So much is wrong from this article, Frenchmen can join the Legion, and the minimum enlistment is 5 years, not 3, the five year minimum is why I did not return my enlistment form to them.
“According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest.”
France says it can commit 20,000 troops within 30 days to a threat. The French army says it counts 121,000 soldiers and can call up 24,000 reservists.
“France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens.”
The Legion is part of the Army and has many Frenchmen.
yefragetuwrabrumuy, post on the thread, I don’t know what that PM meant.