"French"

oh please let's not split hairs about geographical position and the French metropole you cuck

It's a French legion of foreigners

idiot.

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Let me break it down for you OP:

A Legion is a military unit.

A foreign legion is a military unit open for people of other nationalities. Why is that important? Because otherwise most armies of the world are only open for citizen. That's why we say "foreign legion".

Any country of the world could have a foreign legion. Any country in the world could create a military unit open to foreign nationals. So how do we distinguish all the different foreign legions? We add another adjective and that's where french foreign legion comes from. That's how we can distinguish it from the foreign legions of other countries.

Please be trolling.

"French"
"Foreign"
"Legion"

it's is neither, French, nor foreign, nor a legion

>French
They work exclusively for the French state and under the command of French officers.

>Foreign
The grand majority of soldiers in it are foreign, and even the Frenchmen in it (estimated to be about 25%) pretend to be Canadian or Belgian.

>Legion
dictionary.com/browse/legion
>a military or semi-military legion

The FFL fits all parts of its definition. Buttmad Krauts BTFO.

Indeed, there was also a much less famous Spanish Foreign Legion for example.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Legion
>The unit, which was established in January 1920 as the Spanish equivalent of the French Foreign Legion, was initially known as the Tercio de Extranjeros ("Tercio of foreigners")
But because it couldn't attract enough foreigners to stay foreign, the name was over time changed to simply the Spanish Legion.

The FFL manages to consistently remain majority foreign, so it remains a foreign legion.

You're the retard, the "foreign" it because the legion was based was outside France i.e. in foreign territories.

>You're the retard, the "foreign" it because the legion was based was outside France i.e. in foreign territories.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion
>The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831 from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France. Recruits included soldiers from the recently disbanded Swiss and German foreign regiments of the Bourbon monarchy.

I knew a guy who served in the Legion, he told me a third of the soldiers are various Slavs, a third are Arabs and niggers and a third are actual Frenchmen with Swiss and German passports.

First of all, that is a pic of the Spanish foreign legion, french legioraires are not allowed to have beards

Second of all, app 20-30% of all French foreign legiorainaires are French people under false names, and 80% of their officers, especially higher ranking ones, are ethnically French because the frogs are bastards that don't want filthy foreign gunfodder to have too much power

>french legioraires are not allowed to have beards
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military#France
>However, within the Foreign Legion, sappers are traditionally encouraged to grow a large beard. Sappers chosen to participate in the Bastille Day parade are in fact specifically asked to stop shaving so they'll have a full beard when they march down the Champs-Élysées.

Holy fuck, every single post in this thread has been correcting retards. How difficult is it for you morons to doublecheck the shit you're typing? It takes 10 seconds max and prevents you making a fool of yourself.

Why Americans don't have this?
It's fucking free cannon fodder.

1. The Foreign Legion is no longer cannon fodder and hasn't been since WW2.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3546207/The-French-Foreign-Legion-the-last-option-for-those-desperate-to-escape-the-UK.html
They actually reject a lot of applicants from "generation playstation" because they don't fit their standards. A lot of foreign applicants are either though as nails Slavs or veterans from foreign armies who are no longer allowed to serve for some reason (ex-SAS and the like). They're not elites, but they're one of the most competent light infantry units around.

2. America has no need for them, nor did it ever have a tradition of foreigners fighting for them. It's a country of immigration, their immigrants became soldiers. You had Irish legions on both sides of the Civil War for example.

>competent light infantry units around.
infantry is the least respectful branch of any army. literal retards who just do shitty work for the real men.

Do you practice being retarded, or is it genetically inherited?

Do you mean "least respected"?

In either case, you're still wrong.

Infantry is the heart of any army.

"History"
"&"
"Humanities"

It's not supposed to be made up of Frenchmen. It was a "French" military organisation made up of "foreign" soldiers. Whilst it wasn't exactly a legion I think that's more to do with liberty in naming rather than an accurate description. Much like the legion of the united states. If was not specifically built like a legion but it was just a name.

it is grunt work and everybody wants to do something else than this to fill their career

you are talking about regular army here mate

So is the OP kraut, or a lazy Belgian shirker?

Yes.

Americans don't engage their troops in numerical disadvantage. They have no 'canon fodder' per say since they try their best to have 10 times the manpower of the opponent, to limit the casualties. This is the opposite of the FFL (which in French is just called the Foreign Legion, OP) which is made to take any dangerous job regular troops will have a hard time doing.

French

The Legion is loyal to the FRENCH republic

foreign

The majority of the French foreign legion is in fact composed of men from other nationalities

legion

they can call themselves whatever they want

French
foreign
legion