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ooc; As a former Legionnaire myself I've been toying with this idea for a while and thought it might just be workable;

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Message to the world from Governor Kathy Chung of the Colony of Ollieland

In accordance with our nation's history of accepting settlers from all over the world (see factbook history) our military now intends to set up a "Foreign legion" unit, to be known as Le Legion Etranger d'Ollieland. This force will be between 1,000 and 5,000 strong, depending on the number of volunteers, and will be highly trained and equipped to be used as special forces troops completely independent of the other branches of the military. Volunteers must meet the following criteria.

- Be physically and mentally fit for military service
- Be male
- Be between the ages of 18 and 40
- Be prepared to undertake a five year contract in the service of Ollieland
- Be prepared to forego any allegiance or contact with their previous homeland.
- Be prepared to follow the orders of Ollish officers.

In return for 5 years service we offer the following;

- Regular military rates of pay
- Anonymity if requested

In return for 10 years service we offer;

- A new identity and an Ollish passport at the end of service if requested.

We will take applications from anyone wishing to join and start a new life, but be assured we will investigate your background with your home government. Those with criminal records or criminal pasts, may apply, but will be assessed on an individual basis. Those with previous military experience with a foreign military are especially welcome.

Applications may be made at any Ollish embassy or consulate, or at any Ollish airport or port - just report to a member of the police or port/airport security.

2 Questions:
1) Do you expect to be seeing combat?
2) The Daistallian Defense Forces runs a sabbatical leave program which encourages active duty members to seek employment overseas as mercenaries in order to gain experience. During this period they are not considered to be on active duty, and will not be serving. Would this be acceptable under foregoing allegiance, seeing as said personnel would be returning to active duty afterwards?

If both answers are yes, we can provide a significant number of soldiers with experience (including combat experience for those who have already served ).

2 Questions:
1) Do you expect to be seeing combat?
2) The Daistallian Defense Forces runs a sabbatical leave program which encourages active duty members to seek employment overseas as mercenaries in order to gain experience. During this period they are not considered to be on active duty, and will not be serving. Would this be acceptable under foregoing allegiance, seeing as said personnel would be returning to active duty afterwards?

If both answers are yes, we can provide a significant number of soldiers with experience (including combat experience for those who have already served ).

1 - Yes. The Legion Etranger will be a special forces unit, undertaking "Black" operations and usually acting as pathfinders for any Ollish military operations.

2 - No. We want volunteers who intend to start a new life - the five year contract is for volunteers who either dislike service, Ollish life or who can't "hack it". After undergoing our brutal training, it is doubtful you would want them back anyway.

ooc; Come on, people, heres your chance to get rid of your disgruntled vets, demobbed soldiers, youth street gangs and petty criminals (if someone will give me an explanation of what they are I might even accept Shoobans).

Bumpo.....

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In the burgeoning town of Bedford, just 20 kilometres away from Portland, Sarzonia's financial capital, a group of 100 men assembled at an old high school gym.

"I can't fucking believe it. Fired by the Portland Iron Works! What the fuck?"

"Unemployment's been hard. My checks are going to run out in a month and I've used my last extension from the government. What am I going to do?"

"Hey, wait. There's an ad here from Legion Etranger d'Ollieland. They want volunteers who'll serve with their foreign legion."

"Foreign legion? What the hell? I ain't cut out for military service. Even the Army won't take my fat ass."

"I'm not going to some podunk country to sign up for any foreign legion."

"Carter, what do you have here? You're unemployed, your partner's left you for another man. Your house is being foreclosed. This will give you an opportunity for a new life. Chance to start over. Maybe even a new identity."

The men kept talking and arguing among themselves until seventy of the 100 men assembled to launch a massive strike in front of the Portland Iron Works corporate headquarters decided instead to join the Ollieland legion. As the pointman for the group, Calvin Finley, until two weeks ago the foreman at Dock 6 in Somerset City's PIW shipyard, picked up his phone and called.

"I have a group of 70 men who are interested in signing up. How do we make arrangements to travel to Ollieland and then join this," he asked when he got a live person on the phone. He stared at the wall where a defiled photo of Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.), the managing director of the Portland Iron Works, whom her now ex-employees began to refer to as the "Ice Queen" or "Dyke Dragon Lady" while he waited for the answer.

"We can make araangements for a Colonial Airlines passenger airship to pick you up from Sarzonia with the agreement of the Sarzonian government. If they do not agree, then it would be best for you to make your own way here and report to any government building", replied the operator. First recruit, eh, she thought, wondering if these guys really knew what they were letting themselves in for. She filled out the report on her screen and e-m,ailed it to the DoD.

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Colonel Conrad Schwartz was glad of his second chance since forced retirement from the Colonial Marine Corps. He adjusted his eye-patch (it was still uncomfortable) and rechecked the e-mail from the comms centre. Seventy Sarzonians. Dock workers, none the less. It was a promising start. He started typing his own request to the Department of Foriegn Affairs.

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Message to the government of Sarzonia

Greetings friends! In accordance with our Foriegn Legion recruitment policy we would like to know if the following people have ever been convicted of any crime within Sarzonia. If you do not wish to release this information we will understand and not press the issue.

Your friends in Ollieland.

Message to Ollieland
From; Warta Endorean Military HQ, Personell Affairs
To; Ollieland Department of Defence

We have selected a group of 500 young men (between the ages of 18-21) who have volunteered. All of them have endured the training of Warta Endor's Navy Special Forces and are the elite. Some of them have combat experience but it isn't much. Due to budget cuts and reorginization have they been discharged. They currently have no work and are free of any criminal record. They will serve the 10 year contract.

All of the men are very good in executing amphibious operations and infiltration via sea. They are also Jungle War experts.

We, and they, eagerly await your reply.

Field Marshall Lao

Message to Ollieland
From; Warta Endorean Military HQ, Personell Affairs
To; Ollieland Department of Defence

We have selected a group of 500 young men (between the ages of 18-21) who have volunteered. All of them have endured the training of Warta Endor's Navy Special Forces and are the elite. Some of them have combat experience but it isn't much. Due to budget cuts and reorginization have they been discharged. They currently have no work and are free of any criminal record. They will serve the 10 year contract.

All of the men are very good in executing amphibious operations and infiltration via sea. They are also Jungle War experts.

We, and they, eagerly await your reply.

Field Marshall Lao

Thank you. With your agreement we will send a Colonial Airlines passenger airship to collect these men.

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Ollieland,
A recent prison-break has resulted in the recapture of over 5000 life-serving prisoners in for assorted crimes. Minus the dead and wounded, we are able to send 2431 men to join your legion. A few have military experience, and around half have passed the first hurdle of killing someone. All are physically in good condition, and we know of no severe mental disorders. They are aged 18 to 49 and given the choice of Ollieland or incarceration, they will undoubtebly swear allegience to your legion in the hope of a new start.

Concremo


ooc: being concremian, and all, they arent human but are indistinguishable without xrays etc. The main give-away is the teeth, but in their situation we dont expect them to smile much.

Ollieland,
A recent prison-break has resulted in the recapture of over 5000 life-serving prisoners in for assorted crimes. Minus the dead and wounded, we are able to send 2431 men to join your legion. A few have military experience, and around half have passed the first hurdle of killing someone. All are physically in good condition, and we know of no severe mental disorders. They are aged 18 to 49 and given the choice of Ollieland or incarceration, they will undoubtebly swear allegience to your legion in the hope of a new start.

Concremo


ooc: being concremian, and all, they arent human but are indistinguishable without xrays etc. The main give-away is the teeth, but in their situation we dont expect them to smile much.

Please be advised-
1 - We will not excpt any man over 40 (see above).
2 - We will not except any man convicted of killing more than 3 people.
3 - We will not except any man convicted of crimes of a sexual nature.
4 - We will not except any man convicted of crimes against minors.
5 - We will not except any man with any mental or psychological defects.
6 - We will only except men of their own free will. If these men refuse to join on arrival in Ollieland they will be sent back directly to their homeland.

If this is agreed, please let us know how many recruits you will be sending and we will arrange transport to ollieland for them.

Ollieland,
That leaves a total of 1786 voluteers ready for service, as most were in for almost-lethal crimes such as armed robbery. We have given them basic arms and obstacle course training so your instructors dont feel too patronising.
We do not wish for any of the soldiers to ever return to concremo. They have forsaken their very nationality and if they return, they will be as dead as their victims.

Concremo

Jagonia has selected 2000 men of the Jagonian Imperial Army to serve the Legion Etranger d'Ollieland. Some of them have had special training in the Näusskorps, and as such are experts at mountainous operations. Be warned, however, that these certain recruits have been chosen as they have had previous offences, mainly insubordination. They have "volunteered" and will be ready for departure in a week, if they are accepted.

Sergeant Euan Mackay couldn't believe his eyes. In his hands he held a pink redundancy notice, with an appended certificate of honourable discharge from service and severance package.

"Since when the fuck do the Defence Forces fire people?" he muttered as the walked from the senior non-commissioned officers' quarters. The lieutenant likely must know something about this, he surmised. It was true the Defence Forces had been reducing the intake of new conscripts over the past five years, but Mackay never thought he would have been affected.

"Twenty fucking years of service, a decent disciplinary record, and I get this shite," he groused as he closed in on the company's headquarters. He was immediately greeted by another strange sight.

Lieutenant Pickering wore a similar, furious look and was unwittingly crushing a pink slip in his hand. "Damnable sodding bastards," the officer muttered, giving a rubbish bin a solid left boot, sending the steel cylinder a fair few metres strewing garbage behind it.

The two men glared at one another and immediately recognised one another in the other's expression.

"So much for the bloody Marines," Pickering announced.

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147 men formerly of the 34th Royal Isselmere-Nieland Marines Landing Battalion will enlist in the Légion Étranger d'Ollieland.

Jagonia has selected 2000 men of the Jagonian Imperial Army to serve the Legion Etranger d'Ollieland. Some of them have had special training in the Näusskorps, and as such are experts at mountainous operations. Be warned, however, that these certain recruits have been chosen as they have had previous offences, mainly insubordination. They have "volunteered" and will be ready for departure in a week, if they are accepted.

Transport will be arranged for these men from the Colonial Air Force Transport Wing. We must inform you, however, that we will only accept true volunteers. If upon arrival in Ollieland, and therefore free from Jagonian influence, these men decide not to sign up, they will be immediately returned to Jagonia.

Sergeant Euan Mackay couldn't believe his eyes. In his hands he held a pink redundancy notice, with an appended certificate of honourable discharge from service and severance package.

"Since when the fuck do the Defence Forces fire people?" he muttered as the walked from the senior non-commissioned officers' quarters. The lieutenant likely must know something about this, he surmised. It was true the Defence Forces had been reducing the intake of new conscripts over the past five years, but Mackay never thought he would have been affected.

"Twenty fucking years of service, a decent disciplinary record, and I get this shite," he groused as he closed in on the company's headquarters. He was immediately greeted by another strange sight.

Lieutenant Pickering wore a similar, furious look and was unwittingly crushing a pink slip in his hand. "Damnable sodding bastards," the officer muttered, giving a rubbish bin a solid left boot, sending the steel cylinder a fair few metres strewing garbage behind it.

The two men glared at one another and immediately recognised one another in the other's expression.

"So much for the bloody Marines," Pickering announced.

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147 men formerly of the 34th Royal Isselmere-Nieland Marines Landing Battalion will enlist in the Légion Étranger d'Ollieland.

These recruits will be most welcome, and with your agreement we will send a Colonial Airlines passenger airship to collect them. However, we feel it our duty to inform Lieutenant pickering and any other officers willing to enlist that they will be enlisting as Legionnaires, equal in rank to the men they formerly commanded.

Transport will be arranged for these men from the Colonial Air Force Transport Wing. We must inform you, however, that we will only accept true volunteers. If upon arrival in Ollieland, and therefore free from Jagonian influence, these men decide not to sign up, they will be immediately returned to Jagonia.

Do not worry, they will sign up. We have insured it.

Do not worry, they will sign up. We have insured it.

This is most reassuring. The men will be collected by Colonial Airforce Transport airships.

Within ten minutes of receiving this news, most of the Blood Moon Royal Postal System was flooded with enough paper to account for the dissaperances of a number of fairly common species of tree.
Most of the badly spelled and much smudged letters are along the lines of:
I r want to join ther forn armie. I got own [insert bladed weapon of your choice] nd [insert small firearm of your choice], plus sum armer. Speke Anglush.

The BMG govornment would like to send a few of its Royal Guards (sort of Secret Service, Goblin style) to join this organization for the full term. Things have been a bit slow lately and the new recruits arent getting combat experience.
In return we would be happy to supply/pay for some part of the weapons and training, or possibly provide non-conventional combat training for your troops.

An assortment of men from the Daistallian Defense Forces, with fresh discharge papers, begin arriving at Le Legion Etranger d'Ollieland recruiting stations (either in country, abroad, or both) in small groups, and applying. Most have extensive service records, both with the DDF and assorted Daistallian PMCs. Within a period of about a week, 531 men have applied.

OOC: Yes, they are all fully discharged.

Within ten minutes of receiving this news, most of the Blood Moon Royal Postal System was flooded with enough paper to account for the dissaperances of a number of fairly common species of tree.
Most of the badly spelled and much smudged letters are along the lines of:


The BMG govornment would like to send a few of its Royal Guards (sort of Secret Service, Goblin style) to join this organization for the full term. Things have been a bit slow lately and the new recruits arent getting combat experience.
In return we would be happy to supply/pay for some part of the weapons and training, or possibly provide non-conventional combat training for your troops.

Firstly, any recruits with former military experience must be fully discharged with no claims on them from their homeland's military, and they must be full volunteers - you can't order them to join up.

Secondly, although we have accepted non-humans we must take the request of goblin volunteers under advisement for the time being. After consultation with military superiors we will get back to you.

OOC - How tall are goblins and do they have natural night vision - I might have an idea for a tunnel fighting unit....

An assortment of men from the Daistallian Defense Forces, with fresh discharge papers, begin arriving at Le Legion Etranger d'Ollieland recruiting stations (either in country, abroad, or both) in small groups, and applying. Most have extensive service records, both with the DDF and assorted Daistallian PMCs. Within a period of about a week, 531 men have applied.

OOC: Yes, they are all fully discharged.

We would be happy to accept these volunteers. A passenger airship from Colonial Airlines is enroute to collect them.

Firstly, any recruits with former military experience must be fully discharged with no claims on them from their homeland's military, and they must be full volunteers - you can't order them to join up.

Secondly, although we have accepted non-humans we must take the request of goblin volunteers under advisement for the time being. After consultation with military superiors we will get back to you.

OOC - How tall are goblins and do they have natural night vision - I might have an idea for a tunnel fighting unit....
OOC:
Goblins are between 3-4 feet tall, on average. They dont have night vision (any more than humans, anyway) but work well in the dark in any case.

IC:
Very well, its your legion, after all.

We would be happy to accept these volunteers. A passenger airship from Colonial Airlines is enroute to collect them.

Thank you. However, as noted, most have already made their way to recruiting stations.

OOC: I'm assuming you have an equivillant to Malmousque in Marseille and other such recruiting centers. These volunteers should be showing up at the nearest one to your Aubagne.

OOC:
Goblins are between 3-4 feet tall, on average. They dont have night vision (any more than humans, anyway) but work well in the dark in any case.

IC:
Very well, its your legion, after all.

After consultation with senior military and government forces it has been decided that goblin volunteers would be very welcome. However, as with all volunteers, they must be fully discharged and your military must have no claim on them. Once signed up they would be considered Ollish citizens for the duration of their contract.

Thank you. However, as noted, most have already made their way to recruiting stations.

OOC: I'm assuming you have an equivillant to Malmousque in Marseille and other such recruiting centers. These volunteers should be showing up at the nearest one to your Aubagne.

We have recruiting centres at most of the international ports and airports in Ollieland. Alternativly, a volunteer may sign up at any police station or military base. Our central training facility, known as "The Farm", is located outside the town of Falouse in the east of the nation.

We have recruiting centres at most of the international ports and airports in Ollieland. Alternativly, a volunteer may sign up at any police station or military base. Our central training facility, known as "The Farm", is located outside the town of Falouse in the east of the nation.

OOC: I figured you would. These volunteers are showing up at various recruiting centers.

After consultation with senior military and government forces it has been decided that goblin volunteers would be very welcome. However, as with all volunteers, they must be fully discharged and your military must have no claim on them. Once signed up they would be considered Ollish citizens for the duration of their contract.
Perfect.
It is advised that training involving any sort of explosives be conducted at a long distance. Preferably with a pair of powerful binoculars and a megaphone.

Perfect.
It is advised that training involving any sort of explosives be conducted at a long distance. Preferably with a pair of powerful binoculars and a megaphone.

Thankyou for your response. If you can give us details of how many volunteers you have we will arrange for their collection by Colonial Airforce airship transport.

OOC - Binoculars and a megaphone? Why have I got the distinct feeling I'll regret this.......

We have taken a look at the Goblins and selected exactly one hundred of the best. They are currently housing at Gundabad Airport. Any time your ready to pick them up would be great.

(OOC:
Dont worry, they only blow themselves up on purpose in battle :))

We have taken a look at the Goblins and selected exactly one hundred of the best. They are currently housing at Gundabad Airport. Any time your ready to pick them up would be great.

(OOC:
Dont worry, they only blow themselves up on purpose in battle :))

Many thanks. A Colonial Air Force airship transport is enroute as we speak.