Re : Do you have a military background ?
Yep ! That's
my usual background. But it's more often
this one !
And you Mr Bond, except the MI6 and all your exploits in movies, what was yours !?
I spent 2 years "under the flags", as we say here, 1 hour in train far from my home. It was for the Military Police Force (Gendarmerie), the
blue one, the same as you can see on French motorways when you come here !
But I've stayed in an Instruction Center that was also a law enforcement training center where it was more funny, easier to get rank and less risky !
I have to teach each month a new 30 young recruits how to walk and behave as a good military man (making his bed, shiny shoes, shaving, saluting, ranks, ...) !
I had to be a bad sergeant the first 2 weeks to make them cry and become nicer and nicer so all the squad pay me a drink (30 beers !) at the end of the month !
I have to manage their administrative folder, reporting marks and appreciations.
I could give them some lessons about specific Military Police missions as stoping a car and checking the papers or transferring a prisoner.
I could shot 30-50 bullets each month, mostly with Beretta M9 and sometimes with FAMAS, have to prepare guns, blank ammos, food, buses and trucks to have a training war out the base once a month !
I could also give some car, truck and bus driving lessons with double commands vehicles.
And I could give some first aid and team first aid lessons and certified about 60 first aiders and 10 teammate first aiders.
That was a good time even if I got declared unabled to have a carreer because of some asthma, as my first wish !
But I don't regret because I would have to pull out my brain in the rack, to get my helmet on and obey all orders, even the one coming from the Ministry
