Re: Country Training
Although I agree with loktarr regarding the foreign legion, which in my view are the best 'regular' special forces out there, country training is indeed sensitive. I'll spare you my opnions on the exact scores to save us all a heated debate.
Adding 5 points to either the french basic experience or raising that of the legion to +20 would go a long way. They are probably the best trained soldiers around (some 'obscure' special forces units excepted). But I doubt it'll happen.
On the legion, one of the reasons it's so good is that it gets 'lots' of actual combat experience (small scale and bush wars mostly, but still). As I understood it, the french government has to have parliamentary permission to deploy conscripts; to deploy professionals the need no advance approval but need to notify parliament of their deployment fairly quickly and be subject to possible withdrawal of the them by parliament; when it comes to the legion the government can very much do what they want, the only ones they have to tell are the parliamentairy committee on militairy matters and they can be told afterwards and they are not allowed to reveal what they learn in the committee. So there's all likelihood that legionaire's saw quite a bit more action than we know off...
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