Jim Latrache
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But in the end, I could do, I don't know, I think around 20 and between 50 and 100 push-ups because I did so many mistakes.
So mistakes came in handy in my physical things.
What I never learned was my coordinations are not that well.
They're so bad that I was not allowed to throw a hand grenade.
No, no, no, no.
And another thing is that in the Legion, you have tradition of singing because like back in the days when they walked through the desert, they sang a lot of different songs and
No, I never learned to sing.
I never learned it.
I mean, imagine you have a company, 50 soldiers, more than 50% from Eastern Europe, speaking French with a heavily dialect.
Even there, you're the only one that asked to shut the fuck up.
And you have to understand, I was not there to become a pro-soldier.
I was there to work with my fear.
The French Foreign Legion is stooped in history.
Yeah, of course.
Why not?
And you first had a three-week course...
where you learn because the parachute you use is round.
And that means you hit the ground quite heavily, quite hard.
And so you have to like make a roll when you hit the ground.
Yeah.