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Best time of year to join French Foreign Legion

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    #122
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,056 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Get yourself one of those call of duty games. Was good enough for me. Not that I'll be shooting guns any time soon.


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    #123
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    Good idea, also go down to your local pool hall and pick up two pool sticks and you can learn the Krabi-Krabong martial art.

    Not sure what that even is. Hard started team paint balling and have learned a lot about flank maneuvering


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    #124
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    tac foley wrote: »
    If I thought for a second that you were real, I'd pay to come and watch you fly off to wherever it is you think that prospective legionaires go to.


    tac

    It’s in France for the training anyway.


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    #125
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,130 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    Not sure what that even is. Hard started team paint balling and have learned a lot about flank maneuvering

    I'm sure the caporals will enjoy listening to your tactical lectures as you duckwalk around the barracks


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    #126
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    I'm sure the caporals will enjoy listening to your tactical lectures as you duckwalk around the barracks

    Move and fire move and fire. Well that’s what I’ve learned so far as well as camouflage. Think it will give me a good head start against other joiners


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    #127
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,130 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    Move and fire move and fire. Well that’s what I’ve learned so far as well as camouflage. Think it will give me a good head start against other joiners

    i reckon as soon as you tell them of your tactical prowess they wont bother with basic training and send you straight to 3 REP.


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    #128
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    i reckon as soon as you tell them of your tactical prowess they wont bother with basic training and send you straight to 3 REP.

    Nope I will insist on full training. Gaining the experience is key for me. Just want to have a bit of an edge with the paintballing, airsoft, frog lessons and long jogs.


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    #129
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    beertons wrote: »
    Get yourself one of those call of duty games. Was good enough for me. Not that I'll be shooting guns any time soon.

    Yeah those computer games are ideal for weapon identification and I understand some of them have 100% realistic gun shooting sounds so you can identify guns from sound alone.


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    #130
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    This heat is great for dessert like conditions for pre training.


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    #131
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,130 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    This heat is great for dessert like conditions for pre training.

    Come back to us when you have tried to move in 35+ degree heat.


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    #132
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    Spring time is the best. Great time of year to stop and admire the pretty flowers. The Daffodils care not a jot for the folly of war,


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    #133
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    You won't get any dessert in the Legion.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #134
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,130 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Esel wrote: »
    You won't get any dessert in the Legion.

    :D I didnt spot that.


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    #135
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Esel wrote: »
    You won't get any dessert in the Legion.

    You might get just dessert.


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    #136
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    Move and fire move and fire. Well that’s what I’ve learned so far as well as camouflage. Think it will give me a good head start against other joiners

    Career not going too well Alan?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYEG38P_yU


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    #137
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Come back to us when you have tried to move in 35+ degree heat.

    Yeah well doing jogs with a dark gansai on will simulate AT LEAST 40 degrees


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    #138
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    This is it !


    http://m.france24.com/en/20180427-video-reporters-french-foreign-legion-army-military-mali


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    #139
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    tac foley wrote: »
    40C is moderately hot in some places where the FLE operates, especially in Afghanistan.  Mid-morning it's around 40C, but in the later part of the afternoon temperatures up to 50C are commonplace, and with your load- up of around 35 - 40 kg, plus your gun, it's slightly more than most folks have ever encountered before.

    Anyhow, now that I can see that this whole thread is one jolly p*ss-take, rather than anything in the least bit serious, I can leave it to you jokers to get on with Mr Mitty here.

    'Bye now.

    tac

    Yeah I know all that. That’s why extra layers of gansais will help me acclimatize. I think 1 gansai = 5 extra degrees Celsius.

    Btw you are lying about it getting to 50 degrees in Afghanistan ? Why are you lying ? Jealous of the adventure that lies ahead for me I reckon !!!


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    #140
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Jersey is not part of France. If you like jumpers, try the REP.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #141
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    Esel wrote: »
    Jersey is not part of France. If you like jumpers, try the REP.

    Nah the gansai replecate the heat of the dessert


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    #142
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,130 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    Nah the gansai replecate the heat of the dessert

    so you are telling me that the Clancy Brothers were training for the legion all along?

    clancybrothers-69f4f00c28153c727ebc81b71bb971424989c7dd-s6-c30.jpg


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    #143
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    so you are telling me that the Clancy Brothers were training for the legion all along?

    clancybrothers-69f4f00c28153c727ebc81b71bb971424989c7dd-s6-c30.jpg

    Not sure who they are but my gansais are all camouflage colour.


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    #144
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,794 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    It's geansaí.


    If you're going to master the foreign lingos, you might as well start with your own.


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    #145
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    It's geansaí.


    If you're going to master the foreign lingos, you might as well start with your own.

    It’s froggy I must learn


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    #146
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,002 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Max Prophet wrote: »
    Not sure who they are but my gansais are all camouflage colour.

    Did you design your own DPM?

    Not your ornery onager



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    #147
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    Esel wrote: »
    Did you design your own DPM?

    Tie dyed them myself


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    #148
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    The best thing to do is practice ironing and polishing. Ironing the uniforms in the FFL is a real bitch and causes serious grief if not done properly. Same with polishing boots. Reach a high standard before joining and get a great headstart.


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    #149
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    The best thing to do is practice ironing and polishing. Ironing the uniforms in the FFL is a real bitch and causes serious grief if not done properly. Same with polishing boots. Reach a high standard before joining and get a great headstart.

    Thanks. That’s a great thing to know. Will start researching on YouTube and working on that


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    #150
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    selous wrote: »
    Some recruiting offices tell you they don't want you, but it's a little ploy, you have to go back day after day to show you want to enlist.

    Yeah, Meatloaf nearly gave up and missed out.


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    #151
    Max Prophet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Max Prophet


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Yeah, Meatloaf nearly gave up and missed out.

    Ffs awful to miss your dreams. Won’t happen to me


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