My exams at the University are going well. Thanks to all those who wanted to support me morally for those.
As some know, after the event in Paris, I wrote a letter to the General COMLE asking him the permission to come back and wear again, at least the green beret if not the K B, in order to help. In my letter I explained that I could do good secretarial work (which I refused when it was first offered to me). I also said that I would be humble enough to limp without shame where I had been a young healthy REPMAN. The argument was that one more limping secretary also meant one more healthy legionnaire ready to fight the terrorists.
I received an answer on Friday. The answer is very kind, but it is NO.
The General, or the person writing for him, says that they have reviewed my file and that I have been considered medically inapt, and that (despite all the documents I sent them with my letter) they do not believe that my situation has changed enough to allow me to rejoin. They nevertheless thank me for the simple fact that I volunteered ! But they offer no hope of "surexpertise".
There is nevertheless something very positive in the letter. They tell me that I should continue my studies in psychology : the Legion needs psychologists to help debriefing the legionnaires after a mission in order to avoid PTST and other problems which could occur after difficult combats. In the letter they say that although to have military psychologists, they are ready to accept me as a civilian psychologist since I have known the combat sitution and the post combat debriefing. I might even been allowed then to wear a uniform, but without any rank, since I earned the title of Legionnaire and left with honor.
I hesitated before telling you that, but you are my only family since my father expelled me, so I felt I owed you, and all wannabes, the complete truth.
Greetings to all,
loustic
As some know, after the event in Paris, I wrote a letter to the General COMLE asking him the permission to come back and wear again, at least the green beret if not the K B, in order to help. In my letter I explained that I could do good secretarial work (which I refused when it was first offered to me). I also said that I would be humble enough to limp without shame where I had been a young healthy REPMAN. The argument was that one more limping secretary also meant one more healthy legionnaire ready to fight the terrorists.
I received an answer on Friday. The answer is very kind, but it is NO.
The General, or the person writing for him, says that they have reviewed my file and that I have been considered medically inapt, and that (despite all the documents I sent them with my letter) they do not believe that my situation has changed enough to allow me to rejoin. They nevertheless thank me for the simple fact that I volunteered ! But they offer no hope of "surexpertise".
There is nevertheless something very positive in the letter. They tell me that I should continue my studies in psychology : the Legion needs psychologists to help debriefing the legionnaires after a mission in order to avoid PTST and other problems which could occur after difficult combats. In the letter they say that although to have military psychologists, they are ready to accept me as a civilian psychologist since I have known the combat sitution and the post combat debriefing. I might even been allowed then to wear a uniform, but without any rank, since I earned the title of Legionnaire and left with honor.
I hesitated before telling you that, but you are my only family since my father expelled me, so I felt I owed you, and all wannabes, the complete truth.
Greetings to all,
loustic