Le petit caporal
Legionnaire
Nonight is the Shabatt, smuckRemember - GAMELLE tonight big boy ! It's Friday - that day of the week you eat.
Man cannot live on Heineken alone, and rubbing a sacred coin in the hope that a Deliveroo genie will arrive with a pizza.
Hahaha. What a diet. "Lager aux megots a la Nimoise"Nonight is the Shabatt, smuck
Hahaha - c'est vrai?They do not breed the likes of me anymore
Could the medaillon of the Ste Vierge be your participation to St Michel ?
Could the medaillon of the Ste Vierge be your participation to St Michel ?
If so, well done ! Although it wasn't the virgin Mary but a medaillion of St Michel that was handed to the paras...
Wow ! Easy Joe, boy. I nearly spoiled it there. You nearly got me there LPC, that was too damn close. I suppose that I was distracted by the 'H' beer.
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One of my favourite movies. Films of that quality are hard to come by, nowadays.It's all whispers unfortunately because once they go over the Event Horizon through those gates, the void of the Legion's black hole takes over. Radio silence.
It was the same with us in the USMC. Upon arriving there were Phones on the wall with a scrippt next to the phone:It's all whispers unfortunately because once they go over the Event Horizon through those gates, the void of the Legion's black hole takes over. Radio silence.
It was designed to be like that with no external comms for 5-6 months between selection in Aubagne and their regiment.
By the time they do get those privileges they have been through the wringer and they are different men with different priorities.
I agree though, it would be nice to see a prodigy who passed through here show his face in tenue. I seem to remember a few showed up on the old forum - but that was a mad house (and even then you weren't sure if it was true or BS).
Hi Dad! having fun. Love, your son. Can't talk now I've got two drill Sgts breathing down my neck.It was the same with us in the USMC. Upon arriving there were Phones on the wall with a scrippt next to the phone:
I remember that call well all the way back to 9 January 1989Hi Dad! having fun. Love, your son. Can't talk now I've got two drill Sgts breathing down my neck.
Funny hearing a Brit call a section a squad Chas, must be a booty thing I am guessing, you semi matlo pongo mutants lol. Sounds grim I have to say, and the charged you for the stamp. God Save the Queen hey lol. Great times I bet.When I joined all civvy clothes parcelled up and sent home. Issued ill fitting denims with buttons to clip on. Then straight to the barber's shop for nearly a 'Boule a Zero'. Then a meal and finally our Nissen hut accommodation. 12 double bunks with lockers. Heads at one end immaculate. In the centre of the hut was a pot bellied stove and coal bucket. Both unused even in winter and always burnished. No outside communications available or allowed. However after Sunday church parade our Squad Sgt instructed all to write home to our darling mummies ! He then collected them and demanded the stamp money . For 6 weeks no shore leave until we looked almost passable in uniform.
In my day Squads RM. Now recruits go to what is called a numbered Troop. We even had Platoons in Commando Brigade. Eg Machine Gun Pln. My recruit squad had 34 members. Of course this was in the day of Noah's Ark.Funny hearing a Brit call a section a squad Chas, must be a booty thing I am guessing, you semi matlo pongo mutants lol. Sounds grim I have to say, and the charged you for the stamp. God Save the Queen hey lol. Great times I bet.
Those are Marine Terms RhodieFunny hearing a Brit call a section a squad Chas, must be a booty thing I am guessing, you semi matlo pongo mutants lol. Sounds grim I have to say, and the charged you for the stamp. God Save the Queen hey lol. Great times I bet.
A Section would be roughly equal to a PlatoonFunny hearing a Brit call a section a squad Chas, must be a booty thing I am guessing, you semi matlo pongo mutants lol. Sounds grim I have to say, and the charged you for the stamp. God Save the Queen hey lol. Great times I bet.