Posting this here so I can read it later:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables

Quote :

"I. The Farm The word “foreign” in the name French Foreign Legion does not refer to faraway battlegrounds. It refers to the Legion itself, which is a branch of the French Army commanded by French officers but built of volunteers from around the world. Last summer I came upon 20 of them on a grassy knoll on a farm in France near the Pyrenees. They were new recruits sitting back-to-back on two rows of steel chairs. They wore camouflage fatigues and face paint, and held French assault rifles. The chairs were meant to represent the benches in a helicopter flying into action—say, somewhere in Africa in the next few years to come. Two recruits who had been injured while running sat facing forward holding crutches. They were the pilots. Their job was to sit there and endure. The job of the others was to wait for the imaginary touchdown, then disembark from the imaginary helicopter and pretend to secure the imaginary landing zone. Those who charged into the imaginary tail rotor or committed some other blunder would have push-ups to do immediately, counting them off in phonetic French—uh, du, tra, katra, sank. If they ran out of vocabulary, they would have to start again. Eventually the recruits would stage a phased retreat back to their chairs, then take off, fly around for a while, and come in for another dangerous landing. The real lesson here was not about combat tactics. It was about do not ask questions, do not make suggestions, do not even think of that. Forget your civilian reflexes. War has its own logic. Be smart. For you the fighting does not require a purpose. It does not require your allegiance to France. The motto of the Legion is Legio Patria Nostra. The Legion is our fatherland. This means we will accept you. We will shelter you. We may send you out to die. Women are not admitted. Service to the Legion is about simplifying men’s lives. ..."

11/13/2012 1:27:45 PM

I've felt a french girls' foreign legion

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on November 13, 2012 at 1:28 PM. Reason : it was a soggy bog]

11/13/2012 1:28:42 PM

^you mean lesion?

11/13/2012 5:11:14 PM

^

11/13/2012 5:13:54 PM

11/13/2012 6:03:30 PM

these motherfuckers turn you in to the police for 60 years. they havent taken criminals ever. that is total bullshit. they take people who have been CHARGED with crimes in absentia which the napoleonic code forbids and the french don't tolerate among even their allies.

the french foreign legion is run about like a unit of child soldiers in somalia. they get minimal training and equipment and are thrown into lose lose situations against drug lords and 3rd world dictators. they get used to cover up French embarrassments: like capturing documents that show how French organizations have been violating international treaties and laws.

11/13/2012 6:48:20 PM