Kill bad guys legally and often: Join the French Foreign Legion

Should the US have a version of the French Foreign Legion?

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Dutch Uncle

Dutch Uncle

* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
The US military is governed by the Constitution of the United States of America. The French military are governed by similar rules and limitations. The French Foreign Legion is not. US and French soldiers don't sign up to become world police or nation builders much less expendable meat on the hoof.

Legionnaires are under no such limitation. They know they are expendable. Unlike Blackwater or other mercenary/private army assholes, the Legionnaires, like all national militaries, are soldiers governed by law, regulations and strict discipline for their five year contracts.

What's different about them is they join knowing they are expendable; that they will fight bad guys wherever the French decide to go with little to no input from voters.

People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/
French Foreign Legion: Entry Requirements
What DOES matter to join the Legion
  • to be a man between 17.5 and 39.5 years – read more here:
  • Age limits for joining the French Foreign Legion
  • to have a valid ID (Identity document)
  • ID Card or a Passport for recruits from the European Union (EU)
  • PASSPORT for recruits from all over the world
  • to have a birth certificate verified copy (translation into English or French languages prefered)
  • – confirmation of the certificate’s copy not older than 6 months while enlisting
  • – you are allowed to enlist in the Legion without the certificate as well, nonetheless, the document will facilitate your engagement
  • to be NOT wanted by Interpol (NO murders, NO drug trafficking…)
  • to be physically fit to serve at all times and in all places around the world, for at least 5 years
  • to have BMI between 20 and 30 – read more:
  • Height and weight requirements for joining the French Foreign Legion
  • to be able to write and read in your native language


What does NOT matter to join the Legion
  • your citizenship (if you are a Brazilian, Indian, Russian, Japanese citizen etc…) doesn’t matter
  • your race origin doesn’t matter
  • your religion doesn’t matter
  • your knowledge / ignorance of the French language doesn’t matter
  • your educational background doesn’t matter
  • your qualifications doesn’t matter
  • your social status doesn’t matter
  • your professional status doesn’t matter
  • your marriage / marital status or family status doesn’t matter
  • your previous military or non-military background doesn’t matter
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What the US needs, IMHO, is their own version of Expendables. An American Volunteer Force under the DOD, led by US military officer volunteers but which can take over or move in wherever US military forces cannot or should not go. This would allow all those with some aggression to workout a healthy outlet...not to mention all of those unemployed illegals. Win-win! :thup:


People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/


https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables
THE EXPENDABLES
...The Legion can be like that for some. Currently it employs 7,286 enlisted men, including non-commissioned officers. Over just the past two decades they have been deployed to Bosnia, Cambodia, Chad, both Congos, Djibouti, French Guiana, Gabon, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, Rwanda, and Somalia. Recently they have fought in Afghanistan, as members of the French contingent. There is no other force in the world today that has known so much war for so long. A significant number of the men are fugitives from the law, living under assumed names, with their actual identities closely protected by the Legion. People are driven to join the Legion as much as they are drawn to it. That went for every recruit I met on the farm. Altogether there were 43, ranging in age from 19 to 32. There had been 48, but 5 had deserted. They came from 30 countries. Only a third of them spoke some form of French....
 
Not a bad idea. Maybe offer it to illegals who get caught with the promise of citizenship if they last for the five years. But who funds it?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Not a bad idea. Maybe offer it to illegals who get caught with the promise of citizenship if they last for the five years. But who funds it?
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It would solve several issues. Agreed on illegals and anyone else seeking citizenship.

Funding would be offset by downsizing the regular forces....and perhaps a little alternative revenue streaming from selling off conquests.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
It would solve several issues. Agreed on illegals and anyone else seeking citizenship.

Funding would be offset by downsizing the regular forces....and perhaps a little alternative revenue streaming from selling off conquests.
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When not even close to Rome, still act like the Romans! Great plan. lol
 
Dutch Uncle said:
The US military is governed by the Constitution of the United States of America. The French military are governed by similar rules and limitations. The French Foreign Legion is not. US and French soldiers don't sign up to become world police or nation builders much less expendable meat on the hoof.

Legionnaires are under no such limitation. They know they are expendable. Unlike Blackwater or other mercenary/private army assholes, the Legionnaires, like all national militaries, are soldiers governed by law, regulations and strict discipline for their five year contracts.

What's different about them is they join knowing they are expendable; that they will fight bad guys wherever the French decide to go with little to no input from voters.

People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/


What the US needs, IMHO, is their own version of Expendables. An American Volunteer Force under the DOD, led by US military officer volunteers but which can take over or move in wherever US military forces cannot or should not go. This would allow all those with some aggression to workout a healthy outlet...not to mention all of those unemployed illegals. Win-win! :thup:


People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/


https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables
THE EXPENDABLES
...The Legion can be like that for some. Currently it employs 7,286 enlisted men, including non-commissioned officers. Over just the past two decades they have been deployed to Bosnia, Cambodia, Chad, both Congos, Djibouti, French Guiana, Gabon, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, Rwanda, and Somalia. Recently they have fought in Afghanistan, as members of the French contingent. There is no other force in the world today that has known so much war for so long. A significant number of the men are fugitives from the law, living under assumed names, with their actual identities closely protected by the Legion. People are driven to join the Legion as much as they are drawn to it. That went for every recruit I met on the farm. Altogether there were 43, ranging in age from 19 to 32. There had been 48, but 5 had deserted. They came from 30 countries. Only a third of them spoke some form of French....
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This is a genuinely psychotic suggestion, so the speed at which Oom's mind is now deteriorating becomes a genuine concern.
A militia of globally displaced miscreants now sounds like a great idea to him. The Montana militia and the like aren't pathetic enough.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
The US military is governed by the Constitution of the United States of America. The French military are governed by similar rules and limitations. The French Foreign Legion is not. US and French soldiers don't sign up to become world police or nation builders much less expendable meat on the hoof.

Legionnaires are under no such limitation. They know they are expendable. Unlike Blackwater or other mercenary/private army assholes, the Legionnaires, like all national militaries, are soldiers governed by law, regulations and strict discipline for their five year contracts.

What's different about them is they join knowing they are expendable; that they will fight bad guys wherever the French decide to go with little to no input from voters.

People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/


What the US needs, IMHO, is their own version of Expendables. An American Volunteer Force under the DOD, led by US military officer volunteers but which can take over or move in wherever US military forces cannot or should not go. This would allow all those with some aggression to workout a healthy outlet...not to mention all of those unemployed illegals. Win-win! :thup:


People can still join: http://foreignlegion.info/joining/


https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables
THE EXPENDABLES
...The Legion can be like that for some. Currently it employs 7,286 enlisted men, including non-commissioned officers. Over just the past two decades they have been deployed to Bosnia, Cambodia, Chad, both Congos, Djibouti, French Guiana, Gabon, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, Rwanda, and Somalia. Recently they have fought in Afghanistan, as members of the French contingent. There is no other force in the world today that has known so much war for so long. A significant number of the men are fugitives from the law, living under assumed names, with their actual identities closely protected by the Legion. People are driven to join the Legion as much as they are drawn to it. That went for every recruit I met on the farm. Altogether there were 43, ranging in age from 19 to 32. There had been 48, but 5 had deserted. They came from 30 countries. Only a third of them spoke some form of French....
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I need to mull over this idea for a couple of days


I’ll try


It’s an interesting idea


War is going more cyber


And army of experts is needed beyond what we we have


Our expert are amazing now


But more is needed
 
evince said:
I need to mull over this idea for a couple of days


I’ll try


It’s an interesting idea


War is going more cyber


And army of experts is needed beyond what we we have


Our expert are amazing now


But more is needed
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Experts are one thing. I'm talking about US forces ending up in body bags. Crying mothers and young wives being handed a US flag "from a grateful nation" tend to dampen the enthusiasm to kill bad guys.

BTW, the French Foreign Legion has low standards for entry. Their webpage even has amusing Tattoo standards:

http://foreignlegion.info/french-foreign-legion-tattoo-policy/
Banned or inappropriate tattoos for enlistment in the Foreign Legion:

  1. the Nazi and racist tattoo (Nazi-swastika, A.Hitler, Ku-Klux-Klan for example)
  2. a stupid tattoo on your face/arms, even if it seems to be small
  3. (if you have a little drop near your eye, you can try to join; if you have a vagina tattoo between your eyes or a penis tattoo on your arm, stay at home)
  4. a larger tattoo across your face (a genuine tribal tattoo is allowed in some cases)

Be aware, as a legionnaire, you will represent the Foreign Legion during your service years. So, if you have a tattoo, it is better to look at it and ask yourself: “Will my tattoo harm the Legion in public?” If your answer is NO, you can try to join in…
 
evince said:
That makes sense to me
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Agreed. The nation needs a defense force, but, as the wise man said, "Some people need killing."

A volunteer force would cost relatively little and no show a bunch of crying widows on the television.
 
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