Greetings and salutations,
After I believe a week from coming back from Caylus we had a regimental exercise. This is where every company goes out to train Formation movements and combat. This was a really good experience for practicing what I learned at the farm. Basically every two legionnaires are assigned a new corporal that is testing for his new rank. And ever two Corp. Is assigned a sgt in training to be the chef the groupe (squad leader).
You go out and get told what to do and what to attack and where to marche, for 10 days. Each day is spent marching 10 to 15k Tactically. It's a real work out running from Bush to Bush crawling through every single thorned bush that your corporal can make you go through. It's like France is trying to kill you with its fauna and flora. I slept on poison ivy, ants nest, just terrible places to sleep. But I still found myself enjoying every minute... Mostly.
There's attacks at night, during the day, casualties, surveillance it is all so much to learn but when I got to the REP I found that I knew alot of what we were doing. For that I'm greatful.
Again we got drunk most days true to our form. Luckily I got some real good leaders so I learned alot.
Cheers.
B. B. CODY
After I believe a week from coming back from Caylus we had a regimental exercise. This is where every company goes out to train Formation movements and combat. This was a really good experience for practicing what I learned at the farm. Basically every two legionnaires are assigned a new corporal that is testing for his new rank. And ever two Corp. Is assigned a sgt in training to be the chef the groupe (squad leader).
You go out and get told what to do and what to attack and where to marche, for 10 days. Each day is spent marching 10 to 15k Tactically. It's a real work out running from Bush to Bush crawling through every single thorned bush that your corporal can make you go through. It's like France is trying to kill you with its fauna and flora. I slept on poison ivy, ants nest, just terrible places to sleep. But I still found myself enjoying every minute... Mostly.
There's attacks at night, during the day, casualties, surveillance it is all so much to learn but when I got to the REP I found that I knew alot of what we were doing. For that I'm greatful.
Again we got drunk most days true to our form. Luckily I got some real good leaders so I learned alot.
Cheers.
B. B. CODY