Chinese soldier in French Foreign Legion

[Panzer laid]

http://www.ffl.info/temp/zengh.htm

interesting !

[parabellum]

great vid, thanks...

[J-10]

hehe:) , interesting video. He enjoy the life in French Foreign Legion.

[Nickel1106]

great vid, thanks...x2
nice vid
thx man:)

[MMAFan]

Nice
Thanx

[miguelencanarias]

A little off-topic, but one of the least known facts of WWII was the presence of, wait for it, Chinese soldiers in Germany's side in the European theater. According to the highly respected writer and WWII historian Raymond Cartier, there was a Chinese contingent in France, among many other nationalities.

As I said: off-topic.

[bigjeff]

Haha...it sounds interesting.
I can see he's pretty happy with his unit.
Just wanna raise a question,citizenship will be give to the guy who hv served in foreign legion for 5 years?

[redflash]

its not citizenship, its some what like the 'green card' in US.

[AROUETLJ]

No it's citizenship. They can apply for citizenship after five years, or if they're wounded in action.

[rhino]

wow, what an "interesting" video, guy speaks french, wow

[fantassin]

A lot of chineses who enlist in the FFL eventually volunteer to become FFL cooks...just as romanians try to become clerks and englishmen always want to go to the 2°REP.....one of the FFL's facts of life

[moughoun]

A lot of chineses who enlist in the FFL eventually volunteer to become FFL cooks...just as romanians try to become clerks and englishmen always want to go to the 2°REP.....one of the FFL's facts of life
and what do the Irish do Fant?p-)

[fantassin]

They make sure everybody understands they are NOT english.....

;-)

[redflash]

and what do the Irish do Fant?p-)p-) dress up and sing the drunk song...

[moughoun]

They make sure everybody understands they are NOT english.....

;-)
p-), I was watching a documentry a while back on the FFL, and they had 2 Irish guy's in it, including a jungle warfare instructor, who seemed to have watched Apocolypse now a little too much:lol:

[moughoun]

p-) dress up and sing the drunk song...
hey now......that's culturep-)

[fantassin]

When you are based in Régina, in the jungle, for two years, it can get to your head you know...but in fact, the instructors have it really good up there, they have a good location overlooking the river and they live their own life away from the 3°REI in Kourou in peace and happyness...
A WO has done three two-year tours in Régina, it can't be that bad...he also is a graduate of the CIGS brazilian jungle school so he knows his stuff...

[Ericsson]

I know there's a lot of japanese in the french foreign legion
2 REP, 2 REI, 2 REG and so on
but it's the first time i here about chineses.. it's all good


as for the British in the french foreign legion
they have the highest percentage of AWOL
of any group

[fantassin]

There are very few brits in the Légion nowadays...the times of 1/4 of the 2°REP made up of english speakers like in the mid 80s are long gone.

Now it's eastern europe which leads the pack of volunteers.

[Panzer laid]

They make sure everybody understands they are NOT english.....

;-)

HA HA HA ! good one

[Panzer laid]

The rule for citizenship changed I believe !
since 2000 you will have to take French language exam to get your citizenship. You have to get Level 4

[Panzer laid]

hey now......that's culturep-)


Love your picture Moughoun ! u got rest of that clip ?

[Panzer laid]

A lot of chineses who enlist in the FFL eventually volunteer to become FFL cooks...just as romanians try to become clerks and englishmen always want to go to the 2°REP.....one of the FFL's facts of life


hey ! everyone has their speciality ! tell me u don't like the Chinese food !

[AROUETLJ]

I don't like Chinese food.

Fant, if someone joins the Legion, spends five years there, and then applies for and is granted French citizenship, can he then move on to the regular Army, and say, become an officer?