Hi Capgros, can you post Warren's experience for us? Thanks.
https://cervens.net/legionbbs123/sh...the-story-of-Warren-P&highlight=warren+p+back
« Most importantly I met two English teachers from Canada at O'Malley's at the old port in Marseille and we got drunk and had at it in my room at the Raddison on Friday night. One of the most memorable times of my life. Also I thought I even came across Cpl K there but didn't want to be a weirdo asking a random guy if he was from Cervens. There were some guys from the REP there, one from GCP he said, he even offered to buy me a drink, very nice guy. He asked to me to introduce him to one of the girls I was with (this was before me and the girls went back to my place) and I gladly did so.
So let's rewind back to my time in Aubagne. It is nothing I imagined it to be. Upon entering the preselection the Cpl told us to empty our bags on the table. Me being prior military did it in a hurry and he stopped me and told me do it with no stress. Listen I won't go into the testing because it's all been said here.
I will say this : all ex-legionnaires, I highly respect what you have done and what you stand for.
However, nowadays all the really good guys get cut and the shit bags are kept. We are talking about the worse of the worse, the thieves and mongols. I would never serve in combat with those selected (except for Pongo who I will discuss later).
I had a run in with a pissed cook, he was angry that 6 of us doing
corvée decided to put our jackets back on so he pushes me and no one else. Fine I let it go; however he pushed me again and that is when I got into a fighting stance with my fist up ready to kill my first legionnaire and eat his fecking heart. He must have seen it in my eyes because he backed out of the room yelling “your muscles don't scare me, you have tattoos, I have tattoosâ€. Very fun time in retrospect.
I would like to touch on sanitation. The same guys washing the dishes are the same guys who are wiping their arses with their hands because they have no toilet paper left since the Legion gives everyone one roll for three weeks. They are also the deadly ill 3rd world country people that wiping their bodily fluids with their hands and then drying the dishes.
In my time at Aubagne I met 3 people from Cervens.
John, one of the greatest fecking guys there in Aubagne and the Legion truly missed out on something special. Feck their psycho-technic test designed for left sided dominant brains. John is clearly right side dominant with very well thought out decisions, discretion and judgement. I hope he achieves whatever he wants in life because he truly deserves it.
Pongo, one of the funniest guys I came across in a long time. Absolutely wonderous to be around. If the military life doesn't work out for him he can surely make money in comedy.
Cock, fecking weirdo who walked around speaking Spanish and pretending like he wasn't American.
Last I knew Cock and Pongo were commissioned.
So what happened to me?? I passed every single test and the 'Gestapo' just had a great time discussing Ranger school and war with me. He told me he would be promoted to adjutant the following week and he was pretty excited. He also wagered me 100 euros. He said being a SGT in the Army then being the director of security really put me at a disadvantage because I was used to giving orders and not taking them. So he told me that if I was commissioned I would come back to Aubagne at the completion of one year to collect 100 euro, but if were selected and decided to go civil I would owe him 100 euros. I went civil the next day. The recruiting Adjudant and the Captain did everything they could to keep me, but I truly did not want it. When the Captain asked the reason, I told him that the intelligence and ethic levels of those being selected disturbed me. He said the civilians ran commission now and it was true. However he felt like it was just hard for me adjusting to the culture being American. He then stated that due to my background he would not close the Legion door to me and would give me a year to reflect.
So, I got “
Inapte temporaire†for 1 year. Those of you who said I wouldn't make it, cheers, you were right. »