I will try to answer your question clearly:
The Legion is not a commando but a corp, composed of 10 régiments, 9 Infantery R and 1 airborne R.
Is particular status comes from is creation in 1831, when the french king Louis-Philipe decided that people that want to be legionnaires would not have to give their identity... So a legionnaire could be a man fleeing the justice of his country, a man who want a second start in life...
Now, there are a lot of balkan or east (former Warsaw Pact) mens applying to the legion...
When they engage they sworn fidelity to France and they have a code which I can sum-up :_The mission is sacred,
_ No wounded, dead or weapons can be abandonned
That's why the training is really hard: to continue my exemple, Marines are an elite corp for USA but soldier are US citizen, the legion as not this problem with his soldier...
and so, the french commandos, (grouped in the COS: Special Operations Command) are french and their training is not so deadly, they are trained like in other countrys...
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I precise for the game that they are two points on which I insisted (my first post is not clear I think):
-french country training is (for me) too bad,
-elite groops of EVERY nations are sometimes not enough good in comparison with (because they are the best) english troops...
I gave the legion exemple but what could think american people when Navy SEALs groups have less experience than UK Royal Marines...
And also in the UK OB, that's funny that SAS and SBS groups have the same experiance than RM and Ghurkas!!!
Once again thank you for responding and my excuses for the bad english.
