, where was I... ? Oh, yes. That's all.

(more beer drinking... Sh*t, I'm out! Off, for another one's...)

[whatever222]

Don't forget to go through a few IQ tests as well, preferably a few of each kind there is out there (numerical, verbal, spatial and so on). Don't bother memorizing them instead try to remember the patterns and get used to them. Good luck.