Joining the French Legion

Paladin Solo said:
So, would they admit a known terrorist? Or at least, without knowing it was one?
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If they didn't know he was a terrorist...Hello...

That's like saying "would they admit a known murderer if they didn't know he was a murderer?"

Let's split it up:

1) Would they admit a terrorist not knowing it's a terrorist. Of course, but so would any army. I mean you don't know.

2) Would they admit a known terrorist? Prolly not, the French aren't too kind to terrorists.
 
The Legion is pretty famous for taking in soldiers that have left other armies, and sometimes being a haven for criminals.

It was actually an interesting idea. A corp of foreign expatriots, their backgrounds generally ignored, who had come to fight, get away from their old world, and become frenchmen. A lot of people trying to escape. After World War 2 they took in a lot of former German soldiers.

Also this was mentioned in the movie The Savior where a guy and his buddy hide out in the Legion for a short while.

I would add that the French have a history of killing terrorists.

There is some great history on the Legion, although it has not always done so well.
Read up on it first.
 
Most probably you will enter live combat, but what other purpose does a soldier have..

Avoiding the police does work till a certain point. While applying the Legion will check up on your past (with for instance interpol) and major fellonies will not be disregarded. Murder will not get you in the Legion.
 
i'd have a problem joining anything with the word "french" in the title.

I'm forced to wear a beret as it is, last thing i'd need is one of those gay looking french beret's.
 
NgInE wrote:
killing people for a living = gay
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My thoughts exactly. Maybe replacing "gay" with "sadistic SOB government puppy" would fit in better.
 
The French Foreign Legion sounds a good thing until you realize that it's what they use when the politicians in Paris don't want to risk French lives (beyond the officers, of course). So whenever there's a high risk operation what do they do? Send in the Legion of course.

Granted, the Legion has become more professional and elite these days, it's not like 10-20 years when they would prey on athletic looking people in bars, get them drunk and then when you woke up you had signed up for five years. Once you're there, regardless of where you do your basic training, leaving isn't really an option, but at least now you have the option of not signing on after the training.
 
Rightness, I too have a plan of taking a plane to america, and then survive there somehow. You know, coast-to-coast hobo trip... But still, please don't join the French Legion? I heard that convicted criminals receive full amnesty if they join the legion, and... well... Probably the most violent, toughest military training around...

If you compared that with your fallout XP example, it would give you lots of XP, increase your strength and endurance plus some stats, BUT it might just give you the "berserk" perk and -200 karma...
 
Lord Terrible wrote:
If you compared that with your fallout XP example, it would give you lots of XP, increase your strength and endurance plus some stats, BUT it might just give you the "berserk" perk and -200 karma...
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Plus, -5 INT and a "brainwashed brute" perk ;)
 
The Dude said:
I think helping people won't be so fulfilling for me. But off course, I studie International Development and I know our help is most of the time not doing many good, although it is meant well.

And environmental projects... with those greenpeace dude's...? yeah, right. NOT. They do some good, but they also screwed up too many times. And real bad also. I just hope the US will agree on the Kyoto Protocol. But this is getting offtopic.
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I think you are right that a lot of projects in the past haven't worked out. There is a good book, "The Road to Hell" by Michael Maren, which is about NGOs and how they screw things up that should be read by any international activist.

But at the same time I also know of projects that have been very useful. Consider for instance the project to provide meals for school children. The idea here is that every child is able to get a meal at school. This has two benefits- (1) For many kids this is the only meal they will get, so a good meal means they don't starve or suffer malnutrition. (2) By giving them meals you get them to school, and thereby you avoid illiteracy and uneducation. As many of today's militants come from illiterate or uneducated populations.

Another example would be the small amounts of foreign aid were used to drop the AIDs infection rate in Uganda from roughly 30% to about 6%. That's pretty remarkable stuff.

So I wouldn't completely go against the idea that international developmental work is useless. True, a lot of the money has, traditionally, gone back to US corporations. But a lot of that money also does a lot of good abroad.
 
welsh said:
A corp of foreign expatriots, their backgrounds generally ignored, who had come to fight, get away from their old world, and become frenchmen. A lot of people trying to escape. After World War 2 they took in a lot of former German soldiers.
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Yes, indeed. This is why Dien Bien Phu is also known as "The Swansong of the S.S.", since apparently quite a few soldiers from it ended up in the Foreign Legion.

OTB
 
I just finished Focault's Pendulum a little while ago.....a minor yet important character, a Colonel in the Fascist army, joins the Legion.

Though I doubt you belive that Christanity is of Aryan origin......
 
Actually, I was looking at the Columbia History of the World. It seems that Christianity grew when the apostles, Paul especially, started lecturing at the jewish temples. A lot of these temples had folks coming to visit that weren't jewish and weren't fitting in- probably because they weren't the children of jews. When they learned that non-jews could be members of the Christian church they converted over.
 
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