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Gav wrote:Bear Grylls and a bunch of English dropouts go through The French foreign legion basic training. Looks pretty tough.

I'd like to try the physical side to see if I could hack it but there's just one problem. I don't like being told what to do.

This is the first part. The links to the other three are to the side on youtube.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uElZwBzYzdI">YouTube Link</a>

Gav wrote:I'd like to try the physical side to see if I could hack it but there's just one problem. I don't like being told what to do.

Arrival 1 to 7 days in a Foreign Legion Information Center. Reception, information, and terms of contract. Afterwards transferred to Paris, Foreign Legion Recruitment Center.
Pre-selection 1 to 7 days in a Foreign Legion Recruitment Center (Paris). Confirmation of motivation, initial medical check-up, finalising enlistment papers and signing of 5-year service contract.
Selection 7 to 14 days in the Recruitment and Selection Center in Aubagne. Psychological and personality tests, logic tests (no education requirements), medical exam, physical condition tests,
motivation and security interviews. Confirmation or denial of selection.
Passed Selection Signing and handing-over of the five-year service contract. Incorporation into the Foreign Legion as a trainee.
Basic training
Légionnaires training in French Guiana

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 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 with 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.

tough old man wrote:FFL "Boot Camp" is not conducted in the desert. Its in France, in the hills at Formiguière in the French Pyrenees and at Castelnaudary. It is currently 15 weeks (was 11) and is currently little different than American services basic. There is a lot more interaction with instructors and a greater exchange of ideas due to the backgrounds of a lot of the recruits. As long as you spoke in a respectful tone most discussions were allowed.