Basic Training

Basic training is conducted in the 4th Foreign Regiment with a duration of 15 weeks:
-Initial training of 4 weeks – initiation to military lifestyle; outdoor and field activities; learning Foreign Legion traditions, learning the French language.
-March Képi Blanc – a 60–75 mile (100–120 km) march in full kit (From Perpignan on a return to the Basic Training camp at Castelnaudary), and graduation ceremony – 3 days to complete.
-Technical and practical training (alternating wit

h barracks and field training) – 3 weeks.
-Mountain training (Chalet at Formiguière in the French Pyrenees) – 1-week.
-Technical and practical training (alternating barracks and field training) – 2 weeks.
-Examinations and obtaining of the elementary technical certificate (CTE) – 1-week.
-March ending basic training – 1-week.
-Light vehicle / trucks school – 1-week.
-Return to Aubagne before reporting to the assigned regiment – 1-week.

Where to enlist ?

Enlistment takes place in mainland France only. Travel and visa expenses (if needed) are candidate's responsibility. Opening Hours 24 hours and 7 days a week


-Paris
  Lille
 Nantes
 Strasbourg
-Aubagne
 Bordeaux
 Lyon
 Marseille
 Nice
 Perpignan
 Toulouse

Legionnaire's films

Legionnaire is a 1998 war film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell and Jim Carter. The film was filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Plot 

Alain Lefevre is a French boxer in 1920's Marseilles, France. Alain is forced by local crime boss Lucien Galgani to take a dive in a fight. It turns out that Galgani's girlfriend Katrina is also Alain's ex-fiancé whom he left standing at the alter. But Katrina forgives Alain, and the two hatch a plan to run off to America together. Alain doesn't take a dive in the fight, but just as the escape plan is about to succeed, Alain's friend gets killed, and Katrina is captured by Galgani's men. But Alain has shot and killed Galgani's brother. Desperately needing a new escape plan, Alain signs up for the French Foreign Legion, and is shipped to Africa to help defend French territory against a native Arab rebellion. Along the way, Alain meets some new friends, including an African American who has fled injustice in the United States, a former British Army Major with a gambling problem, and a naive Italian man who wishes to impress his girl back home by returning as a hero. But things will not be easy. The only real way to escape from the Legion is to survive the term of service, and the rebels have them outnumbered. And Galgani has sent his hired thugs into the Legion as well, to find Alain and get revenge for the death of Galgani's brother.

What is French Foreign Legion?

 The French Foreign Legion (FFL),(French: Légion étrangère, L.E.) is a military service wing of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. Commanded by French officers, it is also open to French citizens, who amounted to 24% of the recruits as of 2007.

 The Foreign Legion is today known as a unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps. As its men come from different countries with different cultures, this is a way to strengthen them enough to work as a team. Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but also very stressful psychologically.

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