I have an idea for a new thread...

[Jeepdude]

WIKIpedia

Escape to the Legion

Grylls filmed a four-part TV show in 2005, called Escape to the Legion, which followed Grylls and eleven other "recruits" as they took part in a shortened re-creation of the French Foreign Legion's basic desert training in the Sahara. The show was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4,^[22] and in the USA on the Military Channel.^[23]

[Skott5]

WIKIpedia

Escape to the Legion

 

Grylls filmed a four-part TV show in 2005, called Escape to the Legion, which followed Grylls and eleven other "recruits" as they took part in a shortened re-creation of the French Foreign Legion's basic desert training in the Sahara. The show was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4,^[22] and in the USA on the Military Channel.^[23]

 

Ah thanks - my cousin got a call up to the FFL. He's got a French passport, that's probably why.

[Jaguar Shark]

Ah thanks - my cousin got a call up to the FFL. He's got a French passport, that's probably why.

 

Interestingly enough French nationals arn't legally aloud to join, so the Legion recruits them as Canadians or Belgians and forces them to change their name...

Its not an easy life- 5 year minimum contract, brutal training and because youre expendable you get sent to places France is too scared to go themselves [The legion entered Mali 3 weeks before regular French troops were deployed]

 

but I guess it is one hell of an adventure, plus you'll be a proper certified badasshttp://www.blog.flicks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/badass-badge.jpg

[Jaguar Shark]

Spetznaz [Russian Special Forces] vs hostage bus training: using the 'magic stick' an explosive flashbang on a pole

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=elJwuD7pfmc

 

 

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2434138/spetsnaz-magic-stick-vs-bus-o.gif

http://images.wikia.com/battlefield/images/d/d7/Spetsnaz_insignia.jpg

Edited May 27, 2013 by Jaguar Shark

['Dale]

Why is Bear Grylls in that photo ?

 

Def him.

['Dale]

is he not ex military?

 

Yeah.

[Eddy Gordo]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/13d46d09cbb8317111b33a68167a7f92/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o5_250.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/9b5b2b4f862ed5e96c5b80d4afb54a0a/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o3_250.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/92faf4927490197ccb156ff89cd201ef/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o2_400.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b7f2763b0edcb5fb4fd2b3633957c3ce/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o4_500.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/34836c2eef88f1be974073ac128b45b7/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o6_250.jpghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/d4eb7bdb70698627e430a274168ad365/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o7_250.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/dca917438b992b3def8a5abf74220568/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o9_250.jpghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/5bc2003eac6669b8092094d64883aeaa/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o10_250.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec874f5ec3258ea64b2ac822efd4a489/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o8_500.jpg

[Eddy Gordo]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8656236bc296736554bd314d9f9d14a1/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o1_500.jpg

[Kranswurm]

Rory Gallagher

[Stretch]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/13d46d09cbb8317111b33a68167a7f92/tumblr_mn7z8cE0eB1s1qav1o5_250.jpg

 

i am so going to do one of these!

 

its a bit like these

 

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/284386_10150329350176340_5509860_n.jpg

[Tumbleweed]