Nor is the kepi blanc a babe magnet. "When I went to bars and bistros the last thing I really wanted to admit was that I was in the French Foreign Legion," he says. The physical training was harsh.

CAMP DE CARPIAGNE, France — For almost 200 years, the French Foreign Legion has prided ... nine candidates will ever don the Legion’s trademark white kepi. Applicants must be between 17 ...

French Foreign Legion Capt. Damien Cabal ... who looked strange with his pigtail hanging from beneath his kepi.” The anonymat — the legion’s practice of allowing recruits to enlist under ...

French Foreign Legion, during Exercise Kepi Blanc here, Sept. 1-16. Kepi Blanc, named for the distinctive headgear worn by the Foreign Legion, is a partnered training exercise between the United ...

If the kepi is to be consigned to the hatbox of history, the only other people who wear it will be members of the armed forces, like the French Foreign Legion. The changes will go through over the ...

Thousands of potential recruits knock on the door of the French Foreign Legion every ... of which they formally enter the Legion and get given the coveted kepi. "The French flag becomes your ...

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Since then La Legion Etrangere, with its trademark kepi blanc, has come to symbolise ... Indochina and elsewhere in pursuit of French foreign policy. More recently, legionnaires have served ...

Lawrence J. Franks Jr. quit his job in the U.S. Army, fled the country and secretly enlisted in the elite French Foreign Legion under an assumed name, authorities said. He deployed numerous times ...

Whether you’re looking for a career change or need a new identity after faking your own death, joining the French Foreign Legion might be the path for you. Founded in 1831 partly as a way to ...