Alain Alivon

Alain Alivon known under the pseudonym Marius born 23 July 1965 in Marseille is a French military and drill instructor member of the Commandos Marine unit and the French Navy He is mostly known for featuring in the 2005 documentary LÉcole des bérets verts on France 2 in the program Envoyé spécial He later appeared on film and television and publishing his autobiography Alain Alivon spent a difficult childhood at the public assistance of Marseille and a delinquent teenager in the North Quarter of Marseille and Vitrolles He studied law but gave up soon after and committed offences with bad frequentations of the period After a tough custody at the police station a police officer recommended him to start his military service giving him a chance to go through an intelligent person who knew how to talk to me respectfully giving me the good tools He went to Lorient in the department of Morbihan to join the Fusiliers Marins unit of the French Navy which had completely changed his mentality After having accomplished the training tests of the unit he joined the French Navy and became a volunteer for an internship of commando marine He finished major of his promotion top of his graduating class and obtained the green beret At the time spent in the unit he participated in a number of operations especially in Lebanon Djibouti and Ivory Coast and also in France In his 22 years of military service he became an emblematic figure of the Commandos Marine and the Commando of Montfort One of his former instructors nicknamed him Marius because of his Marseille origins He then became a drill instructor testing the new recruits and volunteers to join the Special forces He is shown during that function in 2005 in the documentary LÉcole des bérets verts broadcast on France 2 in the television program Envoyé spécial He retired from service in 2006 The same year he joined the MarseilleFos Port GPMM and became a safety and defence agent of the West port basins In 2016 he again became a drill instructor in the reality program Garde à vous broadcast on M6 Source Article Alain Alivon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30