Hijacking this thread to talk about the Onedin Line. Whenever this guy barks orders to the ship workers, the specific terminology he uses along with his accent makes me feel like a complete ESL, i can only barely understand him. He's easy enough to understand otherwise when he talks to any of the Onedins.
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>find a gold mine
Getting into the French Guyana part of the Legion is supposedly difficult, they have limited spaces.
>the idea of having to learn french
They'll teach you there, though it won't really be a lot of french, it'll only be enough for you to understand and execute orders. They don't really want recruits to learn a lot of french because that means you will compete with them for higher ranks.
>most recruits are browns
What recruits the Legion gets depends on the time; back after WW2, they got a shit ton of old Nazi German soldiers escaping Germany.
They no longer accept Russians and Ukrainians.
Also, they like and prefer thirdies because people from comfortable first world countries are more likely to desert and fuck off back home if things get dicey; they want people desperate enough to actually stay and work in the shit conditions, mopping floors more often than shooting with rifles.