Changing Name

**FallenOne** · 16th December 2004, 15:34

If they decide to change your name do you get to choose what you want or do they just give you a random name?

**voltigeur** · 16th December 2004, 16:00

Originally Posted by FallenOne

If they decide to change your name do you get to choose what you want or do they just give you a random name?

They will give you an other name, from what I have read so far, it usually starts with the same initials. (you better make/ask for one that is easy to hear when pronounced in French)

**voltigeur** · 16th December 2004, 19:35

Changes all the time

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**Beau-Sheep** · 17th December 2004, 00:01

Bollocks! Ask Slim and Beau! In the eigties you got a phone book and five seconds to pick a name... I went straight to the letter Z and thought "spell this for five years ya tit"

**voltigeur** · 17th December 2004, 02:05

I kept my ful name, but they made me two years older until my rectification.

**Cpl K** · 17th December 2004, 14:29

Usually they change your first and last name but your surname starts with the same letter as before. You have no choice in this. And to get your real name back is loads of hassle... and without your real name you can't leave France on holidays.

**Ralf174978** · 17th December 2004, 14:41

Originally Posted by EX LEGIONNAIRE

Usually they change your first and last name but your surname starts with the same letter as before. You have no choice in this. And to get your real name back is loads of hassle... and without your real name you can't leave France on holidays.

That's correct. My real surname starts with M but my real firstname starts with D.

Originally Posted by Beau-Sheep

Bollocks! Ask Slim and Beau! In the eigties you got a phone book and five seconds to pick a name... I went straight to the letter Z and thought "spell this for five years ya tit"

I can't remember a phone book. In the BSLE there was a S/O, who had a list with common names and a great collection of maps from several countries on the wall (for searching a new place of birth etc.). But I had no influence on the new name who was given to me.

**Arnaude Renoir** · 17th December 2004, 15:01

Do the FFL change your name if had problems with the law or because they want to?

**Ralf174978** · 17th December 2004, 15:17

Originally Posted by Arnaude Renoir

Do the FFL change your name if had problems with the law or becuase they want to?

Today each candidate gets a new identity all the same whether its personal record is clean or not.

**Eagle eye** · 17th December 2004, 15:40

Originally Posted by EX LEGIONNAIRE

... and without your real name you can't leave France on holidays.

...That's officially-speaking but there is always the officious method and far, far, far, far overseas..

**Beau-Sheep** · 17th December 2004, 15:47

Huh? I left France on both my PLDs???? We even had a coffee with the French customs guys and they told us how they knew they were meant to turn us away but they were kinda "what the ****" about it. We boarded an Air France flight in Charles De Gaulle, eleven loud and hairy arsed REP lads, still in uniform and without a single passport... The only problem we encountered was on the way back into the UK, twats held us for three hours before they allowed us to go to the Floyd concert... hehehe....

**Eagle eye** · 17th December 2004, 21:01

Tyhe Chnagde me anme no het wey ni: os I oltd bollocks ot taht: naf anme; os teyh chnadge a 2dn tmie; en i seys KO. No eht wei otu tehy red mi anme tuice afore i relisd ti wus mi lod anme: os I seys: "Relli sori orf nto getin eht dirft 1 tmie rund. KO" (hic)

tis Firde evenng

**mortarman77** · 18th December 2004, 00:22

Originally Posted by Arnaude Renoir

Do the FFL change your name if had problems with the law or because they want to?

Not to get on you or anything but when i read you post, sometimes, i think u post just for the sake of posting.

**chambre14** · 18th December 2004, 15:21

When i was there (December 2003), they took the first letter of my last name and gave me a new last name. Then they told me to pick a new first name that is typical of my country and doesn't start with the same letter as my real name.