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Re:Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with ci... by HeavenFox on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:37AM (#25525735)
...whereas three years of service in French Foreign Legion allows you to apply for citizenship, or immediately after you are wounded in battle ("French by spilled blood")
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Re:Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with ci... by roel_v on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:55AM (#25526260)
Serving in the Foreign Legion is not like 'being in the military' in other places...
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Re:Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with ci... by touisteur on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:53AM (#25527040)
Indeed no... Légion étrangère is very often front-line, opex, desert, jungle... A very special and strange military corps that meddled with politics in the 1960s... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_putsch_of_1961 And nowadays they select at the entrance.
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