Disipline And Going To Jail

[Martin Scott]

Have A Question For You If You Dont Mind As Have Just Finished
Pappillion. When Did The French Pull Out Of Guiana In A Penal Sence Of The Word And Like The British Army Does The Ffl Have A Punishment Detention Centre*colchester* Or Are All Disipline And Punishment Issues Dealt With A Regimental Level. I Know In The Days In Africa There Was A Establishment In The Sahara.

[Zigliara]

Have A Question For You If You Dont Mind As Have Just Finished
Pappillion. When Did The French Pull Out Of Guiana In A Penal Sence Of The Word And Like The British Army Does The Ffl Have A Punishment Detention Centre*colchester* Or Are All Disipline And Punishment Issues Dealt With A Regimental Level. I Know In The Days In Africa There Was A Establishment In The Sahara.

Besides those you mention, there was a domaine St.-Jean and FFL prison on the hill from the main FFL camp but no longer in use...apparently one of the punishments was to get prisoners with tied up hands and ankles to skip around a table at whistles blows and to take their scoff when there was a let up in whistles blows...madness way in the past...I wouldn't mind but not whitewashing walls, cleaning slops and pruning flowers nowadays - pretty unmilitary punishment...

[Martin Scott]

The disipline that was administered when I was in was always started by caporals and sergeants, it was the old way, what do you want up in front
of the section commander and get 8 days jail,or do we sort this out here and now and you got a slap. Maybe the generations have changed but I remember one occassion when a legionnaire was really in the wrong and the question was posed what do you want he unwisely choose to go on report and face the company commander. He told a tale of bullying and descrimination against him. Luck wasnt on his side and instead of going to jail
the company commander decided to administer company punishment no 2.
A swift kick up the arse and told to get on with the job that France was paying him to do. Nowdays it seems that being in Metropolitan France the Legion is more in the public eye and has to toe the line a lot more. There is just so much motivation you can give a guy in the way of pressups. I know what I would prefer if I was still in a smack in the gob, and no jail time on my record. There still is the reputation that the Legion is a bunch of thugs, a very highly trained bunch of professionals soldiers is what it is and it is this misunderstanding that leads to the mystic some what, I am sure today as when I was in there are the idiots who feel taht the only way that they are giong to teach recruits is by bulling and beastings, but from my point of view
who can survive a bruised arse, not a bullet in the head, and if that takes a lesson at the end of a fist or boot to get the point across long may it continue.
thats my two cents worth today !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!