The French Foreign Legion Is Still A Place To Run To

Adjutant Chef Alex, 43, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who is to receive a fifth citation for valour, looks out over the hills of Surobi, Kabul. Picture: Jeremy Kelly

You Can Run, And You Can Hide, In France's Elite Fighting Force, The Foreign Legion -- The Scotsman

WHEN Corporal James walked in on his fiancée sleeping with another man, he threw him through a second-storey window and beat him with a car wrench until the police arrived.

Aged 22, the former US Navy radio operator was facing seven years in jail for a brutal, and by his own account, frenzied assault.

But on 8 March, 2007, three days before he was due to stand trial, he packed a change of clothes and some cigarettes, said goodbye to his family in the US and flew to Paris to start a new life.

Today, he is on his third operational tour of Afghanistan – but this time with the French Foreign Legion.

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My Comment: This type of life is only limited to a few .... to wash your hands of your past and to start a new life elsewhere .... as I said .... this type of life is only limited to a few.

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