French foreign legion

french foreign legion
any former legionaires here Veeky Forums?
i am gonna have a crack at it next year

give me a FFL routine fitizens

hope you like arab and nigger dicks

idgaf

Worked with these guys for two weeks, unless you want to get fucked by gay Samoan guys don't do it. Always getting injured on parachute jumps, shitty equipment, shitty living standards, no one gives a fuck about each other, and all the cultures end up sticking together just like prison

>Worked with these guys for two weeks
Uh huh. Which ones?

Got medically rejected from the British Army, going to go to Lille in a few weeks and try join.

Pretty sure that I read Germans make up 20-30%, Frenchmen another 20-30% and the rest Eastern/Western Euros. Alos heard it's pretty racist towards niggers/Indians.

You're talking chit

Sitting on an OP that FFL happens to come through sometimes doesn't count as "Worked with."

All I want to do is join the British army and do pic related but I've failed the medical so the ffl looks like the only option

Yeah so you are pretty sure gonna fail the FFL medicals too faggot. I heard they rejects people very easily, depens on doctor and how u can explain your autism levels and old injuries to him/her.

Why the fuck would you want to do that?

You realise the FFL is not even comparable to the BA in terms of culture and deployment? There's no ceremonial bollocks apart from Bastille day

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thats a croat senpai

Compared to the British Army they're lax on medicals. I got deferred for having a broken toe 4 months before applying, had to appeal it which took 2 months then eventually went to Lichfield ADSC and got deferred for having inadequate hamstring flexibility.

I know, named it wrong or it was named like that when i saved it.

Dunno how legion tests you then. Just be sure to learn some nice little story why u didnt want to apply british army, saying that u didnt get in there will certainly give you shitty odds getting in FFL.

You sound like a fucking spack m8, stop LARPing you clueless mong.

The fuck you are talking about? Go fuck yourself nigger.

Do you want to a be an assassin or something? That's the kind of work they do. When someone doesn't want to touch a shitpile they send you to do it.

I have read the blog of a former FFL guy from my country who now works as a security specialist and I have also read some interviews with various dudes.
He killed so much based on mere order that he can't even admit that he is a killer. He can't rationalize it, the way he speaks revolves around this break in his psyche.

They'll break you harder than anything then send you to wash of entire villages with no witnesses from the map.

I would think twice to compare FFL to a regular army where usually there are so many opportunities in both combat and non-combat roles.

Don't throw away your youth and humanity just so you get into something extreme or to look cool. Believe me you won't be feeling cool soon after you join... even if you're a typical tough guy or bully.

Develop yourself, always improve something and challenge yourself outside of your comfort zone steadily, but still maintain a good progress. Don't go muhuuuu let's do something extreme like the FFL. People there age 10 years in 1.

no u

Isn't the FFL basically the same as the French Army now? Been totally modernised.

Sorry, I don't know about the current trends. My information is basically from around 5-7 years ago. I should have stated that.

Despite that I would still be careful and well informed before getting into something with a past like that. I would suggest you to read about it and try to check it out interviews, especially ones where you can see the guy.

>Oh no, I shot some apes who would have skinned us alive if I didn't, I am literally Hitler!

what are FFL's fitness standards?

>Alos heard it's pretty racist towards niggers/Indians.
I think some people get that idea from certain Breacon Becons style deaths. The reality is a lot of French dudes are black, a lot of people from the French speaking world are black, they tend to do very well in part because speaking French is so important to promotion. A lot of what you'd call "Indian" are also French speakers.

pretty high. like ranger tier

so i have myopia both my eyes are like -5 dioptres and without glasses or lenses i basically can't see my hands clearly let alone aim a gun
i'm pretty sure i would get rejected but how do they treat people that have had their eyes corrected surgically? laser or permanent lens or something like that, i'm not super informed about eye surgery but i might consider doing that in the future because it's a pain in the ass living like this

>You realise the FFL is not even comparable to the BA in terms of culture and deployment? There's no ceremonial bollocks apart from Bastille day
They have several traditions including making little Nativity scenes around Christmas. The march is at a totally different pace along with marching songs. There's an absolute heap of bullshit like that.

As far as deployment goes you're just plain talking bolocks.

The slighty odd things you get measured on are eyesight (you lose points depending on things like color blindness and diopter strength of glasses, and that can make things like 2REP inaccessible. If you've got pretty bad uncorrected eyesight they just won't take you), and they can outright reject you based on missing teeth. I can't remember the rule breakers on teeth tho.

British Army won't take you for really minor problems. Also you can go down the NCO route and from there join the French military. A lot of Brits choose to not do that tho.

Phone/email and ask. Most likely because of nightvision problems you would he inelligible in any military in the world. However, I believe there are procedures that are far less prone to the nightvision problems or mitigate them completely at the expense of longer recovery times.

what are these night vision problems?

I believe that with some of the more popular procedures you get night blindness. Some people complain about it regarding driving. I think as well that the RAF used to outright say no to laser eye surgery because of this, but I believe they've revised that.

I'm pretty sure -5.0 is too far from good to get in at any rate. You should be able to find out online tho, it's one of the things that put me off joining ~10 years ago. My eyesight would have prevented me from getting into the elite shit.

Lol ur full of shit, ffl does nothing, maybe he will see some gours in gvayana or chad and thats that. Patroling streets or chasing illegal miners.

Ffl is boring as shit nowdays.

there aren't two websites that say the same thing about eye surgery and it doesn't help a bit
i'm sure i would be rejected because uncorrected i'm completely useless outdoors

my problem is not only not being able to join the military, it's affecting my life. i'm a woodcutter and i'm fine with glasses but the problem is that after 2 or 3 months of sawdust and dirt they get scratched, even the quality ones and then i'm back at the start because i can't see through them and i'm spending a lot of money buying new lenses all the time. night vision is important too

i was thinking of getting intraocular lenses because they don't remove anything from my eye and if they don't work out they are removable at least while i can't undo laser

If intraocular are the eye deforming ones I know (of) people that have joined the most stringent military orgs as far as eyesight goes using them and just didn't tell anybody. Don't ask don't tell. Maybe do ask and still don't tell.

They go through all your personal belongings when you try to join the FFL though. So how you'd ever sneak it in I don't know.

The FFL surpasses being a meme and is a straight up scam. It primarily exists to have a frontline of bullet catchers whose parents aren't French voters who would vote against the current crook in power if their kid died in bumfuckistan. There's barely any actual discipline, the only camraderie is between the different ethnic and language groups who might as well be prison gangs and have about the same level of regard for each other, and most of them discharge with the French skills of a kid who just passed his first HS French semester with a C. But if outdated tactics and slumming with third world criminals and mafioso is your thing, then Honneur et Fidélité, mon ami!
>P.S. in case you're an American and therefore didn't already think of it, the U.S. Marines accept foreign volunteers, and have something actually resembling the ideal of martial brotherhood you're probably fantasizing about.

*not an American

Good luck, OP. I plan on having a go in a few years myself – by at least when I’m twenty-six.

I plan on going this year or next, but maybe I won't get in since I'll be almost 30. There's a routine on Cervens to prepare for it.

intraoculars are the ones they use in cataract surgery, they take the cataract out and slip an artificial lens in, it's a half hour operation the simplest and cheapest one
in my case they would just add a synthetic lens under the natural one without removing anything, if it doesn't work properly it is reversible and can be taken out
recovery is faster than any other method and i think it's unnoticeable unless they specifically look for it, there's nothing to sneak in your belongings because the lens stays in your eye for life, and it's not supposed to deteriorate

i'm not sure about any solution, having bad eyes will always be a pain in the ass whatever i do
i wonder what my life would be if i were born when there was no modern medicine or if glasses weren't as available. maybe i wouldn't be this near sighted because i wouldn't have spent any time in front of a computer but i've heard of people back in the day that could not distinguish a horse from a man and their life must have been miserable

You want to be a ceremonial soldier, so you're joining the FFL?

Are you fucked in the head? The foreign legion is the cannon fodder infantry they send in when they don't want to risk the actual french infantry.

You're stupid as shit and they'll probably eat you alive

>The FFL surpasses being a meme and is a straight up scam. It primarily exists to have a frontline of bullet catchers
>The Marine core surpasses being a meme and is a straight up scam. It primarily exists to have a frontline of bullet catchers

I suspect that you would get in and no one would care/notice if you never told them.

If you're going to do it anyway for the woodcutting, do it and try to join the legion. If it's no good they'll just send you back.