Hello everyone,
I’m an American looking to join the French Foreign Legion within the next year. I have a complicated past that is beginning to make life for me in my homeland unbearable. I am looking to start a new life in a new country where I don’t know anyone. I have always wanted to be a soldier. I was enlisted in the Army, however, I was told by my significant other at the time that I would be single if I left for basic. I did the stupid thing and stayed. I didn’t go to basic but I ended up being labeled a deserter anyway. It makes me sick to have that title. Incomprehensibly sick. As such, I see the Legion as a final chance at personal redemption. My timeline is as far out as it is because I want to make sure I’m as squared away as possible before I go. My past has me worried. No criminal record or anything but complicating factors as I said. I want to do everything I can do (I understand that may not be much) to make sure I get the honor of being selected. I look forward to spending time perusing this forum and hearing for those of you current in service to the Legion.
Thank you for the opportunity to join the forum.
Respectfully,
Fresh-Meat
I’m an American looking to join the French Foreign Legion within the next year. I have a complicated past that is beginning to make life for me in my homeland unbearable. I am looking to start a new life in a new country where I don’t know anyone. I have always wanted to be a soldier. I was enlisted in the Army, however, I was told by my significant other at the time that I would be single if I left for basic. I did the stupid thing and stayed. I didn’t go to basic but I ended up being labeled a deserter anyway. It makes me sick to have that title. Incomprehensibly sick. As such, I see the Legion as a final chance at personal redemption. My timeline is as far out as it is because I want to make sure I’m as squared away as possible before I go. My past has me worried. No criminal record or anything but complicating factors as I said. I want to do everything I can do (I understand that may not be much) to make sure I get the honor of being selected. I look forward to spending time perusing this forum and hearing for those of you current in service to the Legion.
Thank you for the opportunity to join the forum.
Respectfully,
Fresh-Meat