[coloradan]

Why are they so fearsome? Because the ONLY requirement for joining ... is that one isn’t French.

[Leaning Right]

Back in the 1950s a good portion of the French Foreign Legion were former members of the Nazi Waffen SS. With guys like that, a no-go zone wouldn’t be no-go for every long.

[hanamizu]

Because the ONLY requirement for joining ... is that one isn’t French.

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There are a lot of YouTube videos of the FFL. They do accept French citizens, but they enroll them as citizens of a French-speaking nation like Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, etc. They get French citizenship and a new identity after service. But they are formidable.