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Above: Legionnaire in Training

Whatever your origins, nationality or religion might be, whatever qualifications you may or may not have, whatever your social or professional status might be, whether you are married or single, the French Foreign Legion offers you a chance to start a new life...

So begins the welcome on the website for the French Foreign Legion.

And across thew world from France, a new Legion of Honor is forming along the border between Thailand and Burma - the new Thai Foreign Legion.

Previous issues of the National Police Gazette described the first two recruits for the Foreign Legion forming and training along the Thai-Burmese border. In this issue, we will profile it's third recruit.

Ringeck is an Anglo-German expat, currently residing in the States. He served as a supply clerk in Somalia, and a convoy transport mechanic in Afghanistan. Frustrated at the waste and corruption of which he was a part, he left the service at the end of his ticket.

Idealistic and excitable, he paces back and forth energetically as he thinks out lou😛 "The past is done, set. Some good things, and many bad. But the future, it is yet to be written. I am looking to be a part of something greater than myself. They say there is no honor among thieves and perhaps military contractors. I say they are right -- and they are wrong. A man chooses to make his own honor, or not. So, I will choose. The Thai Foreign Legion offers us a chance for redemption."

And so while Ringeck and other like him await the bugle call of the Legion, he trains and holds himself in readiness.

This as the Legion itself holds itself in readiness, training, waiting to become fully accepted by the Thai Armed Forces. And the Legion will wait and train patiently. And they will never betray Thailand. That is the oath each Legionnaire must take. It is an oath to Thailand and to the Legion's code of honor. And this legionnaire's code of honor guides him wherever he may be asked to serve, in Thailand or on operations abroad.