How does the 2 REP (FFL) compare to the British Paras?

[LepetitCaporal]

The name of the regiment that srecieved the kamakazi attak
(french Paras) ?
When I enlisted... would take a year to write

 

[LepetitCaporal]

The birth of Parkour?

Paris in the ghettos
I kid you not

 

[CptDanjou]

The birth of Parkour?

What you cant see in the photo is a case of Kronenbourg on the opposite balcony making the jump worth the risk.

 

[par avion]

Interesting video on YouTube which seems to be a ceremony in honour of the French dead in Indo-China. Its nice to see them remembered considering it was so long ago and the campaign was fought by French Regulars, Algerians, Senagelese, FFL and local Vietnemese.

The FFL is represented obviously, both in the honour guards and the old veterans.

The French do ceremonial events like this pretty well. I notice the band plays 'Robert the Bruce' at about 6.00. @fantassin who is the bloke with the beard in civies reviewing the troops and talking to the veterans? and the cute chick doing the speech at 18.35 next to the two old blokes?

 

[par avion]

Paris in the ghettos
I kid you not

Developed as a way of escaping from les flics?

 

[LepetitCaporal]

Not far from the truth...will try to remember the name of the film made about parkour starring some of the original creators once I sober up some

 

[par avion]

Not far from the truth...will try to remember the name of the film made about parkour starring some of the original creators once I sober up some

So in about six months time Jock!

 

[foxs_marine]

Not far from the truth...will try to remember the name of the film made about parkour starring some of the original creators once I sober up some

Channel Four did 2 films about Parkour. The first one (whose title I've forgotten) is a general history, the second is called "Jump London" & features a group of French teens at a variety of London locations doing their stuff.
ETA or was it "Run London"?

 

[LepetitCaporal]

So the Legionnaires and Caporaux are forbidden to use the Réfectoire / Ordinaire (JRM) for their Dinner? That seems to me to be illegal. As I understand it, the Junior Ranks’ Mess has an allocated sum of money per head for feeding arrangements.

While the meagre breakfast at the Ordinaire was always considered optional (apart from for the newbies) with the preference being to buy proper coffee and croissants from the Company Clubs, they in no way substituted for Lunch and Dinner except for exceptional cases and Company Commanders were expected to ensure that Legionnaires were adequately fed.

I remember when as a new arrival, I had been given some arduous “corvées” (duties). I and some others had been rinsing sea jump parachutes in the Fiume Secco river all day and we had returned late and missed the dinner parade. The “Sergent de Semaine” just put us to work raking the gravel on the Parade Square. The Company Commander is leaving the block, spots me and asks me if I had a good dinner. When I told him that we hadn’t eaten, he went back inside, rifted the Company Duty Sergeant and had us marched over to the cookhouse for dinner. This Officer (a hard man) was absolutely loved by his troops.

Lianos? (spelling). Greek

 

[Condottiere]

Lianos? (spelling). Greek

No. A big plain-speaking, hard-hitting Frenchman.

 

[Harry Skinters]

Not far from the truth...will try to remember the name of the film made about parkour starring some of the original creators once I sober up some

Banlieue 13 ?

 

[LepetitCaporal]

It rings a bell.. will get back on this

Adds: David Belle, stuntman and the creator of the Parkour discipline
There is a site, Parkour Paris

 

[Condottiere]

A striking recruiting poster on the Foreign Legion's official recruitment Facebook page.

 

[Condottiere]

Posted on the Foreign Legion Official Twitter feed: A short clip on the VBMR-L Serval (the VBMR Griffon's little brother) which will equip the light combat units of the French Army including the 11th Parachute Brigade of which 2 REP is a component part.

 

[LepetitCaporal]

V.B.L. Ultima to replace the V.B.L. mk 1
I can't upload pics for some reason

 

[fantassin]

The French do ceremonial events like this pretty well. I notice the band plays 'Robert the Bruce' at about 6.00. @fantassin who is the bloke with the beard in civies reviewing the troops and talking to the veterans? and the cute chick doing the speech at 18.35 next to the two old blokes?

Beardie type was then then PM Edouard Philippe.

He made all the Aussies cry when he spoke at the centennial in 2017. He has forms for those events.

Blood and poetry on western front as Turnbull beaten in battle of the words | David Marr

Who would have thought the Anzac Day opening of a new Monash museum at Villers-Bretonneux in France would turn into a diplomatic incident?

www.theguardian.com

'The earth is his only friend': French prime minister Édouard Philippe's Anzac speech – in full

‘We will never forget,’ says Édouard Philippe while paying tribute to Anzac troops at the Sir John Monash centre opening

www.theguardian.com

 

[par avion]

Beardie type was then then PM Edouard Philippe.

He made all the Aussies cry when he spoke at the centennial in 2017. He has forms for those events.

Blood and poetry on western front as Turnbull beaten in battle of the words | David Marr

Who would have thought the Anzac Day opening of a new Monash museum at Villers-Bretonneux in France would turn into a diplomatic incident?

www.theguardian.com

'The earth is his only friend': French prime minister Édouard Philippe's Anzac speech – in full

‘We will never forget,’ says Édouard Philippe while paying tribute to Anzac troops at the Sir John Monash centre opening

www.theguardian.com

Thanks, but more important, who was the cute chick? She could make me cry if she wanted to.

 

[LepetitCaporal]

Just an acquaintance, nowt serious

 

[fantassin]

The name of the regiment that srecieved the kamakazi attak
(french Paras) ?
When I enlisted... would take a year to write

1er and 9°RCP. All draftees except the officers and most of the NCOs.

 

[fantassin]

I think, and I don’t know exactly so @fantassin may be able to clarify, that it is still 1 year, it’s just that you won’t be able to receive it or something until 2 years of service because of paperwork or something. I don’t remember the clause exactly.

MdN are point based; various activities give you a number of points and when you reach the limit for each grade (bronze, silver, gold) you become eligible. Then the paper work needs to be done.

Once you get an ordre national (Légion d'honneur, ordre national du Mérite) you are no longer eligible to any MdN except those with a citation.

The exact conditions are there (in French)

Décret n° 2014-389 du 29 mars 2014 relatif à la médaille de la défense nationale - Légifrance

Décret n° 2014-389 du 29 mars 2014 relatif à la médaille de la défense nationale

www.legifrance.gouv.fr